God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology

deriving our value and contentment from our rootedness in relationship, in our connection with each other and with all of creation.

Jewish prayer is a resilient discipline reminding us of the bounty of being alive and that we are called to embody God’s image.

In such durations and sizes, the only effective system of human relation and expression (constrained by our scientific knowledge) is the five M’s: math, meditation, metaphor, music, and myth.

This realm of suffering is the logical manifestation of dynamism and change. The only alternative, a world of static eternity, is one that few of us would choose—even if it meant embracing an alternative that also brought suffering and death.

can be both father and son, just not to the same person. Process thinkers apply the notion of dipolarity to God and to God’s creation.

chaos isn’t something. It isn’t a thing at all—it is absence, potentiality, no-thing. Call it tohu va-vohu, call it an eternal sea of quantum uncertainty; regardless, chaos does not raise the issue of dualism because it isn’t anything—it is the lack of any existence whatsoever. All creation comes from God, who is the sole Creator. Whatever is creat

For Jonas, Diaspora is not a matter of geography; it is a matter of existential distance from life lived truly. In rabbinic parlance, one might say that we are no longer capable of observing God’s will completely.

Your obligation is to fashion lives and communities that reflect these commandments through the core values they seek to establish—human dignity, justice, compassion, holiness.

What an amazing heritage that recounts the tale of a tzaddik, one of the righteous, who thinks that rocking a baby to sleep is more important than leading services!