God does not and cannot know the future, because the future has not yet been decided. In choosing to create, God made a world that has the capacity to make choices, too.

distilled ideas, but a spiritual-ethical discipline that retains the capacity to elevate consciousness, heighten compassion, and inspire righteousness.

The conflict is basic: a God who possesses unlimited power and knows everything yet to come could have chosen to fashion a very different world, or else this is the best of all possible worlds.

Hans Jonas teaches that mortality is the gift the living give to the future. The wonder of life, awesome and terrible, is that it renews itself constantly, by sloughing off the old and embracing the new. Jonas calls that natality, the way life is renewed through the birth of new, young individuals and a series of new generations.

God not only dwells in the world, but invites all creation, and the human creature, into relationship.

In Jewish religious understanding, ritual matters because it generates ethical seriousness; it creates a pedagogy of goodness and an agenda of grateful inclusion.

Each life—and every life event—extends beyond itself, connecting to what came before and what will come afterward, to our own locality and to the cosmos as a whole.

Life is about learning to listen, reaching for hope, aiming high, and then daring to act.

Process Theology opens our eyes to a biblical-rabbinic-kabbalistic view of God as relational and loving. “I am with you, declares the Holy One” (Haggai 1:13), working in, with, and through us to bring order to the chaos in our lives and societies, giving us the strength and insight to know how to struggle for health, connection, and justice.