Current Articles
Reflecting on Big Questions1. Too Much Conviction:
A Problem with Evangelism GO 2. God and the Sendai Earthquake GO 3. What Do Process Thinkers Believe? Twenty Key Ideas (English and Chinese)GO 4. The World is a Reflection of the Heart Learning from (Half) a Chinese Saying GO 5. The Big Questions: Melodies without Closure GO 6. Comparing Whitehead and Chinese Thought: Confucianism, Taoism, Marxism GO 7. What is the purpose of life? Wisdom, Compassion, Creativity GO 8. Washing Dishes and Other Sacred Acts A Brief Introduction to Ultimate Reality GO 9. Jesus beyond Christianity: Seeker of Wisdom and Friend to the Powerless GO 10. I Believe in Big Love(大爱) Letter to a Chinese Exchange Student GO 11. A Letter to Whitehead From a Christian in Beijing GO 12. We Will Wonder, Too Buried Questions and Pure Minds GO 13."I Keep Dancing” Whiteheadian Reflections On Harmony and Hybridity GO 14. One Tree Doesn't Make a Forest; One Forest Cannot Replace a Tree: Reflections on the Postmodern Self GO 15. Colors are What Feelings Look Like: Guidance from Whitehead and Tibetan Buddhism GO 16. Six Tips for Thinking about Religion: Letter to a Chinese Exchange Student GO 17. Wouldn’t It Be Nice if Christians Became Taoists? Hope for the Emerging Christian Church GO 18. Can We Love People Who Harm Us? Even if they Harm People We Love?GO 19. 他者的声音--天赐之福 GO 20. Easter Morning Reflections For People of All Faiths and No (Institutionalized) Faith GO 21. The Fire is Raging. Are you Afraid? Prayer for a Daffodil GO 22. Creation through Loving kindness: A Jewish Appreciation of Process Theism GO 23. Every Parent Deserves a Nobel Prize Twelve Tips for Postmodern Parenting GO 24. Becoming – East and West A Brief Meditation on Buddhism and Judaism GO 25. What Difference Does Prayer Make? The Value of Prayer for People Who are Religious and People Who are Not GO 26. Religious Atheism and Process Theology A Dialogue GO 27. Can We Find God in Organized Religion? GO 28. The Improvising Christian Finding Your Inner Coltrane GO 29. Finding God and Family In a Disaster Preparedness Team GO 30. Elliot is Brahman Each Actuality is a Face of the Ultimate Web GO 31. Faith and the Stock Market: A Reflection by John B. Cobb, Jr. GO 32. Responding to the Stock Market Crisis: Faith and the Book of Revelation GO 33. The Economics of Happiness versus the Economics of GDP GO 34. Confucius, Whitehead, and the Pheasant A Brief Comment on Analects 10:27 GO 35. Freedom and the Dao (English and Chinese) GO 36. The Analects of Process: Reflections on Mencius and Xunzi GO 37. Responding to the Stock Market Crisis: Faith and the Book of Revelation (English and Chinese) GO 38. A Different View of Jesus Jesus in the Lotus Position GO 39. Smiling at Strangers Finding Confucian Virtues In United Airline Flight Attendants GO 40. Video Games in a Postmodern World Addiction, Recreation, and Re-Creation GO 41. Coldness Vs. Warmness ≠ 18 Vs. 1 Meditation by a Chinese Student GO 42. 时代需要“依存”哲学 ----“小悦悦事件”引发的哲学思考 GO 43. The Death of Xiao Yueyue Can We Call Back our Souls? GO 44. Does God Know the Future in Advance? Biblical Support for Open Theism GO 45. Where are God's Hands? The Parable of the Good Samaritan GO 46. What Can Americans Learn from Confucianism? A Whiteheadian Appreciation of the Confucian Lifestyle GO 47. Small but Included in the Milky Way: Think Galactically, Act Locally GO 48. 20. Merry Christmas, China! Finding God in Small Places GO 49. Gratitude, Connectedness, and Awe: The Spiritual Side of Sustainability GO 50. Prayer and Planetarity: Prayerful Inclusions of the Web of Life GO 51. Trust in Beauty: Gratefulness, Faith, and Celebrating the Temporary GO 52. Dear Grandpa, Can We Talk? It's Not America's World Anymore GO 53. Happiness: The Sweet Burden GO 54. Sadness and Beauty: Whitehead's God and Japanese Wisdom GO 55. Zen and the Trinity GO 56. Easter: A Reflection by John B. Cobb, Jr. GO |
Food Culture and Food Traditions1. Eating Together:
Body, Soul and Earth GO 2. Soup Night: American Style: The Many Become One But Not the Same GO 3. Tea Leaf Egg: A Recipe and a Story, With a Whiteheadian Reflection GO 4. Korean Bibimbab: The Jazzic Aesthetics of Food Hybridity GO 5. The Beauty of Porridge: The Laba Festival, a Nursery Rhyme, and a little Whitehead (English and Chinese) GO 6. Nothing Can Be More Delicious Than Jiaozi: Recipe, Stories, and a Whiteheadian Reflection (English and Chinese) GO 7. Sacred Fudge: Family Recipes as Context for LoveGO 8. The Spiritual Meaning of “Delicious” Enjoying a Meal in Hubei, ChinaGO 9. “Guò Zǎo” and Hot-and-dry Noodles ----A Glimpse of the Food Culture of Wuhan, China (English and Chinese) GO 10. Finding God in Rice: “밥은 하늘입니다.” A Reflection on Korean Culture, Hybridity, and the Religion of Life GO 11. Every Meal is Thanksgiving Gratitude to the Farmer, Gratitude to the Earth 怀着感恩的心 吃每一顿饭 GO 12. American Chili and Chinese BBQ: Creating an East-West Culture GO 13. Spinach in a Hot Pot Reflections on Food and Identity GO 13. Third Culture Videos: Salvation by Food, Music, and Storytelling (English and Chinese) GO 14. Ní hǎo péngyou, nǐ shì nǎ guó rén? The Kingdom of God. a Chinese Beer Garden GO 15. Process Theology and Food: It Tastes So Good Already GO Ecological Civilization1. Beyond Quarterly Consciousness
A Reflection on Time, Energy, and Hope GO 2. The Tao of Sustainability The Harmonious Society in Whiteheadian Perspective GO 3. Ecological Civilization Four Needed Changes GO 4. Recipe for a Healthy Community: Enjoyable in Any Setting GO 5. Dogs and Divinity The Presence of God in Animals GO 6. The Metaphysics of Cyberspace And the Creativity of Computer Culture GO 7. Remembering Chinese Wisdom Gardening as Engaged Education GO 8. How Much is Enough? A Middle Class Family in Harbin, China GO 9. Life without Air Conditioning Keeping Cool the Natural Way in Wuhan, China GO 10. Frogs Croaking All Night and a Strong Sense of Home Balancing Urban and Rural Values GO 11. Children in a Burning House The Challenge for China of Building an Ecological Civilization GO 12. Animals and Animality Reflections on the Art of Jan Harrison GO 12. Mentored by the Guadalupe River Finding God in Water and Dogs GO 13. A Theology of Fresh Tomatoes: Reflections on Gardening, Community, and Prayer GO 14. Dreams of a Hummingbird: We All Search for Beauty,It's Part of the Will to Live GO 15. Gary Paul Nabhan: Food for Life GO 16. God and Beauty in the Galapagos Islands GO 17. Talking Bacteria: A Theology of Microbes GO 18. Panentheism and Plankton GO 19. Oceanic Theology: Wisdom of Sea Creatures GO 20. Wendell Berry, John Cobb, and Community GO |
Jazz1. God sets down the melody:
we offer it back to God GO 2. Priesthood of All Listeners: Finding Faith in a Jazz Bar GO 3. The Spiritual Vocation of a Jazz Singer: Exploring the Spirit with Kurth Ellin GO 4. The Mind of Jazz Listening, Creativity, and Flexibility GO 5. How Jazz Changed my Life: Finding God in a Strange and Distant Place GO 6. Thank You Duke Ellington: Your Music is What Improvisation Sounds Like GO 7. Worship and Improvisation: Reflections on Jazz and Christian Homiletics GO 8. Jazz and the Courage of Novelty A Whiteheadian Reflection on John Coltrane and David Braid GO 9. Who Cares and So What? A Way of Life in a Jazz Key GO 10.. Deep Calls to Deep A Meditation on Jazz and Prayer GO 11. Let the Dead Bury the Dead How a Jazz Festival illustrates Life’s Eros GO 12. Tradition and Novelty The Christian Church as Jazz Ensemble GO 13. Jazz Drummer Jerry Granelli: A Whiteheadian Appreciation GO 14. The Shapeshifter: Jack Sheldon's Jazz GO 15. Beethoven Meets Jimi Hendrix: The Pure Intensity of Jazz Pianist Eric Lewis GO |
Other Kinds of Music1. Between Two Strings:
Hybridity, Suffering, and the Healing Power Of the Korean Haegum GO 2. Music is What Feelings Sound Like: A Whiteheadian Approach to Popular Music GO 3. The Blues as Phantom Limbs: The Blues are what Pain and Hope Feel Like GO 4. Music as a World Religion Hip Hop in Rural China GO 5. Softer Than a Sigh: Popular Music as Theology for people who aren't necessarily religious GO 6. Why Rap? Hip Hop, Whitehead, and the Novelty of Rapping GO 7. A Restaurant In my Heart: Chinese Popular Music as Catalyst for Spiritual Reflection GO 8. Does Anything Last Forever? Permanence, Beauty, and Freebird GO 9. The Hip-Hop Impulse: The Globalization of Novelty and Creative Self-Definition GO 10. Can Atheists Sing at Funerals? A Meditation on Music and Death GO 11. Do You Believe in Magic? A Visit with Jerry Yester of the Lovin' Spoonful GO 12. The Sounds of Harbin, China Listening to Cultural Heartbeats GO 13. Do You Believe in Magic? A Visit with Jerry Yester of the Lovin' Spoonful GO 14 What is a Troubador? The Life and Times of Chris Milam GO 15. Questioning the World The Music and Art of Anthony Snape (English and Chinese) GO 16. Gatekeeper's Prayer Response to Brett Dennen's Song Heaven GO 17. We Brave Bee Stings: The Music of Thao Nguyen and its Quirky Wisdom GO 18. The Enduring Popularity of Elvis Presley GO 19. Evelyn Glennie: Listening as Touching GO 20. Is Hope Contageous? Dancing Badly with Matt Harding GO |
Movies1. Seven Days in Utopia:
A Film Review by Bruce G. Epperly GO 2. Come and See: Reflections on Jazz and True Grit GO 3. How Can We Teach Like Maria? Education, Whitehead, and the Sound of Music GO 4. The God Who Adjusts, A Review of The Adjustment Bureau GO 5. Enacting Our Lives Bit by Bit Review of The King’s Speech GO 6. Nanking! Nanking! 南京!南京! Softer but Closer: The Secret behind the Eyes GO 7. My Parents Didn't Raise Me, My Grandparents Did: Why Chinese are Turning to Process PhilosophyGO |
Family, Friends, and Mentors1. Friends, Families, and Mentors:
Where Education Begins but Does Not End GO 2. Pine, Bamboo, and Blossom: Learning from My Grandfather in China GO 3. The Live Ugly Team and the Cruel Sister: The Challenges and Joys of High School GO 4. Taking On the Hurts of Orphans: Creative Transformation through Volunteering GO 5. Confucian Scholar, Christian, and Guitarist: Remembering my Grandfather in Korea GO 6. And Me with my Blonde Hair: Postmodern Curiosity in China GO 7. Two Mentors, Two Styles, and the Multifarious World (English and Chinese) GO 8. The Tao of Grandparenting “Thou saucy clay-brained fustilarian” GO 9. Friendships in Airports: Holy Communion for Seekers Like Me GO 10. My Father-아빠 Filial Piety (孝, 효)and a Daughter’s Love GO 11. Hungarian, American, Christian, and Buddhist Multiple Identities in a Postmodern World GO 12. Wet time: My Bluestone Story (English and Chinese) GO 13. Baseball and Mysticism The Magic and Ecstasy of Flesh GO 14. Mothers Across Oceans: The Greatest Love is Wordless GO 15. Third Spaces Cross-Cultural Communities through Food, Music, and Stories GO 16. What Really Matters? Metaphysics for the Welfare of Children GO 17. Tennis as a Koan: Reflections from Harbin, China GO 18. Mourning my Father: The Confucian Way in Process Perspective GO 19. Football: It's About the Hitting GO 20. That's Me Dancing, On the Left Reflecting on a Wedding With help from Whitehead GO 21. Fishing with My Father: Mutual Transformation by a River GO 22. Why Football? Mindful Acting in Concert with Others (English and Chinese) GO 23. A Different Kind of Harmony American Football in Chinese Perspective (English and Chinese) GO 24.The Dao (道) of Basketball Wisdom for East and West GO 25. Spring Festival and Christmas: A Reflection on Harmony and Love GO |
Science and Religion1. Learning to Love Science:
A Chinese Student’s Story GO 2. Creativity East and West: Qi (气) as the Essence of the Universe (English and Chinese) GO 3. Whitehead and Evolutionary Theory Saying "Yes" to Evolution and "Yes" to God GO 4. Whitehead and Relativity Physics, Mathematics, and Metaphysics GO 5. Whitehead and Mind-Brain Relations Psychology and Physiology Connected GO 6. Zero is the Smile of “the Fifth Aunt”, Chinese Girl Discovers the Beauty of Mathematics (English and Chinese) 7. Shining the Light of Science on Love A Fresh Possibility for the Future GO 8. At Home in the Milky Way: Think Galactically, Act Gratefully GO 9. Biochemistry and Beauty: Shamanism, Theology, and Molecular Biology GO |
Language Study1. Learning English, A Part of My Life:
An Adventure in Humanity, Too (English and Chinese) GO 2. 聪明 as Multiple Intelligence: Gaining Wisdom from Chinese Characters GO 3. “知音”(zhī yīn) and Musical Friendship: Gaining wisdom from Chinese characters GO 4. Language Learning: An Adventure in Multi-Colored Thinking (English and Chinese) GO 5. Why One American Learns Chinese An Adventure in Humanity GO 6. The Creative Transformation of Languages: From Translation to Novelty GO 7. In the Beginning is the Listening Learning from a Chinese Character 聪 GO |
Buddhist-Christian Explorations1. A More Open Way of Being Religious GO
2. Why Christians Turn to Buddhism GO 3. Can a Christian Be a Buddhist, Too? One Person's Story GO 4. The Listening Side of Love: For People Who Talk Too Much (English and Chinese)GO 5. Adam and Eve Receive Marriage Counseling: A Whiteheadian Parable (English and Chinese) GO 6. Following Christ as Openness to Surprise: A Swiss Pastor Finds Wisdom in Zen and Jazz GO 7. Eight Hard Questions A Korean Pastor Has His Doubts GO 8. Can a Christian Believe in No-Self? GO 9. The Withness of the Body Whitehead and Zen Meditation GO 10. The Bible and Zen Meditation How Silence and Empathy can help Ministers Prepare Sermons GO 11. A Cup of Tea A Zen Story and a Whiteheadian Response GO 12. Is That So? A Zen Story and a Whiteheadian Response GO 13. I Need to Be Alone A Whiteheadian Commentary on a Zen Story GO 14. What Does Jesus Look Like? A Biblical Interpretation GO 15. Diary of an Arrested Priest Following Christ while Occupying Wall Street GO 16. Holy Infant so Tender and Mild In Honor of the Tiny God GO |
Healing Arts1. Beauty is a Verb
The Poetics of Disability GO 2. Where is God in Alzheimer's Disease? Becoming Part of God's Memory GO 3. Medicine East and West: Combining Two Traditions GO 4. On Death and Dying: An East-West Approach GO 5. Curing and Healing: An East-West Approach GO 6. Delightfully Familiar, Delightfully New Tai Ji as a Constructively Postmodern Practice GO 7. Medicine with a Soft Touch The Role of Loving Hands in the Healing Arts GO 8. Some Sort of New Life Finding Healing within Illness and Trauma GO 9. When Your Child Is Seriously Ill: A Constructive Postmodern Approach GO 10. Where is God in Mental Illness? GO 11. The Wind is Blowing The Presence of God in Autism GO 12. 一本充满后现代智慧的养生书 读中里巴人的《求医不如求己》 GO 13. Whitehead and Tai Ji (太极): A Chinese Student in America Reclaims the Wisdom of His Tradition GO 14 . 中国式道德疗法 ----一个有待深入探讨的课题 GO 15. Do Miracles Occur? The Reality and Importance of the Astonishing GO 16. Gratitude After a Heart Attack and Spreading Peace After a Stroke GO Education1. On the Real Problems of Curriculum Reform
In China's Primary and Secondary Schools GO 2. Education East and West: Beauty and the Harmonious Society (English and Chinese) GO 3.The Chinese College Entrance Examination: One Student’s Story GO 4. When Headache Becomes Adventure: Dancing with English with Help from a Teacher (English and Chinese) GO 5. English in China Today (English and Chinese) GO 6. My Story of Teaching English in China (English and Chinese) GO 7. The Coffee Shop as Context for Creativity : Reflections from a Harbin, China GO 8. FEELS A Constructive Postmodern Idea On Curriculum and Education (English and Chinese) GO 9. Open-Source Learning and Process Philosophy: Free Online Global Education GO 10. Open-Source Learning and Process Philosophy: Free Online Global Education GO |
Jesus, Jazz, and Buddhism1. Welcome from Jay McDaniel GO
2. Jesus, Jazz, and Buddhism GO 3. East-West Thinking GO 4. Ecopoetics, Confucius, and Collage GO 5. Becoming Chinese GO 6. The Religion of Daily Life GO Whitehead Studies1. Who is Alfred North Whitehead? GO
2. Concrescence as the Face of the Other Whitehead, Ethics, and a Little Buddhism (English and Chinese) GO 3. The Many Become One and are Increased by One Whitehead's Understanding of Process (English and Chinese) GO 4. A Neuroscientific Love Story GO 5. Life on Other Planets and This One, Too A Whiteheadian Appreciation GO 6. 过程之美——2010年北京第5届中美过程暑期班印象 GO 7. 过程,生命的契合之点 —--2011年天津第6届中美过程暑期班印象 GO 8. Thinking in a Whiteheadian Mode: The Next Generation of Whitehead Scholars GO 9. We Who Carry Our Brains: Neural Plasticity and Process Theology GO 10. The Dao of Fungi: A Process Theology of Mycology GO |
Bible Stories for the Non-Religious1. Bible Stories for the Non-Religious:
A Word of Introduction GO 2. The Story of Abraham and Sarah(Genesis 12:1-9) Openness to Fresh Possibilities GO 3. The Stuff that Dreams are Made On Genesis 28:10-17 Ordinary Life as a Sacred Space GO 4. Wrestling with God A Reflection on Genesis 32:22-32 GO 5. What do You Say to a Burning Bush? A Reflection on Moses’s Encounter with God in Genesis GO 6. Does God Have a Name? (Genesis 3:13-17) GO 7. Passover: Liberation and Violence GO 8. Scarcity and Abundance (Exodus 16:1-17:7) GO 9. Wisdom From The Mountaintop Genesis 19:1-20:21 GO 10. The Golden Calf (Exodus 32:1-35) GO 11. Shepherd and Lake: A Chinese and American Appreciation of the Twenty-Third Psalm GO 12. Living toward a Vision Moses and the Promised Land Deuteronomy 34:1-8 GO 13. How Does Abba Pray? Thinking Past Joshua 3:1-27 GO |










