"We live in an extraordinary moment in history-an oddly beautiful time-painted with the starkly contrasting colors of undeniable loss and rich possibility.
A retired clergy and educator, she currently lives with her husband, Ron, on the central coast of Ecuador..
Patricia Adams Farmer is the author of Embracing a Beautiful God, two novels, and numerous essays inspired by process theology and philosophy.
Active in local Christian and Buddhist communities, he has a PhD from Claremont Graduate University.
In his professional life, he teaches world religions; in his community work, he promotes sustainable community and inter-faith cooperation.
He is a board member of the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China and a consultant to the Center for Process Studies.
About the Author Jay McDaniel, professor of Religious Studies at Hendrix College in Conway, AK, is the author of six books, including Of God and Pelicans and Living from the Center, and editor of the websites Jesus, Jazz, and Buddhism and Process Philosophy for Everyone.
Coming from a variety of cultural and religious traditions, the essays are all about the Beauty that flourishes in the fertile soil of sustainable community, relational thinking, imagination, creativity, the arts, stories of everyday people, as well as in our creative action Toward the healing of our planet.
The Universe is rife with freshness, and we are part of the adventure: part of the urgent call to return to the wisdom of the Earth and replant Ourselves in Beauty." So write the editors in their introduction to this rich collection of essays by scholars, writers, artists, activists, educators, and clergy who have been influenced by the thinking of Alfred North Whitehead. "We live in an extraordinary moment in history-an oddly beautiful time-painted with the starkly contrasting colors of undeniable loss and rich possibility
