Quotes & Sayings


We, and creation itself, actualize the possibilities of the God who sustains the world, towards becoming in the world in a fuller, more deeper way. - R.E. Slater

There is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have [consequential effects upon] the world around us. - Process Metaphysician Alfred North Whitehead

Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem says (i) all closed systems are unprovable within themselves and, that (ii) all open systems are rightly understood as incomplete. - R.E. Slater

The most true thing about you is what God has said to you in Christ, "You are My Beloved." - Tripp Fuller

The God among us is the God who refuses to be God without us, so great is God's Love. - Tripp Fuller

According to some Christian outlooks we were made for another world. Perhaps, rather, we were made for this world to recreate, reclaim, redeem, and renew unto God's future aspiration by the power of His Spirit. - R.E. Slater

Our eschatological ethos is to love. To stand with those who are oppressed. To stand against those who are oppressing. It is that simple. Love is our only calling and Christian Hope. - R.E. Slater

Secularization theory has been massively falsified. We don't live in an age of secularity. We live in an age of explosive, pervasive religiosity... an age of religious pluralism. - Peter L. Berger

Exploring the edge of life and faith in a post-everything world. - Todd Littleton

I don't need another reason to believe, your love is all around for me to see. – Anon

Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all. - Khalil Gibran, Prayer XXIII

Be careful what you pretend to be. You become what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

Religious beliefs, far from being primary, are often shaped and adjusted by our social goals. - Jim Forest

We become who we are by what we believe and can justify. - R.E. Slater

People, even more than things, need to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. – Anon

Certainly, God's love has made fools of us all. - R.E. Slater

An apocalyptic Christian faith doesn't wait for Jesus to come, but for Jesus to become in our midst. - R.E. Slater

Christian belief in God begins with the cross and resurrection of Jesus, not with rational apologetics. - Eberhard Jüngel, Jürgen Moltmann

Our knowledge of God is through the 'I-Thou' encounter, not in finding God at the end of a syllogism or argument. There is a grave danger in any Christian treatment of God as an object. The God of Jesus Christ and Scripture is irreducibly subject and never made as an object, a force, a power, or a principle that can be manipulated. - Emil Brunner

“Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh” means "I will be that who I have yet to become." - God (Ex 3.14) or, conversely, “I AM who I AM Becoming.”

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. - Thomas Merton

The church is God's world-changing social experiment of bringing unlikes and differents to the Eucharist/Communion table to share life with one another as a new kind of family. When this happens, we show to the world what love, justice, peace, reconciliation, and life together is designed by God to be. The church is God's show-and-tell for the world to see how God wants us to live as a blended, global, polypluralistic family united with one will, by one Lord, and baptized by one Spirit. – Anon

The cross that is planted at the heart of the history of the world cannot be uprooted. - Jacques Ellul

The Unity in whose loving presence the universe unfolds is inside each person as a call to welcome the stranger, protect animals and the earth, respect the dignity of each person, think new thoughts, and help bring about ecological civilizations. - John Cobb & Farhan A. Shah

If you board the wrong train it is of no use running along the corridors of the train in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's justice is restorative rather than punitive; His discipline is merciful rather than punishing; His power is made perfect in weakness; and His grace is sufficient for all. – Anon

Our little [biblical] systems have their day; they have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of Thee, and Thou, O God art more than they. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

We can’t control God; God is uncontrollable. God can’t control us; God’s love is uncontrolling! - Thomas Jay Oord

Life in perspective but always in process... as we are relational beings in process to one another, so life events are in process in relation to each event... as God is to Self, is to world, is to us... like Father, like sons and daughters, like events... life in process yet always in perspective. - R.E. Slater

To promote societal transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework which includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace. - The Earth Charter Mission Statement

Christian humanism is the belief that human freedom, individual conscience, and unencumbered rational inquiry are compatible with the practice of Christianity or even intrinsic in its doctrine. It represents a philosophical union of Christian faith and classical humanist principles. - Scott Postma

It is never wise to have a self-appointed religious institution determine a nation's moral code. The opportunities for moral compromise and failure are high; the moral codes and creeds assuredly racist, discriminatory, or subjectively and religiously defined; and the pronouncement of inhumanitarian political objectives quite predictable. - R.E. Slater

God's love must both center and define the Christian faith and all religious or human faiths seeking human and ecological balance in worlds of subtraction, harm, tragedy, and evil. - R.E. Slater

In Whitehead’s process ontology, we can think of the experiential ground of reality as an eternal pulse whereby what is objectively public in one moment becomes subjectively prehended in the next, and whereby the subject that emerges from its feelings then perishes into public expression as an object (or “superject”) aiming for novelty. There is a rhythm of Being between object and subject, not an ontological division. This rhythm powers the creative growth of the universe from one occasion of experience to the next. This is the Whiteheadian mantra: “The many become one and are increased by one.” - Matthew Segall

Without Love there is no Truth. And True Truth is always Loving. There is no dichotomy between these terms but only seamless integration. This is the premier centering focus of a Processual Theology of Love. - R.E. Slater

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Note: Generally I do not respond to commentary. I may read the comments but wish to reserve my time to write (or write from the comments I read). Instead, I'd like to see our community help one another and in the helping encourage and exhort each of us towards Christian love in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. - re slater

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Index - "What Is Process?" Series



Index - "What Is Process?"

by R.E. Slater
Process philosophy is a metaphysical approach to human living in relation to a creation that persists processually. Process understands reality to fundamentally consist of momentary processes flowing across the processes of time and space. That reality is neither static, some form of external or existential objects nor metaphysical (Platonic) substance. Process Philosophy emphasizes evolving change, continual forms of becoming, novelty and co-partnering creativity over concrete fixity and unchangeable persistence. Process views everything as being in a state of continuous flux, with perceived "stable things" being but mere patterns of dynamically evolving underlying processes. That the cosmos (creation) is a complex, interconnected organic whole formed of panrelational, panexperiential, and panpsychic concrescences of becoming. Key figures include the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus and more recent thinkers like Alfred North Whitehead. 


"What Is Process?" Series
This series is an outgrowth from the past many years of exploring process thought across culture. Each will be a short treatise on the subject to show the breadth of process philosophy on every facet of life. For additional reading please refer to the extensive topic list on the right. - re slater

What is Process Philosophy?
Closer to the Truth Interview of Andrew M. Davis


After the above introduction will follow the main interview (automatically):


~ note: many of the topics listed below can be
found in the topic list to the right ~



What Is Process Theology?  <-- essay

What Is Christianity?  <-- essay

What Is a Processual Reading of the Bible?  <-- essay
What Is Process (Panpsychic) Panentheism?
What Is Process Science & Cosmology?
What Is Process Anthropology?

What Is Process Evolution?

What Is Process Biology?

What Is Process Ecology?

What Is Process EcoCivilization?

What Is Process Literature?

What is Process Humanities?

What Is Process Humanitarianism?

What Is Process Democracy?
What Is Process Governance?
What Is Process Economics

What Is Process Sexuality?
What Is Process Psychology?

What Is Process PsychoAnalytics (Sin & Lack)?

What Is Process Ethics (Axiology)?

What Is Process Beauty (Aesthetics)?




A List of Earlier Essays
from August - September 2025
listed by date, chronologically, from newest to oldest

I was absent the entire month of July having travelled to Northwest Canada, Alaska, and the Yukon Territories. Returning I have been working on expressing process thought in as many contemporary locations as I can find it through my own experiences, friendships, church culture, community, newsevents, podcasts, and social-media in general.
I trust these essays will stretch your brain, heart, and soul as they have mine, as frankly, I've become weary of the cruel acts of our species, nationalities, religions, and cultures committed upon one another. I believe we should be acting in love to one another at all times. It begins with criticizing our beliefs and behaviors, and then learning to re-learn better, more gracious-and-kind beliefs and behaviors towards one another. I believe process thinking can help in these regards as I continue to write and demonstrate. - Peace, re slater


























Developing 21st-Century Process Thought  <-- connects to Timeline above















We Worship a God of Love,
Not a God of Wrath

by R.E. Slater
October 11, 2021


After years of looking at how to interpret the bible in order to live out my Christian beliefs, I have found that LOVE is the best hermeneutic I can ever find...

  • It is the easiest to teach and share...
  • The most sublime reason for engaging God at all...
  • Of a God who is fully, freely, and willingly, a God who LOVES...
  • Though classic theologies would teach a half-and-half God the bible, through Jesus in the NT, corrects those OT mis-theologies by removing religious man's fear, imperfect view of God, and need for violence...
  • Jesus taught us that God is loving, good, tender, beauty, and joy...
  • God is a God without wrath...
  • God is a without judgment...
  • God is a God without hell...
  • Our sin brings these darknesses upon us...
  • Not a God of atoning redemption who brings loving salvation to mankind...
  • A God who does not send sinners to hell but saves sinners from the hell of being themselves filled with wrath, hate, and the hot winds of religiousity...
  • A God who can change unfeeling, unloving, indifferent societies from being the worse possible versions of themselves...
  • A God who writes beauty and wellbeing everywhere...
  • A God who redeems our darkness to make all light...
  • A God who is not a God of darkness, wrath, or judgment...
  • But a God who is only, and always, a God of LOVE...
  • Through and through and through and through....
  • This is the God of the bible, not the wrathful God of religious men of the bible...

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