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This is an audio essay from my Process This substack?. In it, I reflect on Alfred North Whitehead and what he can teach us about religion in our time. You see, Whitehead didn’t see religion as just doctrines or institutions—he understood it as a creative force that connects our deepest ideals with the passion that actually moves us to act in the world. And here’s what’s beautiful: he shows us that the divine isn’t a force that dominates or controls, but a gentle invitation woven through all of reality, calling us toward truth, beauty, and goodness. We’re not passive recipients of this, we’re active partners, and every act of kindness, every moment of genuine connection actually adds something real to the universe that wouldn’t exist without us. The real transformation in history, whether it’s been the Civil Rights Movement or the climate movement today, happens not through force and domination, but through the slower, harder, more beautiful path of persuasion—changing hearts and minds one person at a time. And here’s what gives me hope: nothing we do in love is ever lost. It all becomes part of this larger story of the universe moving toward wholeness. So in this post-religious age, we desperately need this capacity to be moved by beauty and called by goodness. The question isn’t what we believe, it’s whether we’ll let ourselves be caught up in this larger movement of love.
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