Remix - ORT101: Open and Relational Theology

Date: Thursday, May 21 @ 7:00pm
Location: Strange Craft Beer Co.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83219357817
Curriculum: www.brewtheology.org/weekly-meetings/2026/5/14/ort-101-open-and-relational-theology
Password: brew

Join us for a remix of ORT101: Open & Relational Theology. Missed out last week? No sweat, we have notes to catch you up!

Join us this week as we learn about Open and Relational Theology.
Open and Relational Theology (ORT) is a theological school that is a branch of Process philosophy and theology.

Process Philosophy was created by Alfred North Whitehead in the 1920s as a response to the burgeoning field of quantum mechanics. Whitehead was primarily a mathematician and physicist. Whitehead admitted freely that the work of building a new metaphysic, a framework for understanding reality, was an immense project but he wanted to incorporate changes happening in the early 20th Century into our understanding of reality and God.

Open and Relational Theology is one such endeavor that offers us an understanding of God that widens our view. This includes exploring creation in its wholeness and integrating scientific understanding into how we see God. We can integrate new learnings and expand our understanding of how the universe works. We can also widen our view about who gets to participate in religion and what that can look like. And, fundamentally, we help people live into wholeness as they experience becoming.

Open and Relational Theology is a framework for making better sense of God in a complicated world. Its core tenets include: Knowing that we have some say in our lives, that God is with us through everything but doesn’t cause pain, and that God is always seeking to bring us into wholeness by offering us the best choice available in every moment. This means that no moment is lost and that there is hope even in the darkest of times.

Exploring ORT also gives us the gift of knowing we matter at the most basic levels of our being. Our choice matters and God trusts us enough to let us choose. When we fall short, they are always there to help us make the next best choice in our journey of becoming.
Join us this Thursday at Strange Craft as we explore this growing field of theology.