Hey friends, I hope you know about Matt Segall who's a a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, teacher, and philosopher applying process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences, as well as to the study of consciousness. If you don't know of him, you do now! Subscribte to his Footnoes2Plato on Substack and/or YouTube. Or pick up one of his books like the one we reference in our conversation Physics of the World-Soul. I really appreciate Matt's work. He's one of my go to people whenever I need to critically think through something about Alfred North Whitehead, philosophy, A.I., evolution, or process thinking, you know, stuff like that.

If you like the concepts Matt and I talk about and/or you're someone who's experienced some loss in your life, I'd be willing to bet you'd find my most recent book meaningful. It's called indigo: the color of grief. Speaking of interesting concepts, you should join me and lots of others at Theology Beer Camp this fall, but make sure you use my promo code FOSTERFRODO to get some $ off! And also, while you're out on the internet, you might as well sign up to my newsletter here.

Thanks everyone, peace.

Have you read the good stuff at openhorizons.org? If not, check it out and learn about my friend, scholar, author, process theologian, and interdisciplinary thinker, Jay McDaniel. Our conversational partner on this episode is Tori Owens. Tori is a counselor, friend, and amazing artist, and she is soon to have her doctorate in open and relational theology. Both Jay and Tori bring a tremendous sense of compassion, abundance, and love to the conversation, which happens to be really important to me (as I think they are essential things for the whole world).

Speaking of abundance and love, I hope you take time to pick up a copy of indigo: the color of grief. And if you like it, leave a review. indigo is all about grief, lament, joy, beauty, art, and life. So, if any of those things are interesting to you, you should check it out.

For more info, see jonathanfosteronline.com. Thanks everyone!

J_F

Please welcome Keith Giles back to the show. Keith has a brand new book dropping today, actually, April 23 and it's called The Quantum Sayings of Jesus: Decoding the Lost Gospel of Thomas. I really enjoyed reading the book, learning more about the backstory with The Gospel of Thomas, and my conversation with Keith. I hope you'll pick up a copy of the book and/or find out more about Keith at his patheos site.

Keith and I (and others) are a part of the QuoirCast Patreon page. We'd love for you to be involved. Jump in, support it as you can, which will help us do some advertising. :)

Hope you take opportunity to sign up to my newlsetter at jonathanfosteronline.com. Once there you can go patreon or substack for your newsletter. How coool would that be? Also, while you're there you can learn more about some of my writing (or all of my writing ... why not?). To think through open and relational theology (ORT) and mimetic theory see Theology of Consent. To think ORT and grief, see indigo. For ORT (are you seeing a pattern?) and reconstruction see The Reconstructionist. Etc, etc. :)