![]() ![]() Counselling, worship and programs are offered in person and on Zoom. You are invited to come and enjoy the community art studio in the barn, sing a longs, bonfires, Dream Groups, Lectio Divina (bible study), a Centering Prayer Group, classes, community meals and more. Everyone is invited to the interfaith Secret Prayer Garden with twelve stations on twelve trees, Inviting prayers and meditations for the Earth. Offering worship with the farm animals in the barn every Sunday, counselling and retreat stays at The Secret Garden Retreat Center. It is a sanctuary to pray, love, and be loved by the natural world. Five acres, with apple trees, a wild wooded area, a rose and vegetable garden in Dallas Oregon, just outside of Salem, the capitol of Oregon. Walt Rutherford, have created a safe harbor for their grandchildren, neighbors and church to learn to grow food in preparation for global crisis. Naming her biodynamic farm, The John Cobb Eco Farm, Bonnie and her husband Dr. Cobb in China and Korea and now serves with him on the Living Earth Movement Board. Bonnie is honored to have studied and travelled with Dr. Cobb on a project using his newest book, Confessions of a Disciple of Jesus as a study guide for Earth Crisis Support Groups. Bonnie Tarwater is a Unitarian Universalist minister and founder ofĬurrently, she is working with John. He was welcomed by Chinese leaders including the Vice President. During this time Cobb was also annually visiting China, and he became well known there. The IPDC held, in Claremont, the first conference on this topic and followed with annual events attracting from fifty to a hundred participants from China. The Chinese government declared its goal to be an “ecological civilization”. It sponsored hundreds of lectures in China, and thirty-five Chinese universities established related centers. Under the leadership of Zhihe Wang, with Cobb’s support, the China Project became the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China. It worked internationally, and by far its greatest success was in China. It published a journal and held conferences in many fields. His leadership in process thought was solidified in 1973, when, with David Griffin, he organized the Center for Process Studies. He wrote a number of books in partnership with scholars in various fields – especially biology, economics, and the New Testament – and has written, edited, or co-authored more than fifty books. His understanding of the world as made up of interconnected events led him to explore a variety of topics from his “process” perspective, with an emphasis on interconnectivity. Cobb has taught at Emory University and Claremont School of Theology and Graduate School. He entered the University of Chicago in January of 1947 studied philosophy and philosophical theology. army from 1943 to 1946 as a Japanese language officer. was born in Japan in 1925 of Methodist missionary parents, and served in the U.S. To inspire hope and, therefore, action.To encourage widespread conviction that a just, peaceful, creative, and sustainable society is possible.To inspire a movement to teach children (and people of all ages) to love our common home, the Earth, and spread the word that the well-being of the Earth’s ecosphere is as valuable as the well-being of humans.To promote a new ethos of global cooperation, peacemaking, and joint solutions to the planetary crisis.To counter the false and hostile propaganda about countries determined to be free of United States control.To inspire participation in public actions that protest the endangerment of our ecosystems and promote deep love and care for the whole natural world.To create an organic grassroots movement of citizen activists advocating for urgent and dramatic action to address the ecological crisis. ![]() To organize citizens of the United States, China, and other nations to encourage and inspire their governments, military, businesses, and educational institutions to shift course toward collaboration and away from current policies of confrontation and dangerous animosity.To inspire and strongly urge the US and China to work together on climate change so other countries around the world will join in to save our planet.
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