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...Richard Rohr Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 Rethinking Religion Is Christmas Christian? by Richard Rohr s a F...

... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 CHRISTMAS Tikkunms started as and remains the voice of liberal and progressive Jews. But it has also evolved to become the voice of spiritual progressives of all sorts, in­ cluding atheists...

...Lynice Pinkard Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 The Downward M obility of God to a stable at Christmas by Lynice Pinkard e f o r e t a l k in g a b o u t C h r i s t m a s and the deep spiritual meanings that it evokes, it’s im...

..., and Hamas, as well as the pain that Christians feel when Christianity is identified with reactionary politics. Our task as spiritual progressives is to reclaim the loving and emancipatory messages of our traditions, still shining through in the core of Chanukah and Christmas, even when the dominant society...

... to win back an important segment of support? Do we need a miracle? Well that kind of miracle is precisely what we are celebrating on Chanukah and Christmas. Chanukah celebrates the victory of a liberation struggle in Judea 165 B.C.E. when a tiny guerilla army of farmers and religious activists beat...

... it. One: In the darkness from war-ravished countries to December 25: Christmas Litany death row cells, we give thanks for the witness of those who remember that justice is not served by Note: “One” can...

...Tikkun Judson Memorial Church celebrates the use of provocative art to open churchgoers to fresher and deeper forms of worship. One Christmas, a congregant strung chili pepper Christmas lights from the church’s roof to evoke the Virgin Mary’s cleavage. ...

.... community not celebrate the imperialist conquest, the im­ God Is Not Great. This book Lemer’s article, entitled other’s holiday, a widespread position of confiscatory levels highlighted the alleged ab­ “Chanukah & Christmas: practice that has led to the dis­ of taxation...

... weeks prior to Christmas. Christians celebrate Jesus’s birth on December 25, not because we know this to be the date of our Lord’s birth, buf rather because that is when the Romans celebrated the winter solstice. As a minority movement in the first few centuries of the common era, our ancestors...

... archetypal Americans. Certainly since I crisis on its hands. ■ great American classics, live in New Orleans, I have to “White Christmas” and “East­ agree that jazz and blues are Antony Loewenstein...

...Lindsay Bernal Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 I don’t know why I pulled over, idling, right before Christmas, two months of snow and   salt plowed onto the shoulder, each squat rambler aglow, a life-size baby Jesus reborn in the   DiPasquale’s front yard, why everything looked...

... that they are “waiting for the signal from home.” Theodor Geisel works on a drawing for How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Theodor Geisel works on a drawing for How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Suggested Reading Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel: A Biography by Judith and Neil Morgan (Da Capo Press, 1996). Dr...

... 111.- o f the stream’s holiday season. It is packed full of of what they want. A professor at the Whar­ specific ideas about how to turn Christmas ton School of Business, Waldfogel is con­ AMERICAN into a spiritually sensitive...

... with me about this and that. It’s a pleasant uneventful morning, and the conversation doesn’t register, until Svetlana asks me what my plans are for Christmas. I tell her, still in the same mode, easy about it, that I have no plans for Christmas, because I am Jewish, and Jews don’t celebrate Christmas...

... an existential teased, like the famous irony that the two archetypal Americans. Certainly since I crisis on its hands. ■ great American classics, live in New Orleans, I have to “White Christmas” and “East­ agree...

... strong disagreements, because that is what makes There was a tremendous emphasis Tikkun a locationfor a true diversity o f ideas. Tikkun reserves the right to edit your letters on Christmas at the center my to fit available space in the magazine...

... to Horton, the owner of a southern plantation once promised his slaves that the Christmas holiday would last as long as the backlog in the master’s house burned. The slaves knew that Christmas meant less work and more food, and so by planning and ingenuity, they managed to find...