... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 The Scenic Route , Kirshenbaum Binnie , Harper Perennial , 2009 The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism , Edited by Ruttenberg Danya , NYU Press , 2009 A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith...

...Donna Schaper Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 F aith-based community organizing has a fine history. I’m talking about Gamaliel, the faith-based network that trains community organizers nationwide to work on immigration, health care, and transportation issues. I’m talking about...

... of the reigning paradigm. Rather, the keepers of the conventional wisdom were so captivated by their own success that they failed to exit the mindset and institutions that had created wicked problems in the process of making their success possible. What do the shared faith traditions of sacred strangers bring...

... has metaphoric density and those for whom it is merely formulaic.” She called for us to develop “the great muscle of metaphor, drawing strength from resemblance in difference.” “Contemplative correspondence,” the writing practice Hering has developed, works to reclaim the language of faith...

...PETER GABEL Smith calls this process “faith formation” — the way in which others strengthen us to align our inner intuition of God’s call to justice with practical action that manifests moral presence and spiritual power (as Berndt points out, it is this “maturing of faith formation” that gives...

... to leave behind faith in a transcendent God who continues to intervene in history, Unger exhorts us to become “more human by becoming more godlike,” suggesting that we can share in the experience of the divine “by living out, through love and cooperation, the implications of our incompleteness...

... and therefore force him to send a flood to kill everyone but Noah’s family—my father simply told me to have faith and not to question “the Word of God.” Luckily, I didn’t listen. I turned in the opposite direction, in fact, renouncing Christianity as a young adult. I chose the road of the questioning artist...

... is the violator.” The decision to declare Sanctuary was a collective one, assumed by a congregation united in faith, solidarity, and compassion. “Whenever a congregation that proclaims the prophetic faith abandons the poor and persecuted to organized violation,” wrote Corbett, “its unfaithfulness darkens the way...

... allows us to realize that such untainted objectivity in fact eluded all of nineteenth century historiography, the “Science of Judaism” included. Wissenschaft sought to present to the West an image of Judaism as an enlightened, liberal, tolerant faith, the legacy of an unjustly maligned people who even...

...Mark I. Wallace Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Educational Genocide, Eco-Violence, and Poverty Pimping: The Cry of Faith in Urban America Today by Mark I. Wallace S AN EDUCATOR AND A CHRISTIA N, I NOW W ORK IN THE CITY OF Chester...

... Together Action: in Faith...

...Amanda Udis-Kessler; Phoebe Lostroh Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 The H ands of the Holy: Re-Envisioning LGBT Welcome in Faith Communities by Amanda Udis-Kessler and Phoebe Lostroh T’S TIME TO DEVELOP NEW, COMPELLING ARGUMENTS...