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... calculated in monetary terms. Similarly the gifts that are “given” by the natural world are also unmonetized. In 1997, in a study on the value of the world’s natural capital published by Robert Costanza in Nature , the value of “ecosystem services” was calculated at $33 trillion as compared to a global GDP...

..., especially someone suffering from illness or semble the gifts we hope to give in the coming weeks, and old age; yet we put off since there is still time and other matters • A creative gift such as a poem, a piece of art, a home­ are pressing. If you are so inclined, here are a few...

... by (and ceded to) hardline creationists and climate change deniers. Far from the conservative politics that such voices promote, I see the Genesis text as a call for human humility and environmental stewardship. It highlights the gorgeous and fragile gift we have been given in our planet earth, celebrates its...

... by (and ceded to) hard-line creationists and climate change deniers. Far from the conservative politics that such voices promote, I see the Genesis text as a call for human humility and environmental stewardship. It highlights the gorgeous and fragile gift we have been given in our planet Earth, celebrates its...

... for most not give a gift of time, rather tral spiritual message that to do the same. If you did people in regard to their than a “thing”? For example, this season has offered to all you’d be giving the planet a children at this moment in send people a gift of three peoples...

... human wish to see fulfilled—for example, that upon the truth of a certain theological being with our own gifts and failings. This the offender be able and willing to offer an view, and indeed upon the individual be­ is true whether or not the perpetrator re­ apology, and so forth—have not been...

...William Meninger Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 FO R G IV E N E S S /W O R K IN G FOR PEACE ness available, but it is up to the wrong­ A Further Thought WORKING FOR PEACE doer to appropriate the gift—to open...

... to spend money for gifts—you’d consider buying people can’t afford to spend at the level that the media portrays as “nor­ in your life gift subscriptions to Tikkun magazine (special rate malI for an average family.” In short, such materialism under­ of $25/sub). Or buy them a membership in the NSP...

... symbolizes the gift of existence that God gives us through the ten divine utterances that continuously create the world. This gift is given to us with the next letter, heh, which is numerically equivalent to five. Like the five-fingered hand, the heh holds the gift of existence and reaches out...

..., the philosopher Hans Jonas teaches that mortality is the gift the living give to the future. The wonder of life, awesome and terrible, is that it renews itself constantly, by sloughing off the old and by embracing the new...

... it if—in the case that you decide you and feelings of worthlessness in the minds of many who do want to spend money for gifts—you’d consider buying people can’t afford to spend at the level that the media portrays as “nor­ in your life gift subscriptions to Tikkun magazine (special rate malI...

... living in their eyes, hair, and guts, thousands of life forms in a foot of soil, trees of the Amazon Forest. The Source of all, the Holy One, reveals to the human ones their lifework. They are called not only to praise God but to love. Forever beloved by God, they are to receive God’s gift...

.... more nations are gaining this kind of destructive potential annual­ As a preacher I am reminded of the teaching that speaks about ly, it is imperative that we learn to talk and settle differences. To going to the altar w ith your gift, but cautions th at if you have a have the conversation...

... absurd bat­ he calls “unconditional forgiveness” be­ which has been overwhelmed by it, yet tlefield debate between the Sioux Chief cause it dem ands nothing from the of­ continues to resist it. They rem ind us, un­ Sitting Bull and Colonel Nelson Miles in fender. It is, as he calls it, a “gift...

... to the wrong­ A Further Thought WORKING FOR PEACE doer to appropriate the gift—to open the by William Meninger (continuedfrom page 32) window and draw the curtains aside. He does this by acknowledging th e wrong Thomas Aquinas said, “Never deny...