“They did not know the road to the Land of Israel, nor did anyone they met along the way . . . They only knew that it was in the East; so they turned their faces eastward, and that was the way they went . . . ” Creative Commons More

Creative Commons/notanalternative ( notanalternative.org .) Did you know that debt cancellation is the biblical norm, not the exception? Occupy Faith’s next big project is a rolling jubilee to abolish debt and uproot internalized capitalism. More

Fiona Ostby ( fionaostby.com ) “Many people don’t know about midlife discrimination, which means they blame themselves rather than capitalism,” Gullette writes. “We should fear ageism, not aging.” Illustration by Fiona Ostby. More

“The liver cell is part of something larger, it ‘knows’ and responds to that larger something, and it is absolutely dependent on that larger totality,” Rabbi Lerner writes. “Human beings stand in similar relationship with God,” and with as much understanding of God as the liver cell has More

Belief in any value system can only be based on faith, since it is impossible to know what is good or evil, or why we should be good and not evil. Creative Commons More

Creative Commons/Deyan Sedlarski ( behance.net/rubixstudio ) The old adage, “Know your customer,” has been carried to extremes. Are these invasions of privacy starting to unravel our very notion of personhood? More

Cathy Maier Callanan/Creativity for Peace Israeli and Palestinian teens from Creativity for Peace get to know one another in the quiet refuge of northern New Mexico. Programs like this provide a safe space for teens to meet as equals and hear the stories and perspectives of the “enemy.” More

“Which God Shall Rule?” Mammon (top) or the God spoken of by Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (below) when he said “placing ourselves on the side of the poor and attempting to give them life, we will know what the eternal truth of the Gospel consists of.” More

Paloma Galzi ( palomagalzi.blogspot.com ) Rabbinic literature warns against the dangers of the yetzer ha-ra (desire), but the Talmud itself notes that without this force, which “came forth from the Holy of Holies like a fiery lion,” the cycle of life as we know it would end. More

Creative Commons/Dignidad Rebelde ( dignidadrebelde.com ) The Left is weakened by its deep generational divide and by the fact that “white leftists tend to know little about movements of the Left among people of color,” Epstein writes. Here, members of a Latina immigrant organization participate More

Laura Beckman ( laurabeckman.com ) “Does love mean protecting your privacy while displaying your daughter’s body and story?” the author writes. “I know you intend ‘pillow angel’ as an expression of love, but I feel those words in my bones as separation, exclusion, a denial of humanity.” Pillow More