...’ collective aspiration to be free, conscious, ethical, loving, creative, joyous, mutually supportive, generous, caring, connected to and cherishing the earth, and filled with awe and wonder at the goodness, complexity, and mystery of the universe. These core aspirations play out differently in different...

... we can never imagine the effects of our own actions. We can never fathom our own power. Laura Beckman ( laurabeckman.com ) Violence can proliferate, but love has an even stronger power to ripple outward. When school administrator Antoinette Tuff persuaded an armed twenty-year-old to put down...

.... Stitching together narratives from religion, history, and myth, The Road to Emmaus is a sort of hero’s journey, following Reece from his emotional wanderings as a gay man seeking love and acceptance to his eventual spiritual homecoming in the form of a mid-life call to the Episcopalian priesthood. Yet...

...Swami Beyondananda Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 HUMOR State of the Universe Address 2010 Wake Up Laughing, and Wise Up Loving: the Upwising Has Begun! BY SWAMI BEYONDANANDA “We’re no t here to earn G od’s love, political toxins poisonally. on the positive...

... as conservatives, the American blood supply would increase by 45 percent. Building Bridges and Katherine Chilcote ( clevelandmurals.org ) The role of religion is to “take us beyond the limits of love … to take us outside of ourselves, show us the sweeping panorama of the universe and, in that context, teach...

...Fania E. Davis Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 D r . M artin L uther K ing J r. defines justice as “love correcting that which revolts against love.” Dr. King made this visionary and audacious declaration at the first mass meeting of the Montgomery Improvement Association...

.... It was a difficult time for her family as her father sought a dignified livelihood and they all adjusted to living in a new land. The Torah demands that I empathize with the migrant because my people were strangers in the land of Egypt. We are called to go further than that and “love the stranger.” That is why I...

... I can be by doing inner work and putting my skills into practice to battle climate change.” A mystic is a lover; a warrior defends what one cherishes. Let us be allies in community and create living rituals that render us courageous and alive, generous and loving, and also effective in making...

..., their love as real love. Our collective hearts opened and then the laws changed, in that order, slowly at first and then quickly. In a recurring drama of our American social theater, the hot-button issues of one generation are often matters of common decency for the next. In one generation it’s...

...ERIK GLEIBERMANN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 One particularly powerful example of love on the political level I encourage students on any grade level to study is the South African truth and reconciliation process. While the reality of what has actually transpired there falls short...

... a world in which love, kindness, generosity, caring for each other, and caring for the earth have replaced violence, wars, economic and social injustice, and environmental destructiveness.” After that prayer, someone says, “What has God done for me lately? To hell with God. Why should I believe...

....” In spite of my fury, the questions I have for you are all about love. You say that you love your daughter very much and that love motivated all your medical choices. Let me try just for a moment to trust your love, to accept the terms upon which you made your decisions. You wanted to protect Ashley from...

...ANDREW LAM Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 I t’s been a difficult and tumultuous love affair. In good times, newcomers are instrumental to the construction of the New World. They are beckoned, needed, desired. In bad times, they are the cause of all social-economic woes...

... the histories and dynamics of international struggles are indispensible for understanding current realities. If you are itching to get away from the contemporary world, here’s a fun and steamy route: a hot gay love story based in part on an imaginative reconstruction of the relationship...

...JOSEPH LUMBARD Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 N on-muslims often struggle to understand Muslims because they fail to grasp the role that the Prophet Muhammad plays in our lives. Failing to realize the breadth of the Prophet’s teachings and the depth of love for the Prophet throughout...

... of those trying to resist this global insanity. Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love , by Duhm Dieter , Verlag Meiga , 2015 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 For more information about Tamera and The Grace Foundation, visit: www.tamera.org and www.the-grace...

...Scott P. Lewis Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Focus the Universities on Global Heating Fighting for Love in the Century o fExtinction, by Eban Goodstein by Scott P. Lewis . *i m m m nr...