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Tikkun (2010) 25 (5): 72–74.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Noach Dzmura Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 Queer Spirituality & Politics
A Progressive Religious
Agenda Toward Gay Rights
A Response to “Ten Reasons Why Gay Rights Is a Religious Issue” by Jay Michaelson...
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Tikkun (2012) 27 (3): 17–61.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... But whatever we label it, the trend in American culture has been inexorably toward a world of individuals, each doing his or her own thing. Even as far back as 1978, a Gallup poll found that 80 percent of Americans believed that “an individual should arrive at his or her religious beliefs independently of any...
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Tikkun (2012) 27 (2): 45–68.
Published: 01 April 2012
... someone who takes her religious values so seriously that she is willing to withstand intense social pressure. If women in our culture normally feel pressure to dress in revealing clothing, the pressure must be tenfold in Hollywood and a hundredfold at big public industry events like the Emmys. But she did...
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Tikkun (2013) 28 (1): 28–30.
Published: 01 January 2013
... a few doors down at this minute. He is sitting there alone in the pouring rain. It is a well-known fact that religious congregations, particularly liberal ones, have been hemorrhaging congregants for the last fifty years. Theological updates, long overdue, have done nothing to staunch the outflow...
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Published: 01 August 2012
David Butcher What makes a religious space feel holy? Is it the deep, loving relationships among congregants? Here, worshippers engage in the “laying on of hands” during a Pentecostal ordination service in the United Kingdom.
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Published: 01 August 2012
Jay Hariani Most religious communities succeed in feeling “nice” or polite. A harder task is tapping into the radical inclusivity and transformative love at the heart of “Beloved Community.”
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Published: 01 April 2012
Like Occupy Wall Street, a true religious counterculture rejects the dominant culture, instead seeking to embody a radical vision of loving community. Here, three ministers mock the worship of money with a golden calf modeled after the Wall Street Bull.
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Tikkun (2013) 28 (4): 16–18.
Published: 01 November 2013
...ANA LEVY-LYONS As religious people, we face our lives head on, knowing that our time is short here. And so we live with a little fire and intensity, fierceness and reverence. We live with all our hearts, with all our souls, and with all our very-ness. We know that there is no time to waste...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (1): 28–31.
Published: 01 January 2014
... is morally repugnant. In liberal religious communities, most of us spend our time trying to temper greed, to contain it, to objectify it so that we can say, “this is not who we really are at core.” Jesus decried greed and wealth as obstacles to the spiritual life. The Buddha identified desire (of which greed...
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Tikkun (2016) 31 (1): 36–40.
Published: 01 January 2016
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Tikkun (2016) 31 (1): 40–42.
Published: 01 January 2016
... that we do on behalf of any of its constituent parts. Fueled by love, from top to bottom, in every domain and dimension of our work and play, it has to become the ethic by which we live our lives. I believe that the religious counterculture offers a way to move toward this ethic. Rather than passively...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (3): 13–16.
Published: 01 August 2014
...ANA LEVY-LYONS For example, as religious people we should eat foods that were grown with ecological foresight and raised with compassion. We should buy products whose manufacturing supports the well‐ being of workers, families, and communities. We should keep a Sabbath in which we radically...
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Tikkun (2017) 32 (3): 29–33.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Shaiya Rothberg Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 F ew would take issue today with the claim that religious Zionism is the most particularistic and self-centered of contemporary Jewish identities. While many streams of Judaism and Zionism place the well-being of humanity at the center...
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Published: 01 August 2014
Magen Tzedek ( magentzedek.org ) “As religious people, we should eat foods that were grown with ecological foresight and raised with compassion,” Levy‐Lyons writes. This Magen Tzedek seal is placed on food that meets traditional kosher standards and is also produced in accord with Jewish ethics
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Tikkun (2017) 32 (4): 40–47.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of the primary models for me of an erudite and innovative Jewish teacher whose vision of religious life propelled him into interreligious dialogue, study, and ritual practice. Through his daring, idiosyncratic, and heartfelt experimentation, he modeled possibilities for growth and healing — both individually...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 13–14.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of ethical or spiritual justification for their actions. It would have been funny, for example, if it weren’t so sad, how the politics played out back in February when conservative organizations in Arizona tried to pass a so-called religious freedom bill. The new legislation would have explicitly allowed...
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Tikkun (2012) 27 (4): 16–67.
Published: 01 November 2012
... left off, lamenting how our time — our lifeblood — is stolen from us. But Heschel approaches the question from a mystical, religious perspective. In his 1951 book, The Sabbath , he writes about the Jewish Sabbath — the mirror image of Marx’s dystopia — the twenty-five hours, from sundown Friday until...
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Published: 01 January 2014
Caitlin Ng ( caitlinng.com ) Religious environmentalism “restores to human consciousness an understanding of nature as . . . the bearer of mystery and spirit,” the author writes. Walk Softly on the Earth by Caitlin Ng.
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Published: 01 January 2014
David Lance Goines ( goines.net ) What would it mean for religious ethics to stop fixating on the human species? Goldfinch & Wild Rose by David Lance Goines.
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 9–10.
Published: 01 January 2015
... no religious imprimatur. We reject their authority and, frankly, we dislike commandments in general. It seems that, for Westmoreland, the Ten Commandments are primarily a cultural icon. Collectively they are one thing to him, and the cultural meaning of that thing far outweighs its content. He wants...
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