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... bring a lot, but I’m doing the best I can with what I’ve got.” We don’t have the reign of God in its glory, for sure. But I say with the realistic Jewish prophet, Jesus, “Thank God for the mustard seeds.” ...

...TERESA MARBUT Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 W hen i was little , I was enthralled with “The Parable of the Mustard Seed.” I knew what a mustard seed looked like, as my mother and grandmother spent many an hour each summer canning dill pickles; quite often I was allowed to sprinkle...

...Rachel P. Kriger Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Be Fruitful and Save Seeds by Rachel P. Kriger u t u m n is n e a r , d a y l ig h t is d e c r e a s in g , and th e plants are heavy with fruits. N ature begins...

...“The notion of genuine hope suggests that, in our present lives and communities, we can find seeds or fragments of the alternative world we hope to build,” Peterson writes. Seeds by Linnea Vedder-Shults. Linnea Vedder-Shults ( tikkun.org/linnea ) ...

... network of Indian cotton growers, carders, and weavers—an alternative to the British-controlled textile industry. Thirty years ago in India, I found an environmental equivalent of Gandhi’s spinning wheel, similarly capable of mobilizing society: the struggle for plant seeds. In the 1980s I decided...

... in a bowl. The dancers have a lot of things to put on, like white robes with sashes. . . . I have seen clothes like that in Mexico. Next I helped plant some seeds. It’s a lot of work. At the greenhouse, my friend Andrew showed me how to harvest the lettuce. I helped by picking a lot of leaves. There were...

...William O’Brien Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 O nce upon a time, in order to grow corn, farmers around the world would do the same thing their parents and grandparents did: plant simple, ordinary corn seed. But now, in the twenty-first century, they have marvelous new choices. They can...

...In the world of biblical Israel, one would go into debt only “if one didn’t have enough food, perhaps because one’s family had to eat next year’s seed grain in order to survive,” Borg writes. Today the situation is much different. How might the Jubilee laws be adapted? Pixabay Public Domain ...

..., that the Jews intentionally rejected Jesus as Christ and thereby forfeit their status as the “chosen people.” For Luther, the promise to Abraham’s seed was in reality the promise of the Seed, that is the Messiah/Christ (Gen 3:15). The physical seed of Abraham, the Jews, were God’s chosen instrument in Old...

.... Decentralized systems have more flexibility to respond to uncertainty as well. That is why participants in Navdanya, the Indian biodiversity conservation movement that I founded, promote the creation of community seed banks at a local level, as well as other steps to intensify biodiversity within farming...

... into DNAto comer the seed market. Nowthat 90 percent of our soybeans are genetically modified in this manner, along with 75 percent of our canola, 73 percent of our com, and 83 percent of our cotton (which we eat in the form of cottonseedB oil in our baked goods, potato...

... not been fulfilled. The Hebrew prophets had pre­ dicted that the Jews would one day come to live everlastingly in a land marked by social and economic well-being (Isaiah 65:17-25). Those of the Diaspora would be returned to the land promised to the seed of Abraham (Genesis 15:18), and all nations...

... will do am hoping for is a seed of people everything we can to support any BEYOND GOVERNMENT helping people to go beyond the plausible strategy that will reduce D r . P h il W o lfso n ’s a r tic le, limitations of what governments...

... as Turner and George Soros, do have deep spires you to act? Tikkun readers will, of taught me much about the social mix that concern about the corporate hijacking of course, think about Michael Lerner’s existed during the era when the seeds of democracy, but also because the recent work...

..., the Dorothy founder Coles’sWorker Catholic of Robert biography In But we live this life by faith, trusting that a seed can grow...

..., bagged and paid for: strawberries piled in plastic coffers, raspberries, blueberries, shade-grown Jamaican coffee, not forgetting sunflower seeds for our little sisters the sparrows who are always hungry, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ...

... humans after giving them dominion over animals is, “Here, I have placed all the vegetation that produces seed that is on the face of all the Earth for you and every tree, which has in it the fruit of a tree producing seed. It will be food for you and for all the wild animals of the earth and for all...

... for Africa. Its focus is research toward developing improved seeds and using small shopkeepers to sell them. Atten­...