... late, and poor Pepi was dying. Poor thing!—he’d been ailing for weeks. Since birth Pepi has been susceptible to respiratory infections, a genetic flaw for which someone is to blame, yet what good are accusations, at such a time? Pepi himself is partly to blame, I’m afraid. One of us would...

...Joy Ladin Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 QUEER SPIRITUALITY AND POLITICS A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stern College: Gender Transition and Jewish Ethics by Joy Ladin N 2003, AS A BEARDED, KIPPAH...

... are working for peace. the first place. The problem is that the great? Meanwhile on Capitol Hill, Democ­ Democratic leaders in Washington, like Andy: That’s the thing. The intention at rats were echoing their Republican their Republican predecessors...

... know, the whole old-man-with-a- sentient, and interactive, without compromising my rational Ilong-beard-in-heaven thing just doesn’t make sense.” worldview. Such comments suggest that it is not God per se that presents The search led me to a model used in neuroscience to explain...

...DAVID ABRAM Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 Illustration by Lawrence Santanello Illustration by Lawrence Santanello All of man’s mistakes arise because he imagines that he walks upon a lifeless thing, whereas his footsteps imprint themselves in a flesh full of vital power...

... to do. I really loved going back to Brooklyn to visit my grandmother, be­ cause it seemed like there was a real environment there with people doing things. I think my formative years were about rebelling...

..., the specialness of Israel and the Torah, and the notion that God hears our prayers. No one in the non-Orthodox Jewish “academy” believes these things in a literal sense, but they have long been staples of mass religion...

..., and watch less TV. It’s kind of fun to make lists of all the things we can do that don’t extract anything from the earth: things like conversing, going for walks, reading a used book, having sex (assuming we don’t make any more humans in the process), playing acoustic instruments, or playing pickup soccer...

... who are told they have no choice, that that’s the way things are, that “life is like that.”. . . Empowerment is the core theme in Dr. Seuss, for with all of his irreverent nonsense he offers readers a space within which they can search for both identity and virtue, free from the oppressive force...

... healthcare access and healthcare reform. it them from raising their prices again and again). I look forward to the day when we’ll see universal single-payer KE: Well, I think that estimate of the number of people eligible healthcare. But I understand that things sometimes go in steps...

...KATY FOX-HODESS Being a social justice activist means accepting that things will go badly as often as, or more often than, they go well. As a result, we can’t count on getting a lot of external approval or even recognition for the work we do. Even when things are going well, there are still many...

... notion without a mind that relates one thing to another and for which things are related — holding together both terms of a relation. Idealistic theologies, especially of the subjective type, reason that because matter is unintelligible without mind, matter must never have existed without mind...

... nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly father feeds them” (Matthew 6:26). To rekindle my desire to nurture the sacred earth, I take refuge in the thrush, often repeating to myself “The Peace of Wild Things,” a poem that farmer-philosopher Wendell Berry wrote about the refuge he finds among his own...