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...How can we produce a vocabulary that links environmental justice to the digital age? Kevin Huang ...

...). Some offer new ethical vocabularies to help us expose and abolish unjust structures of debt. Others report on exciting efforts already underway to reframe debt as a collective problem to be solved through mass mobilization and social transformation. Join us in this joyful and daring dream of Jubilee...

... on poverty published during the Reagan years. Wilson effectively challenges prevailing conservative arguments that discount the need for major new government initiatives. . .. A self-described “social democrat,” Wilson nevertheless adopts some of the assumptions and vocabulary of his conservative opponents...

... reflect an Arab awareness and an appropriation of the power of a categorical post-Holocaust moral vocabulary that had been often used against them. Achcar insists, after all—and here he is building on the insights of Tom Segev, Peter Novick, and Norman Finkelstein among others—that Israel and its...

... national repentance, a term from the religious vocabulary that I am suggesting you use in a Apolitical/social context. In what areas does America need to repent? You know them well, but let me highlight a few: • The pollution of the term “democracy.” We have made it less about...

... after his death, the world’s most popular writer of modern children’s books. He wrote and illustrated forty-four children’s books characterized by memorable rhymes, whimsical characters, and exuberant drawings that encouraged generations of children to love reading and expand their vocabularies. His...

... Law School. ditional guys, so the sharing of deep per­ Judge Lerner and his wife, Bea, came up sonal feelings was still not in our daily to visit this suspicious character who vocabulary. I still called him...

... even become open to the experience of forming an authentic community, in which virtue and authority arc no longer at odds with each other, but reunited in new conditions of freedom.. . . In The Cat in the Hat , with the simple elegance of a 220-word vocabulary, Seuss depicts in powerful symbolic...

... beneficial relationships in the world around us. In order to shift from the fallacies of a mechanistic worldview, we must find new ways to express and practice this recognition. Spretnak notes: [We] hardly have the necessary vocabulary to shift our thoughts and utterances to a more deeply relational...

..., legists, rabbis, and poets—they’ve all been there before, they’ve all done it already. Where does one begin? So many ordinary words carry powerful ancient echoes, so many images or phrases are inseparable from their roots in the sacred texts. And meanwhile, other swaths of vocabulary stand out as modern...

..., give structure to my future, and provide me with a vocabulary, knowledge base, and ability to pursue these ideas and to manifest them in my life. But it was not simply the act of studying it that changed my life. Rather...

..., each other, this community. We create our own vocabulary for this continued healing. ...

.... This mythic vocabulary is expressed in apocalyptic literature in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, which describe the world in upheaval during particularly chaotic and trying times and which spoke to Luther’s world and to ours today. God, Luther said, governs creation in this chaotic situation...

... especially by the deep divide between the older generation, veterans of the movements of the sixties and seventies, now in their sixties or older, and the younger generation, in their early forties or younger. The outlook and vocabulary of the older generation, shaped for the most part by perspectives...

... with great aural warmth, clearly ing, drilling—I’m talking here about gram­ Never lose a holy curiosity. ■ derived from the embers of the Kabbal­ mar, vocabulary, concepts, facts, and ah’s overriding intention of tik/cun. If you techniques...

... in political thought from the progressive vocabulary of the post-World War II era. After World War II, a strong African American civil rights movement fought segregation (including in the armed forces) and institutionalized discrimination. There was some white organizational support...

... of the Crum Woods as a vital habitat — indeed, as a sacred forest — whenever I am graced by its haunting polyphony. To call the Crum Woods a sacred forest may seem odd if one is using traditional religious vocabulary. I will focus on Christianity in this essay, but the other global monotheistic...

... intuitively know the answer—it is an answer that is apparent in the deep disdain that our society seems to have for the homeless, the poor. It is in our vocabulary when we call people “bums” and “whores” or worse. It is in our sideways glances that we say that the person asking for money is a parasite, less...

.... Here, a demonstrator in Chicago protests youth incarceration and the high rates of sexual violence against youth in prison. We live in a society that appears to embrace the vocabulary of “choice,” which is ultimately rooted in a denial of reality. In fact, most people experience daily...