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... to speak some about Easter nakedness and worship, and to go on to name a half dozen other events in which worship left the tomb of formality, boundaries, and control. I want to rejoice in these wild liturgies that brought us to the true in the true. Mari Meade Montoya Dancing in the nude during...

... and valorizes power over others as the ultimate “realism” to which post-Holocaust Jews must be subservient. Settler Judaism is the contemporary form of idol worship that has the greatest appeal to twenty-first-century Jews who see the world through the framework of the past suffering of our people. As I...

... to provide the people with whom I worshipped experiences to which they could give themselves—experiences that they could bring with them into their own places of worship. This approach also has a bearing on how we understand Halachah in each one of those earlier periods and how we have to adapt the practice...

...Donna Schaper Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 E verybody wants to know what is next for the Occupy movement, and no one knows. Nor may we. Nor will we. Nor should we. What Occupy has done is reinvigorate the art of the surprise, the craft of worship and ritual, the soul force...

...HAROON MOGHUL Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 T here’s nothing ,” as the Qur’an vows, “like the likes of Him” (42:11). This is precisely why Muslims worship Him, but also why we think our relationship to Him so indispensable. For this article, I’ll turn to three sources — the Qur’an’s...

.... Without fully and ritually converting, many such people would like to have a social bond with us Renewal Jews. W hen they attend our worship services they often find welcome...

... fathomable and no matter by what name or form worship It, all modes and of It, all forms or and by worship form modes worship name no matter what and fathomable Hindu world, he is taught...

... just need to grab it, talk about it, and live by our faith teachings. GreenFaith, an interfaith environmental organization, is one group (started in the United States and now expanding) that offers practical resources for houses of worship that want to put environmental faith teachings into practice...

... to “When Liturgy Goes Wild, Worship Happens” by Donna Schaper in the Winter 2014 issue). Yes, Christianity is about freedom, but not freedom to do whatever you want, no matter how ridiculous. It is about freedom from the guilt and eternal penalty of sin, as well as the bondage to sin. The article goes...

... lurking around, they’d better get the hell out of our way. Now suddenly this commandment voices a powerful progressive ideal. We may have many things that we value, but if we worship anything it should be the power of liberation in our world. Liberation from poverty, liberation from war, liberation...

..., but a slave. A her day. If it were today she’d say, “So, what do you think of slave girl. And she is liberated from slavery. And then you watch homosexuality?” The hot-button issue at that time was, “Which the message spread upward until the magistrates of the city are mountain do you worship...

... the Left’s most articulate and insightful critic of America’s distorted political life, highlighting its authoritarian turn and the political illiteracy that our culture fosters and that the media helps channel into racism, the worship of money and power, and an ethos of survival-of-the-fittest that produces...

... inequalities and an outward-looking struggle against Arab enemies and Palestinians seeking to return to their place of birth. That choice became even more intense in 1977 when Likud and its Thatcherite, Milton Friedman-esque worship of the free market took over. This worship shaped government policies, slowly...

... is God hiding in my story? “My life is a struggle between avodah zarah (idol worship) and avodat hashem (worship of God),” Weinberg writes. “It is my constant choice to embrace my humanness. It is my regular practice to open to something greater than my own tale of woe.” Throughout the book...

... activated in nature. This is the same son who, when he was five, asked, “Are God and Mother Nature married, or just good friends?” Great questions. Most religious traditions, especially in indigenous cultures, intimately or actively offer ways to discover the divine in the natural world. Some people worship...

... singing in a shower of glory.” In a prose poem, Merton echoes the Romantic view of the poet as a worshipper and prophet of the spirit of nature: “My worship is a blue sky and ten thousand crickets in the deep wet hay of the field. My vow is the silence under their song.” For Merton, the ultimate...