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Online Exclusives: Identity Politics, Class Politics, and Spiritual Politics

The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Fall 2013 print issue, Identity Politics, Class Politics, and Spiritual Politics: How Do We Build World-Transforming Coalitions? Many of our most provocative articles on this topic appeared in that print issue, which is only accessible to subscribers. Subscribe now to read the subscriber-only print articles on the web (explore the table of contents to see what you’re missing!). If you appreciate the free web-only articles below, please do enable us to keep up this important work by becoming a print subscriber or offering a donation. We will continue to update this page as new web articles in this series come out.

Fall 2013 Table of Contents

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Summer 2013 Table of Contents

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Online Exclusives: Embracing Immigration and Ending Deportation

The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Summer 2013 print issue, Away With All Borders: Embracing Immigration and Ending Deportation. Many of our most provocative articles on this topic appeared in that print issue, which is only accessible to subscribers. Subscribe now to read the subscriber-only print articles on the web (explore the table of contents to see what you’re missing!). If you appreciate the free web-only articles below, please do enable us to keep up this important work by becoming a print subscriber or offering a donation. We will continue to update this page as new web articles in this series come out.

Joshua Bernstein

When he’s not finding fiction for Tikkun, Josh Bernstein is a writer and an assistant professor of English in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of a novel, Rachel’s Tomb, which won the A.W.P. Award Series and Hackney Prizes; a chapbook, Desert Castles, which won the Wilhelmus Prize at Southern Indiana Review; and a forthcoming story collection, Stick-Light. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared widely, including in Shenandoah, Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, Washington Square, and Chicago Quarterly, and won the Gunyon Prize at Crab Orchard Review.  His website is writingwar.com.

Lindsay Bernal

Lindsay Bernal was born and raised in Rochester, New York. She has a BA from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the University of Maryland. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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Spring 2013 Table of Contents

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Justice in the City Table of Contents

Introduction

Justice in the City
ARYEH COHEN
Rabbinic Judaism holds residents of a city responsible for the well-being of every stranger who passes through it. To meet this obligation today would require radical social transformation. Islamic Law and the Boundaries of Social Responsibility
RUMEE AHMED
Medieval rural Muslim jurists called on citizens to personally accompany strangers in need, but urban jurists assumed a different model: care mediated through a welfare state. Let’s draw wisdom from both. We Are One Body: A Christian Perspective on Justice In the City
ALEXANDRA SALVATIERRA
Paul the apostle taught that the people in a society are like the members of one body.

Online Exclusives: Justice in the City

The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles associated with Tikkun’s Winter 2013 special section on “Justice in the City” — Click on the titles below to read these articles. In addition, don’t miss the print issue’s eight subscriber-only articles on this topic, including Aryeh Cohen’s piece, which started this interfaith discussion: subscribe now to read them on the web (explore the table of contents) or order a single copy in the mail. Overcoming the Sexual and Religious Legacies of Slavery
by Bernadette Brooten

A City Where Justice Dwells
by Jill Jacobs

Winter 2014 Table of Contents

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The Death of Christianity: Expanded Version

Lawrence Swaim’s article on “The Death of Christianity” was edited down significantly for publication in the Fall 2012 issue of Tikkun. We invite subscribers and NSP members who are interested in perusing Swaim’s expanded draft to download the Word document below. {{{subscriber|2.00}}} [trackrt]

Click here to download an expanded version of “The Death of Christianity.

Online Exclusives: America Beyond the 2012 Election

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America Beyond the 2012 Election

The Stoker and the Plugger
by Charles Derber

God Sucks as a Campaign Manager
by Greg Palast

They Must Call Us To Sacrifice: A Christian Perspective on the 2012 Election
by Don Shriver

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Essays on Obama
The articles below are responses to the ideas presented in Gary Dorrien’s print article, “Obama in Question,” as well as in his book The Obama Question. Supporting Obama from the Left
by Sheila Davaney

The Moral Priority of the Common Good
by Frank Kirkpatrick

Core Beliefs and Pragmatism in Obama’s Politics
by Peter Paris

Politics and the Limits of Religious Optimism
by Anthony Pinn

On The Obama Question: A Black Womanist Response
by Eboni Marshall Turman

Practical Curiosity and Democratic Leadership
by Sharon Welch