To form a powerful anti-war movement, we need to bridge the gap between U.S. veterans and pacifists. Collaborating on a veteran liberation theology is one place to start.
2013
What’s Next in Faith-Based Community Organizing: A Rolling Jubilee
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Does life in our debt-driven political economy make your faith feel fraudulent? Debt cancellation is the biblical norm. We need a jubilee to release us from our shame.
2013
Reimagining Judaism: The Great Teshuvah
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It’s time to usher in a new paradigm–one of the turning and returning to the earth, to each other, and to integrity.
2013
How Ancient Religions Can Help Us Transcend the Civilization of Greedy Money
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We are facing a global crisis created by capitalism. The world’s religions–having emerged in response to the growing power of money in the Axial Age–can help us face it.
2013
The Mondragón Cooperatives: An Inspiring Economic Hybrid
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Sixty years ago, the Basque region was the poorest area of Spain. Today, thanks to local cooperatives, it is the richest–and the wealth is shared.
2013
A Spiritual Way of Seeing
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Most of the theories we use to understand social reality overlook the power of humanity’s desire for community and connection. We need a new narrative behind our efforts to heal the world.
2013
Her Books: Moving My Mother’s Library to Al-Quds
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What do you do with your parents’ possessions? What do you do with their cherished collections of a lifetime?
2013
Envisioning a Thoughtful and Caring Child Welfare System
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Let’s build a foster care system that nurtures each child’s creativity, capacity for joy, and emotional wellness. Here’s how.
2013
Spring 2013 Table of Contents
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2013
Online Exclusives: Justice in the City
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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
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Overcoming the Sexual and Religious Legacies of Slavery
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Because of the U.S. history of slavery, assumptions about the sexuality of African American women in the United States differ from those made about European American women. The sexual stereotype of enslaved women as licentious extends far back into history; modern racism extended it to all Black women and also used the myth of Black hypersexuality as a reason to enslave Black people.
2013
Co-ops: A Good Alternative?
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Historically, the co-op model has offered a workplace theory far superior to capitalism. Not driven by the profit motive, co-ops ought to be worker-empowering, democratic, healthier, less expensive, and more responsive to employee and community needs— valuable traits during this period of capitalist meltdown.
2013
How Do We Get Money Out of Politics?
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Michael Lerner’s editorial is too critical of the Move to Amend Movement, when what is needed is strong support for it, while recognizing its limitations. In some circumstances a reform effort can be very close to a full embracing of the ideals.
2013
Introduction to the Justice in the City Section
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Geographical Borders and the Ethical and Political Boundaries of Responsibility
What would happen if we took seriously the biblical idea that we are responsible for the well-being of everyone who has passed through our city, even if only momentarily? In our me-first society—structured as it is by the capitalist imperative to “look out for number one”—our notion of responsibility for others is painfully limited. In the pages that follow, Aryeh Cohen envisions a new social justice ethos rooted in Rabbinic Judaism’s idea of accompaniment—the idea that we must personally care for all the people who enter our shared, common space. And we are delighted to print responses and critiques from a variety of thinkers and activists. This discussion implicitly challenges legal philosopher John Rawls’s conception of “justice as fairness” by introducing into Western legal thought the notion of justice as caring for other human beings.
2013
The Sudden Angel Affrighted Me: God Wrestling in Denise Levertov’s Life and Art
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Doubt and uncertainty for Levertov often took the form of questioning a God who could allow so much suffering and injustice in the world. There was a light in her eyes and a sense of ease in her body. It seemed to me that she had found a deep peace and an abiding sense of the presence of the divine.