If we could liberate science from the shackles of an outdated metaphysics, the line between physics and spiritually would be radically blurred.
2014
Online Exclusives: Thinking Anew About God
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The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Spring 2014 print issue, Thinking Anew About God. 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.
2014
A Beaked and Feathered God: Rediscovering Christian Animism
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Contrary to public opinion, Christianity is an animist religion that celebrates the enfleshment of God in many forms. Sometimes, the Spirit is a dove!
2014
Ideality, Divine Reality, and Realism
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At its best, theology begins with the experience of the Holy and then presses to a prophetic demand for justice and the good.
2014
God and Goddess Emerging
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In this historical moment, we need to blend a panentheism that recognizes humans as in and part of God with the radical visions of God as YHVH (source of transformation) and El Shaddai (a love-oriented Breasted God).
2014
A Buddhist God?
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Is it right to describe Buddhism as atheistic? Many people do, pointing to the fact that Buddhism doesn’t refer to a creator God. Yet it’s not so simple.
2014
Readers Respond: Letters from Summer 2014
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A NOTE ON LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
We welcome your responses to our articles. Send your letters to the editor to letters@tikkun.org. Please remember, however, not to attribute to Tikkun views other than those expressed in our editorials. We email, post, and print many articles with which we have strong disagreements, because that is what makesTikkun a location for a true diversity of ideas. Tikkun reserves the right to edit your letters to fit available space in the magazine.
AIPAC AND IRAN
I was very disappointed in M. J. Rosenberg’s post “The Israel Lobby Is Killing Iran Negotiations in Favor of War” on Tikkun Daily.
29.3 Summer
The Shadow Side of Freedom: Building the Religious Counterculture
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When did liberal religion start valuing personal autonomy over collective values of love and justice? We need to prioritize a new kind of freedom.
2014
A Ritual Dismantling of Walls: Healing from Trauma through the Jewish Days of Awe
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With their focus on the fragility of walls, the High Holy Days create space for us to dismantle psychological barriers that no longer serve us.
2014
The Empty Throne: Reimagining God as Creative Energy
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God is not an old man who sits on a throne in the sky—God is the creative energy within earth, air, water, plants, animals, and humans!
2014
Visionary Hope
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Another Way of Seeing: Essays on Transforming Law, Politics, and Culture by Peter Gabel
Review by Roger S. Gottlieb
2014
Midterm Elections 2014
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After years of Obama’s capitulation to the corporate, military, and “security” elites, Dems may have a hard time selling themselves as populist champions.
2014
Trauma Legacies in the Middle East
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What happens when you put a daughter of the Holocaust among Arab trauma workers just back from the Syrian crisis? A powerful personal story.