THE NEW UNIVERSE AND THE HUMAN FUTURE: HOW A SHARED COSMOLOGY COULD TRANSFORM THE WORLD by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack, Yale Press, 2011.
Articles
Educating for Peace
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Overcoming violence is one of the great intellectual, moral, and spiritual challenges we face as a human community — yet U.S. schools rarely see peace-building as their goal. It’s time for us to rethink our understanding of the purpose of education.
Articles
Toward a Counter-Imperial Faith
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Christians in Egypt joined with Muslims during the February 2011 protests that drove U.S.-backed Hosni Mubarak from power. Will U.S. Christians now find the courage to follow their lead and stand with the pro-democracy movements in Egypt, Libya, and beyond?
Art
Visionary Art: A Traveler in the Torah
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A review of BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH: AN ILLUMINATED TORAH COMMENTARY by Ilene Winn-Lederer.
Activism
From the Vietnam War to Species Suicide: Thoughts on a 50th High School Reunion
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There may be nothing more devastating than the phenomenon of “generational betrayal.” The clash between what we had grown up believing and what we experienced destroyed our individual internal moral universes and fatally divided our generation.
2011
Libya: Acid Test for Nonviolence?
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Open warfare has already broken out in Libya: the scale and stage of the violence are extreme. Yet there is still a way to respond that, while extremely difficult to pull off, could be called nonviolent.
Articles
Personas, Personalities, and Hybrids on the Screen
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A look at some adventurous films that acknowledge the gap between art and actuality, and try to bridge it by allowing real people with authentic emotions and experiences into their stories. A review of TINY FURNITURE, IFC Films, 2010; PUTTY HILL, Cinema Guild, 2010; and ON THE BOWERY, Milestone Film and Video, 1957.
2011
Tales of Morality and Meaning in an Age of Global Warming
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Some years ago I met a man who, over a single cup of ginger-mint tea, shook my deepest assumptions about the process of moral conversation. His name was Samuel Prana.
2011
Holding the Wound, Holding out Hope: Understanding the Neurobiology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Trauma runs through the lives of Israelis and Palestinians like a branching nerve. It is imperative that an understanding of trauma’s impact and healing form the foundation of all that guides negotiations for peace.
2011
Curative Songs
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Like Kafka’s parables and the enigmatic, humane tales of Rabbi Nachman, Rodger Kamenetz’s Burnt Books has an economical generosity that is thoroughly secular, deeply religious, and seriously joking.
2011
The Egyptian Movement for Democracy and Jewish Communal Ambivalence
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The momentous changes taking place now in the Middle East provide Israel with a new moment to leave behind its historical fear responses and instead lead the way in welcoming the leaders of these new Arab protest movements.
Articles
A Refreshing Perspective on the Wives of Muhammad
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UNTOLD: A HISTORY OF THE WIVES OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD by Tamam Kahn, Monkfish, 2010
2011
A European Revival of Liberation Theology
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What should Christianity be saying about global capitalism?
2011
Formative Culture in the Age of Imposed Forgetting
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The cultural politics of casino capitalism has numbed our sense of social and moral responsibility. Against this moral coma, with its theater of cruelty and legalized irresponsibility, we need to recast the language of politics.
2011
Shasta and Goliath: Bringing Down Corporate Rule
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Mt. Shasta, a small northern California town of 3,500 residents nestled in the foothills of magnificent Mount Shasta, is taking on corporate power through an unusual process — democracy.