1. Give up. 2. Devote a large portion of your life to avoiding the subject. 3. Respond to a mid-life crisis by seeking comfort in tradition while at the same time avoiding the constraints of religious practice…
Articles
Love the Life–and Activism–You’re In
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“Awakening Joy: Ten Steps that Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness” by James Baraz and Shoshana Alexander: Review by Margie Jacobs
2010
Undiscovered No Longer
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“The Undiscovered Paul Robeson” by Paul Robeson Jr.: Review by Paul Von Blum
2010
ESRA: An Opportunity to Reshape the World
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We have been discussing how we can get members of Congress involved in an Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the Constitution (ESRA). And so what I did over the past few months was to look at the principles and to draft a resolution. The idea is this: we take the principles in the ESRA, and we put them in a congressional resolution asking members of Congress to support the principles, and from there we can work to draft specific legislation for a constitutional amendment.
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Eco-Enchantment and the Limits of Conservation
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“A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship With Nature” by James William Gibson and “Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples” by Mark Dowie: Reviews by Roger S. Gottlieb
2010
Response to Noach Dzmura
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Dzmura’s arguments stand no chance of being adopted by the American mainstream any time soon. If we want to “move the needle” of public opinion, we need to make more moderate ones.
2010
A Progressive Religious Agenda Toward Gay Rights – A Response to “Ten Reasons Why Gay Rights Is a Religious Issue” by Jay Michaelson
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Essentialist arguments may win compassion from heterosexuals, but they don’t reflect reality. Let’s render marginal the idea that homosexuality is sin.
2010
Why a New Translation of the New Testament?
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As a Greek scholar, I undertook a new translation of the New Testament to give a chastely modern, literary version of a major world text.
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High Holiday Workbook
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Repentance is good for the soul, and for our activism. Use this workbook—whether you’re Jewish or not—to reflect on this past year and how you can deepen your life in the next one.
2010
Ever Dying, Never Dead – That’s Life!
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On Yom Kippur we strive to be angels, but we are also reminded of our essential difference from them.
2010
Economics for a Global Community — A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz
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In this conversation U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, endorses economic equality and workplace democracy, and discusses how to accomplish the Network of Spiritual Progressives’ economic goals, with which he sympathizes.