Edmond H. Weiss reviews Judaism’s Great Debates: Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl by Barry L. Schwartz.
2014
Three Books Responding to the Repercussions of Slavery
|
by Frederick Douglas, Byron Williams, and Jeannine Bell
2014
Two Books about Grassroots Alternatives for Building a New World
|
by Antonio González and George S. Johnson
2014
Devil’s Advocate: Building the Religious Counterculture
|
I have to admit: I enjoyed {title}Atlas Shrugged{/title}. Something about it resonated, even for me, on the far opposite end of the political and religious spectrum.
2014
Sifting Through Assimilation’s Wreckage to Offer Jews Redirection
|
Raphael Cohen reviews Schtick by Kevin Coval.
2014
Doing Justice in an Unjust World
|
Thad Williamson reviews Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda.
2014
Three Books on Facing Climate Change
|
by Joel Magnuson, Lester R. Brown, and James Gustave Speth
Books
The Politics of Jewish Healing
|
Penny Rosenwasser’s new book is powerful because it goes beyond explaining how internalized Jewish oppression operates to argue that we need to understand and heal from internalized oppression in order to move toward liberation, build coalitions, and stop enacting trauma on other people, particularly Palestinians.
Books
Taking Back the Roman Catholic Church
|
For many “cradle” Catholics, it is difficult to imagine walking away from the communal liturgies and social ministry that have largely defined our lives yet we are daily losing hope that we will live to see a return to the Church promised by the Second Vatican Council.
2013
Where Is Home? A Revolution in Our Personal Lives
|
Harriet Fraad reviews books by Eric Klinenberg, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Hannah Rosin, and Charles Murray.
2013
Christianity’s Renewal: Tikkun Recommends Fall 2013
|
Books by Richard Rohr, Reza Aslan, Naomi Alderman, and David P. Gushee.