The fact that “awe” and its variants are flooding our vocabulary is a welcoming sign that a fuller and deeper sensibility of “awe” is reemerging in our culture.
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A Brainy Seder: Four Questions that Guide Us to One Brain, One People and One God
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On all other Passover nights, we just read the Haggadah but on this night, we will create a special link between spirit and body, blessing and eating by examining Passover through the scientific understanding of our brain. Interpersonal Neurobiology connects our brains, minds and relationships.
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Free Associations on the Four Sons
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Dusting off my Haggadah several months early, I was once again intrigued with the nuances of the parable. Far from being a simple description of four types of children, I now saw the parable as offering profound insight into the elements that impact the development of the child, and by extension, the formation and potential for transformation of the world.
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Why Retell the Passover Narrative?
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Or Rose reviews Arthur Waskow and Phyllis Berman’s new book, “Freedom Journeys: The Tale Of Exodus And Wilderness Across Millennia.”
2011
Passover Haggadah Supplement 2011
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Every year Tikkun publishes a Haggadah supplement for Passover. This year we only published the first part of it in the print magazine (the two pages pictured at right) and promised that the entire haggadah would be published online, here, in time for Passover. We wrote:
FOR YOUR SEDER, here is a Haggadah supplement—not a replacement. If you don’t normally do a Seder, you can use this supplement as the basis for an interfaith gathering in your home on April 18, the first night of Passover, or on any of the other nights of Passover until it ends on April 26. The bulk of this supplement can be found online at tikkun.org/passoversupplement.
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How the Ari Created a Myth and Transformed Judaism
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How is it that a concept rooted in medieval Jewish mysticism has so endeared itself to contemporary Jews? Howard Schwartz retells the myth of the “Shattering of the Vessels” and explains how it created a foundation for modern-day tikkun olam.
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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?
2011
Another Word on “God and the Twenty-First Century”
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What if God emerges from and evolves with us?
2011
Truth, Illumination, and Nuclear Weapons
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The highest spiritual truths include this one: Don’t Kill Everybody.
2011
A European Revival of Liberation Theology
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What should Christianity be saying about global capitalism?
2011
The Nature of Evil
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So why is evil so sexy, and so profoundly glamorous? And why does virtue seem so boring? Why is it that when I told my thirteen-year-old son I was writing a book on evil, he replied “Wicked!”?
2011
Truth
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When I began living as a woman, my children’s world split open. As the truth of my gender collided with the truth of their pain at losing the man they loved, it seemed there was no world we could inhabit together — until love taught us that no matter what gender I expressed, I would always be their father.
2011
The Coming of Grace
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Literature and literary criticism, by bringing to light lost, silenced voices, makes their existence known, thus enabling that ethical caring attention be paid to them. In recent years I have focused on retrieving the silenced existence of nonhuman animals as beings worthy of such attention.
2011
Prophetic Voices Should Be Bold
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I think it is wrong for the voices of moderation to be constrained by an idealistic sense of duty to absolute accuracy, balance, and openness to opposing views. Hmm, ouch, that was hard to write; are we not the people who “eat brown rice and are always nice”?
2011
When Love Trumps Right Belief
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Each of us has directives we live by. The directive to love is at the very heart of most faith traditions, along with being the first and foremost standard to live by for many who do not profess a specific religious belief.