Riotous diversity is central to Hinduism: taken together, its panoply of local gods and goddesses represent the many manifestations of the unity of Being.
2014
What Takes the Place of What Used to Be Called God?
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We often mean different things when we say “God.” Distinguishing between theistic, pantheistic, and panentheistic notions can clarify our discussions.
2014
The God of Process Theology: An Interview with John Cobb
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If we could liberate science from the shackles of an outdated metaphysics, the line between physics and spiritually would be radically blurred.
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
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
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
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Rabbi Zalman and the Making of Seeking the 36
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In 2007 the two of us—novelist Stephen Billias and filmmaker Dennis Lanson—completed our collaboration on a screenplay entitled The 36 about the Lamed Vov, the Thirty-Six Just Men of Jewish folklore. While trying to sell the screenplay, we decided to make a separate documentary film called Seeking the 36 in which we would look for the Lamed Vov living in the world today.
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Shavuot’s Revelation of Self
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Shavuot provides an opportunity to peer deeply into the open self, a process embodied in the receiving of Torah at Sinai. The question is: will you choose to go up?
2014
Loving-Kindness to the Thousandth Generation
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Violence can take on a life of its own, rippling in unexpected directions. But our religious traditions teach us that love proliferates exponentially more.
2014
The Tikkun Passover Supplement
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The Jewish liberation holiday, Passover, has messages for anyone seeking to heal the world. This supplement expands on the Haggadah (Seder guide).
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The Tao of Torah
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More than a decade ago I was invited to join a monthly Torah study group in the San Francisco Bay Area that met at the homes of the group members. All of the members were currently or had once been affiliated with Jewish Renewal, a spiritual movement born in the 1960s that integrates Kabbalistic mysticism with modern, progressive values. In the group were therapists, teachers, lawyers, a nurse, a computer programmer, and a business consultant. Several members had at one time been involved with Eastern religions. I felt honored and delighted to join this circle of committed lovers of Torah.