Tikkun (https://www.tikkun.org/category/home-page-featured/page/6/)
Fourteenth-century mystic and activist Meister Eckhart says “all the names we give to God come from an understanding of ourselves.” If he is correct, then as humanity’s self-understanding and understanding of the cosmos evolve, then clearly our God-names will evolve in response. Rabbi Arthur Waskow reminds us that the Book of Exodus is also known as the Book of Names because God goes through two name changes within its pages.
In trying to answer questions about God for my six-year-old daughter, I have to think of the simplest, most convincing but also truest way to explain complex phenomena. And in that parsing of deep theological conceptions of God, I have rediscovered Him.
And then, there he was again. The chutzpa, calling her, after so many years, his notions of her still intact, his cavalier assumption of intimate knowledge and his selective amnesia. He was not easily put off.
To call God a perspective by which we contract the cosmos mindfully does imply that we participate in God, in the perspective of God.
A review of Chris Saade’s book Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice, which explores the constructive aspects of globalization.
Each star sails like a boat on the waters of the night, sails in a pilgrimage of prayer.
To grow strong, the multifaceted Left in America—including those who call themselves “liberals” or “progressives” as well as others who simply draw upon the central teachings of the Torah to love our neighbors as ourselves—must come together around our shared basic value of interconnection.