Tikkun at 25: 8 New Essays & What's Hot in Our Latest Print Issue
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We are pleased to share eight new online exclusive articles in this second edition of our newsletter. If you like what you see here, don’t miss out on the Winter 2011 issue of the print magazine, which is on newsstands now. Subscribe now, or order a single issue, or visit your local bookstore now for this beautiful anniversary issue, which includes a look back at Tikkun covers from the past twenty-five years, fine art, and over fifty articles and poems on healing and transformation by many of your favorite Tikkun authors.
The full table of contents is listed here. Don’t miss psychiatrist Phil Wolfson’s discussion of how psychedelics can aid personal transformation and spiritual growth; famed British literary critic Terry Eagleton’s lively piece on the current vampire mania and the nature of evil; Rev. Lynice Pinkard’s stirring essay on racism, the violence of the police force, and the Spirit of life that enables people to work in solidarity against oppression; Allen D. Kanner on how a small California town is protecting itself from corporate power and pollution; Ulrich Duchrow on a European revival of Liberation Theology; Josh Kornbluth’s humor piece; and more—those articles are waiting for you (online as well as in print) once you subscribe! |
Tikkun Olam in East Jerusalem
by Bradley Burston |
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![]() Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem: Every Sabbath a bit of my faith in the future is restored. And all because an isolated act of tikkun olam has in the course of time become, without intent or design, an integral part of our family's Shabbat ritual. Read More »
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Tikkun and Red-Letter Christians
by Tony Campolo
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![Tikkun Magazine Cover]() Gandhi once told Rufus Jones, the Quaker theologian and missionary to India, that Christians were "so unlike" their Christ. The good news is that there is a growing movement emerging across America (which goes by the name "Red-Letter Christians") whose members are endeavoring to respond to Gandhi's criticism by committing themselves to living out the radical lifestyle that Jesus defined for those who would be His disciples. Read More » |
When Love Trumps Right Belief
by Mary Albert Darling
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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. Read More » |
Five Lessons from Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
by Drew Dellinger |
![Image of Dorothy Day]() 1. If you want to change the world, change the worldview.
To get to the root of our current ecological and social crises, we have to look at the structures of consciousness -- the stories, myths, narratives, and paradigms -- that shape the modern world and inhabit our minds. Read More » |
Making a Difference
by Charles Derber |
![Labor Protest Graphic]() There are five virtues that inspire my own best efforts to heal the world and myself:
1. Connecting Private and Public Problems
We live in a society that psychologizes everything, a hyper-individualistic and therapeutic culture.
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Tikkun Olam Requires the Imagination of Children
by Lois Dickason |
![Hillel image]() The Golden Rule is a moral truth endorsed by all religions. President Kennedy, in his 1963 anti-segregation appeal to Americans, said, "The heart of the question is ... whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated." Tikkun olam applies this to all creation. Read More » |
The Coming of Grace
by Josephine Donovan |
![Conceptual graphic of crossroads of]() Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Protestant theologian executed by the Nazis in 1945, speaks in his book Ethics (published posthumously in 1949) of an "obligation to prepare the way for the coming of grace." "There are," he explains, "conditions of the heart, of life and of the world which impede the reception of grace." Read More » |
Justice, Not Charity
by Peter Dreier |
![]() "Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God." Those words from Micah were engraved on the front wall of my family's Reform Jewish temple in New Jersey. Back in the mid-1960s, when I was in my teens, the Reform movement -- and my congregation -- put those words into practice. Read More » |
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The Nature of Evil
by Terry Eagleton
Shasta and Goliath: Bringing Down Corporate Rule
by Allen D. Kanner
Intimate Struggles, Global Politics
by Margie Jacobs
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