Dave Belden

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Dave Belden is the managing editor of Tikkun. He has a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford, has published a couple of novels, made a living in various ways including professional carpenter (for two decades) and corporate writer (for one), taught college, was president of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, and has written over forty columns on faith and politics for openDemocracy.net. He helped start a chapter of the Network of Spiritual Progressives in Kingston, New York, before moving to Berkeley, California, to join Tikkun. He never imagined he would join another movement with a vision of combining personal transformation with remaking the world, after being raised in the Oxford Group / Moral Re-Armament, but Michael Lerner’s vision was too intriguing, balanced, and utopian to pass up.