by Antonio González and George S. Johnson
2014
Devil’s Advocate: Building the Religious Counterculture
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I have to admit: I enjoyed {title}Atlas Shrugged{/title}. Something about it resonated, even for me, on the far opposite end of the political and religious spectrum.
2014
Sifting Through Assimilation’s Wreckage to Offer Jews Redirection
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Raphael Cohen reviews Schtick by Kevin Coval.
2014
Doing Justice in an Unjust World
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Thad Williamson reviews Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda.
2014
Three Books on Facing Climate Change
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by Joel Magnuson, Lester R. Brown, and James Gustave Speth
2014
When Liturgy Goes Wild, Worship Happens
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Worship should astonish us. That’s why Judson Memorial Church invited a performance artist to play the part of Jesus on Easter Sunday—in the nude.
2014
The Late Great Mosque of Córdoba: When Islam and the West Were One
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Muslim prayer may be forbidden at Córdoba’s Great Mosque, but the guards there can’t keep visitors from spiritual revelations about Spain’s Muslim past.
2014
Violence Against Women: We Need a Transnational Analytic of Care
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When gender-based violence occurs in the Global South, how should feminists in the Global North respond?
Books
The Politics of Jewish Healing
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Penny Rosenwasser’s new book is powerful because it goes beyond explaining how internalized Jewish oppression operates to argue that we need to understand and heal from internalized oppression in order to move toward liberation, build coalitions, and stop enacting trauma on other people, particularly Palestinians.
Fiction & Poetry Articles
Covering the Mirrors
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After a funeral, they were covered with black cloth, / some draped with shawls like a scalloped valance. / … anything to shroud the odd-shaped mirrors, / though sometimes a corner was exposed like a woman / whose ankle peeks forbidden from under a long skirt. A poem by Carol V. Davis.
Articles
The Spiritual Truth of JFK (As Movie and Reality)
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To put the Kennedy assassination in a historical perspective that is both spiritual and political, we here reprint Peter Gabel’s brilliant article on the subject, “The Spiritual Truth of JFK (As Movie and Reality),” originally published in Tikkun in March/April 1992 in response to the original release of Stone’s film.
Fiction
The Lady in Bonesweep
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The longer she read, the longer the effect seemed to last. One lamp. One bed. One smooth flat sky-blue pillow beneath her head. Inside a single cage of ribs, her heart stood still.
Books
Taking Back the Roman Catholic Church
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For many “cradle” Catholics, it is difficult to imagine walking away from the communal liturgies and social ministry that have largely defined our lives yet we are daily losing hope that we will live to see a return to the Church promised by the Second Vatican Council.
Fiction & Poetry Articles
Woolf, West, and the Conundrum of Veterans
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Arguably the two most immediate—and in my judgment, truest—books from the Great War, in spite of Hemingway’s assertion that there were none, were written by authors who not only never set foot on the battlefield; neither of them was a male.
Poetry
A Different Kind of Person
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I encounter a woman from a long way off / Almost every morning when I walk my dog / In a certain park between certain hours / That have not changed the whole season long. A poem by Stuart Dischell.