“I have six months to live, maybe less. Jack Miller needs to be punished. He has been a very bad man.”
2013
Once Out of Nature: Life Beyond the Gender Binary
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To truly include transgender people within Abrahamic religious traditions, we have to shatter the idol of the gender binary and face the truth that trans people embody—the truth that the gender binary represents neither the nature of nature, nor the nature of humanity, nor the nature of God.
2013
Fall to Your Knees and Thank God for Your Eyesight
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the repeated words / sometimes made me think twice before / whimpering about a bruise on my knee, / or foolishly I would say the line just when she did…
2013
Resisting Post-Oppression Narratives
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Class exploitation and racial discrimination has diminished in popularity as an explanation for our society’s continuing social inequalities. In its stead, a “post-oppression” ideology and rhetoric has developed, which leaves “distortions” (such as race-based disparities) to the market alone to resolve.
2013
Where Is Home? A Revolution in Our Personal Lives
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Harriet Fraad reviews books by Eric Klinenberg, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Hannah Rosin, and Charles Murray.
2013
Christianity’s Renewal: Tikkun Recommends Fall 2013
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Books by Richard Rohr, Reza Aslan, Naomi Alderman, and David P. Gushee.
2013
Democratizing Wealth, Democratizing Power
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Thad Williamson reviews What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution by Gar Alperovitz.
Articles
Misty
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A teacher is not one person. A teacher is the many voices he speaks and the quicksilver changes among them: the things he says to administrators and the things he says to parents; the things he says to ninth graders and the very different things he says to juniors; the farce and praise and kowtowing and congratulation, all those necessary notes across the register of human speech. We are whatever we are saying.
Books
A Historical Haiku on Human Conflict
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Kirk J. Schneider has written a synopsis of human history that he calls a “historical haiku.” He explains how polarized thinking, rather than observing each other and our world in all its complexities through a lens of mystery and awe, is the root cause of why human beings continue to kill each other. He offers us examples of how fear and the absence of curiosity and awe have made us unable to rise above hatred.
Books
What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?
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When Mohammad Odeh, the terrorist who tried to kill David Harris-Gershon wife, said he was sorry, Harris-Gershon decided to travel to Israel/Palestine to see if Odeh was speaking the truth.
Books
Immigration Stories That Will Belong to America
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The thirteen stories in Lam’s most recent collection, Birds of Paradise Lost, are populated by refugees of the Vietnam War who came to the Bay Area, as well as their children and friends—but each story is a world unto itself. Lam’s characters are haunted by what they have lost, transfixed by embers that still cloud the air with smoke. What Lam explores is the question of whether they can conquer the ghosts, or at least learn to live with them peacefully.