We often mean different things when we say “God.” Distinguishing between theistic, pantheistic, and panentheistic notions can clarify our discussions.
2014
The God of Process Theology: An Interview with John Cobb
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If we could liberate science from the shackles of an outdated metaphysics, the line between physics and spiritually would be radically blurred.
2014
A Beaked and Feathered God: Rediscovering Christian Animism
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Contrary to public opinion, Christianity is an animist religion that celebrates the enfleshment of God in many forms. Sometimes, the Spirit is a dove!
2014
Ideality, Divine Reality, and Realism
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At its best, theology begins with the experience of the Holy and then presses to a prophetic demand for justice and the good.
2014
God and Goddess Emerging
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In this historical moment, we need to blend a panentheism that recognizes humans as in and part of God with the radical visions of God as YHVH (source of transformation) and El Shaddai (a love-oriented Breasted God).
2014
A Buddhist God?
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Is it right to describe Buddhism as atheistic? Many people do, pointing to the fact that Buddhism doesn’t refer to a creator God. Yet it’s not so simple.
2014
A Ritual Dismantling of Walls: Healing from Trauma through the Jewish Days of Awe
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With their focus on the fragility of walls, the High Holy Days create space for us to dismantle psychological barriers that no longer serve us.
29.3 Summer
The Shadow Side of Freedom: Building the Religious Counterculture
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When did liberal religion start valuing personal autonomy over collective values of love and justice? We need to prioritize a new kind of freedom.
2014
The Empty Throne: Reimagining God as Creative Energy
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God is not an old man who sits on a throne in the sky—God is the creative energy within earth, air, water, plants, animals, and humans!
2014
Visionary Hope
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Another Way of Seeing: Essays on Transforming Law, Politics, and Culture by Peter Gabel
Review by Roger S. Gottlieb
Christianity
Co-Creating a Peaceful World Through Love-in-Action
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A review of Chris Saade’s book Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice, which explores the constructive aspects of globalization.
Articles
Rabbi Zalman and the Making of Seeking the 36
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In 2007 the two of us—novelist Stephen Billias and filmmaker Dennis Lanson—completed our collaboration on a screenplay entitled The 36 about the Lamed Vov, the Thirty-Six Just Men of Jewish folklore. While trying to sell the screenplay, we decided to make a separate documentary film called Seeking the 36 in which we would look for the Lamed Vov living in the world today.
Articles
Shavuot’s Revelation of Self
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Shavuot provides an opportunity to peer deeply into the open self, a process embodied in the receiving of Torah at Sinai. The question is: will you choose to go up?
2014
Loving-Kindness to the Thousandth Generation
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Violence can take on a life of its own, rippling in unexpected directions. But our religious traditions teach us that love proliferates exponentially more.