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If we could liberate science from the shackles of an outdated metaphysics, the line between physics and spiritually would be radically blurred.
Rethinking Religion
Allah
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In the Muslim tradition, God is the Loving, the Evolver, the First, the Last, the Bringer of Life, the Destroyer, the Generous, the Patient, and much more.
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.
29.3 Summer
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).
Rethinking Religion
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.
Rethinking Religion
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!
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.
Education
Beyond the Narrow Straits of Memory
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We must face stories of suffering children, as well as the stories of suffering that we tell to children, in order to understand the religious tropes at work in American culture…. By facing our wounds across boundaries, we can struggle toward the blueprints of rebuilding our memoryscape.
Rethinking Religion
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.
Rethinking Religion
The Tikkun Passover Supplement
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The Jewish liberation holiday, Passover, has messages for anyone seeking to heal the world. This supplement expands on the Haggadah (Seder guide).
Special Web Articles
Jacob, Joseph, and His Brothers: A Story of Child Abuse?
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Almost no one wants to talk about the abuse of children, so it is understandable that almost no one wants to address Jacob’s abuse of Joseph–yet the text itself supports this reading.
Spirituality
Secular Buddhism and the Quest for a Lived Ethics
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Secular Buddhism offers a path that is encompassing, humanistic, and pragmatic, without being sectarian.
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Earth-Honoring Faith
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As we enter an age of ecological catastrophe, we need new theologies. Political campaigns are not enough—we need to rethink our place in the world.
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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.