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Thomas Merton, America Has Need of You

Thomas Merton, America Has Need of You

John Smelcer argues that America needs people who, like Thomas Merton, "realize that protest is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it."
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Analog Body in a Digital World: What Have You Got to Lose?

Lisa Martinovic explores the frightening long-term neurological consequences of digital devices on our bodies.
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Social Gospel or Prosperity Gospel: A Forum

Shaul Magid argues––and other scholars respond to his claim––that "American Jews are fighting an uphill battle against privilege at the same time many are devoted to maintaining it."
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The New Global Tinderbox

The New Global Tinderbox

Michael Klare argues that we can avert a new world war only if we recognize it as "a central danger of our time, potentially even more dangerous than the Cold War era, given the three nuclear-armed great powers now involved."
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Blood Chocolate, Lessons from Zazu Dreams

Blood Chocolate, Lessons from Zazu Dreams

Cara Judea Alhadeff reminds us that social and environmental justice are inseparable, and asks us to "consider the links between many of the popular brands of chocolate and child slavery" when buying Halloween candy.
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The Last Holiday

Jon Swan reports on travel's disastrous effects on the environment, and argues that we are "doomed unless we radically alter our priorities." And Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times, shows how Swan's warnings apply directly to environmental tourists flying to Nepal.
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Suffer the Little Children

Through the lens of Trump's Zero Tolerance policy, Michael Bader examines how we can channel our pain and empathy that are "fueled by feelings that originate in the deepest recesses of our psyches and find expression in a progressive political campaign."
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The Gradual Acceleration of Fascist Violence by Peter Gabel

Hanukah is NOT Hypocrisy by Rabbi Michael Lerner

Global Capitalism

Global Capitalism Causing Economic Disasters in Mexico and Many Other Countries
by Tikkun Readers

Judaism

Hanukah is NOT Hypocrisy–Despite What the NY Times Published on Sunday, Dec. 2nd
by Rabbi Michael Lerner

Judaism

The Dreidel-a-gram, or the 4 Laws of Money and Who We Are and Can Be at Any Moment – As the Spinning Stops
by Phil Wolfson

Spiritual Politics

Thomas Merton, America Has Need of You
by John Smelcer

Reviews

“As ‘Infinity Goes on Trial’, All There Is – Is”
by Aubrey L. Glazer

Welcome and Support the Exodus Asylum Seekers now Being Tear-Gassed by American Border Guards (oy!)
by Michael Lerner

Culture

How to be More Effective at a Thanksgiving Gathering This Year
by Rabbi Michael Lerner

Economy/Poverty/Wealth

The Sequel: life after economic growth
by Shaun Chamberlin

War & Peace

The boy who taught me about war and peace
by Ariel Dorfman

Poetry

Let’s Shoot
by Hilton Obenzinger

Poetry

Things Made of Brass
by Liz Marlow

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Political Vision and Spiritual Wisdom Rabbi Michael Lerner

Editorials & Actions
Core Vision
Spiritual Wisdom

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Tikkun/NSP Core Vision for Political and Social Change
The Spiritual Covenant With America
The Politics of Meaning
A Foreign Policy Based on Generosity Not Domination: The Global Marshall Plan
Remove corporate money from elections and ensure corporate responsibility: Pass the ESRA, the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution!
The Spiritual Dimension: Toward a Unifying Progressive Vision
Healing Israel-Palestine
Abiding Perspectives by Tikkun authors and others
Tikkun and NSP Music
ESRA–the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
The Psychopathology of the 2016 Election
The Worldview of Tikkun and nour NSP–Network of Spiritual Progressives
The State of the Spirit, 2011
The Presence of Living Organisms
Forgiveness
Spiritual Awakening, a New Economy, and the End of Empire

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