| New essays by Schneider, Schaper, Rushkoff, Rothberg, Premawardhana, Ponet, Peterson, and Oxenberg |
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It's not too late to register for Tikkun's 25th Anniversary Celebration! The main festivities take place Monday evening, March 14, at 6:30 pm at UC Berkeley's Pauley Ballroom. Join us for music, poetry, spoken word, and the presentation of the Tikkun Award! Click here to register now.
We are also pleased to share with you the eight new anniversary pieces below -- don't miss these moving reflections on how to heal and transform the world.
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Authentic Vulnerability and Deep-Rooted Healing
by Julie Oxenberg |
   I'm increasingly struck by the realization that so much of what currently ails and threatens our world is associated with a misperception about the realm from which the greatest source of power, security, and value actually emanates; rather than recognizing this to be the realm of spirit, particularly the human spirit, humanity tenaciously clings to the belief that "real" protection, strength, and worth can only come from the realm of material itself. Read More » |
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Pure Consciousness and the Work of Tikkun
by Bruce Peterson
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 What lesson have I learned about how to do the work of healing and transforming the world? In a nutshell: "The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor." (I don't usually quote corporate CEOs, but Bill O'Brien of Hanover Insurance and his search for virtue warrant an exception.) This has been my experience. The loftiest ideals, the most far-reaching agenda, the best rhetoric -- all are for naught if pursued in a spirit of ego enhancement, judgment, and ideological zeal. Read More » |
Keep Your Eye on the Jewish People
by James Ponet |
 Tikkun olam may be compared to an ongoing process of editing, revising, and correcting that can and will at times stall into stunned stasis or meander into depressed paralysis. Those times are useful, for they may serve as seasons of sowing new visions, new pathways. Read More » |
Christian Openness to Interreligious Dialogue
by Shanta Premawardhana |
 As an avid reader of Tikkun I am pleased to offer a short reflection from a Christian perspective on the pursuit of just peace, as well as encourage my fellow Christians to read this magazine either in print or online.
The World Council of Churches, a global fellowship of 349 churches belonging to the Orthodox and Protestant families of faith, has throughout its sixty-two-year history worked for peace in many parts of the world.Read More » |
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Connect Inner and Outer Transformation! by Donald Rothberg
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 The profound challenges of our times call out for the formation of a critical mass of those deeply committed to the interconnection of inner and outer transformation. Without the integration of our spiritual and social lives, we will find neither mature spirituality nor effective social action. It is time to move on to a postmodern, integrative, and socially engaged spirituality that might integrate the main achievements of modernity. Read More » |
The Limitations of Rug-Pulling
by Douglas Rushkoff |
 You have to engage with people where they are -- not where you want them to end up.
I wasted a lot of time and energy trying to tell people what I believed was the absolute truth about pretty much everything. I have too often used a take-no-prisoners approach to conversation. This reaches few, disturbs many, and leaves everyone frustrated. Read More » |
My Minimalist Jesus
by Donna Schaper |
 The only advice I have for a young tikkunista is this: Stay minimal in your claims about religion. Stay maximal about love, passion, and the Golden Rule we all share.
What has been great about writing for Tikkun over the years is that I didn't have to be quiet about Jesus. That freedom has allowed me to become more clear about my minimalist Jesus. No General Motors, General Foods, Fox News imperial Jesus for me! Read More » |
Bringing Awe-Based Consciousness to Psychotherapy
by Kirk J. Schneider |
 My resonance with tikkun olam relates to what I call "awe-based" psychology. By awe-based psychology I mean those theories and practices that reflect the humility and wonder or, in short, adventure of living. I also mean those theories and practices that prize the gift of living as well as its mysteries and conundrums. Read More » |
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Formatting Culture in the Age of Imposed Forgetting
by Henry A. Giroux
Kavanah
by Marge Piercy
Turning Tikkun Olam into Action by George Vradenberg
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