
Chanukuh and Christmas: Honoring the Light
Rabbi Michael Lerner offers a very solid and non-sentimental understanding of Chanukah in a recent article in the Tikkun magazine that he oversees. One point
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Rabbi Michael Lerner offers a very solid and non-sentimental understanding of Chanukah in a recent article in the Tikkun magazine that he oversees. One point

The news that Christmas brings is this: That a child who comes into the world, however unconnected, however poor and insignificant, however unheralded, is a

If Christmas is a verb, as I proposed in my video of yesterday’s DM, then check this news of hope and creativity and transformation. I

Let’s not talk about Jesus at all. Let’s talk about ourselves. Who are we? What is humanity and what are we evolving to be? Who

We are striving to lessen a sentimental Christmas. In her critique of sentimentalism based on the media of the nineteenth century, sociologist Anne Douglas points

We will, as a lead up to Christmas, be focusing on resisting the idolatry of a sentimental Christmas. Sentimentalism wallows in feeling at the expense

We are discussing how a passage from Modern to Post-Modern consciousness is a movement from one value system to another. To recognize this movement as

We are discussing the birthing of light and values in a time of solstice. We often hear talk of how we are living between two

Christmas and Chanuka are both about birthing light in a dark time of the year. The aboriginal people of Australia, probably the most ancient tribe

What we call Christmas is meant to be a celebration of the birth of Wisdom. Might this Christmas be for us a new birth of
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