NSP - Current Thinking

Protecting Immigrants through Civil Disobedience

Rabbi Michael Lerner — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:37:07 -0800

Rev. Donna Schaper, the senior minister of Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan, tells of one way in which spiritual progressives can take action to defend immigrants under assault in the Obama years. She should know--she is doing it with her congregants right now!!!

Avatar, Kabbalah, and Saving the Environment

Rabbi Michael Lerner — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:50:19 -0800

Jay Michaelson, whose articles have appeared recently in Tikkun magazine, wrote a very important article for the Jewish Forward that we reprint here.

Overcoming fears of the "others"

Rabbi Michael Lerner — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:16:05 -0800

[1] By Alexandra Pleshoyano, associate professor in spirituality at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada. She is the author of Etty Hillesum: l’amour comme ‘seule solution’. Une herméneutique théologique au coeur du mal, Münster, Lit Verlag, 2007 and J’avais encore mille choses à te demander. L’univers spirituel d’Etty Hillesum, Montreal/Paris, Novalis/Bayard, 2009, she has also published many articles both in French and in English

Interview with Karen Armstrong

Rabbi Michael Lerner — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:43:36 -0800

Religious Dispatches printed this interesting interview with Karen Armstrong

How Obama Turned Off the Very People He Energized in 2008

Rabbi Michael Lerner — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:25:44 -0800

Obama's falling popularity is not due to the appeal of the Right but to his own failure to fight for the things people expected a Democratic President to champion. An analysis posted on AlterNet by Drew Weston repeats themes that Tikkun began to articulate in the full page ad we took in the Washington Post on the 100th day of Obama's presidency. In retrospect, it looks like our analysis was (unfortunately) prophetic.

Tiger Woods' Infidelity to His Responsibilities as a Corporate Brand

Rabbi Michael Lerner — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:04:24 -0800

The media quickly shifted the focus from sexual infidelity to his responsibility to the corporations who had identified with his name.

Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Repression

Rabbi Michael Lerner — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:39:43 -0800

Psychologist Bruce Levine analyzes how Americans have become a broken people.

Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz) on The Settlement Freeze Masquerade

Rabbi Michael Lerner — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:18:42 -0800

Netanyahu's alleged West Bank "Settlement Freeze" is another charade for p.r. purposes, argues Ha'aretz columnist Gideon Levy from Tel Aviv.

NRCAT, National Religious Campaign against Torture

Dave Belden — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:27:52 -0800

Jed Downhill, the NSP's representative to NRCAT outlines what the organization does and how NSP members can help.

Why Palestinians Might Declare Statehood

Rabbi Michael Lerner — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:34:13 -0800

Jeff Halper's analysis is important to help understand current developments in Israel/Palestine.