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Adonai-Elohim: The Two Faces of God

When good people suffer, where is God? In this influential piece, Rabbi Harold Schulweis grapples with deep questions about God’s role in the world and in our lives. 

Changing the Equation: A Reflection On God

Rabbi Toba Spitzer offers a reconceptualization of our image of God through the vehicle of process theology.

Process Theology and Seeing the Divine in the Other: A Reading of Brad Artson and Emmanuel Levinas

We find the divine in the face of the other. Everything is interrelated, including God.

Divine Justice: A Jewish Perspective

Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D. spoke at the Chautaqua Insitution about divine justice, about good and evil and about God’s presence, plans, and love in the face of what seems to be unearned suffering. 

The Reconstructionist Revolution: Foundational Ideas

In this hour-long conference call, Rabbi Jane Litman presents an overview of the revolutionary ideas that underlie the first century of Reconstructionist Judaism.

Gender Fluid Shekhinah: It Matters How We Gender God

Which narratives, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors cultivate well-being, and which reinforce systems of persistent and terrible harm?

The World As Sacred Space: Judaic Teachings and Ecological Consciousness

Element of Jewish tradition see the world as inherently sacred. Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb mines these sources as a source for Jewish environmental ethics and theology.

Eco-Theology in the Biblical Tradition

Consciousness of the fruitfulness of Earth was the major way of celebration in biblical times.

Earth, Wind and Fire: The Dueling Pulls of Theology and Religion

Don't let the literal meaning of the words of prayers obstruct your religious experience. And don't let your religious experience keep you from formulating beliefs you can believe in.

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