Suddenly I realize I have a new favorite writer. It's not like I ever expect to suddenly have a new favorite anything.| Literary Kicks
Right-wing and left-wing pro-Russian parties undermine the West’s willingness to defend themselves by posing as consistent friends of peace. In doing so, they make use of the nimbus of pacifism as a fundamentally honorable attitude. But in fact, pacifism has already in the 20th century played a predominantly devastating role. Because a consistent pacifist attitude could only be maintained […] Der Beitrag Why there is a Link between Pacifism and Totalitarianism erschien zuerst auf Herz...| Herzinger.org
From Kyiv to Gaza to Washington, the world we live in seems to challenge an […]| Foundation for European Progressive Studies
Genocide is happening again in more than one region of planet earth today. We talk about this on the latest World BEYOND War podcast episode ...| Literary Kicks
In 1906, two years after Herzl’s death, a year after the first Russian revolution, and a few years since Aaron Shmuel Tamares (1869-1931) returned despondent from the Fourth Zionist Congress in London in 1900, he published an essay entitled (“Herut” – “Liberty”), an extended meditation on Passover as a “festival The post A Passover Interlude: The Difference between Freedom and Liberation: Reflections on Aaron Shmuel Tamares’ essay “Herut/Liberty” (1906) appeared first on J...| Jewschool
How is the peace movement changing? How is our vision of the future changing? Online communities offer a distinctive, robust and appealing model for human coexistence that people intuitively and immediately understand.| Literary Kicks
I threw the I Ching for America the other day. This is a good spiritual practice when you come to a moment in your life when things are changing fast and you want to get a grip on what’s happening.| Literary Kicks
In this post, I will contradict the purported scriptural basis for complete nonresistance and point out and explain some more of Jesus’ hyperbole used in Matthew chapter 5. This post is a follow-on, building upon my first post in this series. If you haven’t read it, you will want to read it first. My Mennonite … Continue reading Do we “Resist the devil” or “Resist not evil”?| Laughing at Feminism
What is the role of the ethical principles in the Talmud in creating modern Jewish thought? Gerald (Yaakov) Blidstein, a former Professor at Ben Gurion University thought that these principles sat uneasily into the Talmud with its former system of … Continue reading →| The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:
When many of us look back on the progress of the last 30 years, we can’t escape the eerie sense that the Internet revolution we lived through only left us stuck more stubbornly than ever in a broken past.| Literary Kicks
I was already thinking about Columbia University, where courageous students are calling out the college administration's support for genocide in Gaza, when I heard Paul Auster had died of cancer at the age of 77 in his home in Brooklyn.| Literary Kicks
Contrary to Yoder’s theology of authorities, the governmental role of violent judgment does not make them inherently evil. While it is clear that Christians should not participate in war, it would …| Constantly Reforming
Apart from praying and proclaiming the Word, is a Christian to remain mute in the face of evil throughout the world? Psalm 139 gives a valuable example. Written in the aftermath of the Exile, there…| Constantly Reforming
Judih Weinstein Haggai, a huge-hearted haiku poet, teacher, mother, grandmother and longtime friend of Literary Kicks, has been missing since October 7 from Kibbutz Nir Oz near the border of Gaza where she lived with her husband Gad. We have been waiting since that terrible day in hope that Judih and Gad are still alive. […]| Literary Kicks
A weird thought occurs to me, as the summer of 2023 rolls in: Literary Kicks turns 29 years old this July. Which can only mean we'll be having a 30th birthday next year ...| Literary Kicks