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...panel, titled "Religion and Politics," featured Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine; Jeff Taylor, director of governmental affairs for the Christian Coalition (CC); Jim Wallis, a fellow at the Center for Study of Values in Public Life and editor of Sojourner magazine; Rev. Dr. Albert Pennybacker of the National Coalition of Churches of Christ and Anna Greenberg, assistant professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School...
...There is a notion in Judaism of tikkun olam," Laudor told the Times in 1995, "to heal the world." He felt it was his calling to redeem pariahs, to prove that those afflicted with mental illness could still serve. In the complicated psychochemistry of madness, his very determination may have led to his undoing...
...ideas are presented. This seems akin to disliking Jenny McCarthy because she doesn't do Strindberg. Half hours of current-affairs television--especially those that feature Meat Loaf as a recurring guest--are not meant to leave us feeling as though we've sat down with an issue of Tikkun...
MICHAEL LERNER Editor and publisher of Tikkun, author of The Politics of Meaning...
WHILE THE VIRTUEmeisters of the right enjoin us to post the Ten Commandments in our kitchen and shun the unchaste among our neighbors, the Clintons have been quietly scrambling to come up with a more congenial source of moral guidance. First there was Hillary's philosophical flirtation with Tikkun editor Michael Lerner, inventor of the indefinable "politics of meaning." Then there was Bill's midnight phone seminar with Ben Wattenberg, whose most recent book makes the unstartling claim that Values Matter Most. And popping up now and again among the Clintons' candidates for official moralist of the center-left...