CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from June 2002

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from June 2002

That you forget not what your eyes have seen.
June 22, 2002... Of all the public rituals of loss that followed the attacks of September 11, I found myself surprised to tears only by one: the memorials by firefighters in Europe for the firefighters here. That people at a great distance--Hungarians and...

Salvation from innocence: On the requirements of liturgical truth.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... The best liturgy, surely, is the enactment of the most radical public honesty. But let's be quite precise about this. In common parlance the word "honesty" is often used as if it were a straightforward synonym for "sincerity"; or...

"Amen" and "Ashe": African American Protestant worship and its West African ancestor.
June 22, 2002... In this essay I am going to explore and reflect on similarities between the expressions of ecstatic African American liturgy and its foundation within West African Yoruba tradition. Initially, it may seem unlikely that there would be much...

Who's Blessing whom?: Transcendence, agency, and gender in Jewish prayer.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... I am grateful to Warren Zev Harvey, Susannah Heschel, Judith Kates, and Catherine Madsen for stimulating conversations on these issues over the years. Needless to say, they bear no responsibility for my views or errors. Introduction ...

Sometimes you just gotta dance: Physical expressiveness in worship.
June 22, 2002... Jesus said to them: "Unbind him, and let him go." To Dance or Not to Dance A Manhattan-born Friends minister traveled to northwest Alaska and attended a series of services conducted by an old friend of his. The services were held at...

Law as dance, theater, or music: legal procedure and ritual.
June 22, 2002... Especially in times like these when we are bombarded constantly with the most vulgar conceivable images of law--when "justice" is in danger of becoming little more than a euphemism for revenge, and law little more than the machinery of military...

The common word: Recovering liturgical speech.(prayer)
June 22, 2002... The Unbearable Lightness of Praying Not many people today would be willing to accord liturgical writing the status even of a minor art form. For art's sake that would not matter--art will survive either way--but for prayer's sake it does...

Jacques Maritain on the church's misbehaving clerics.
June 22, 2002... In recent months the rash of disturbing revelations concerning sexual abuse of children by priests that dates back over many years has resulted, for a great number of Catholic laity and their priests, in a serious crisis of confidence in the...

The last word on learning Buddhism.
June 22, 2002... I was at the Sunday morning service at the Ch'an Meditation Center. The speaker lectured on and on as we all sat cross-legged on cushions on the carpet. Individuals to the left of me and to the right moved now and then, rearranging their legs,...

Uncomfortable, uncertain, and unarmed.(an artist's view on religion)
June 22, 2002... "On ne va jamais si loin que lorsqu'on ne saitpas ou 1'om va." French Proverb We never go so far as when we don't know where we are going--or so says an old French proverb. An abiding truth about being a writer or an artist is that if...

Two Poems: "Song to the Lamb" and "Antipsalm". (Poetry).(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Two Poems Novica Tadic Song to the Lamb Lamb indestructible lamb You who loaded with crystals crossed the mountain Lamb from the most distant cave Lamb who peed on the black stones Yo-yo turning on the highest...

Two Poems; Prayer: Say What You Can or Go with Art into Your Own Most Narrowness and Ark of God. (Poetry).(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Two Poems. EVA HOOKER Prayer: Say What You Can or Go with Art into Your Own Most Narrowness She looks at her prayer, lifts its sentence: like a spoon of hot soup, a hard knot, a riddle like an old woman who...

Beginner's Mind, Ordinary Mind. (Review Essay).(five books on Zen Buddhism)
June 22, 2002... James Ishmael Ford, In This Very Moment: A Simple Guide to Zen. Boston: Skinner House Books, 2002. l28pp. $14.00 (paper). Robert E. Kennedy Roshi, Zen Gifts to Christians. New York: Continuum, 2001. 144pp. $19.95 (cloth). Soko Morinaga...

Finimondo.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Finimondo PETER HEINEGG "Dies irae, dies illa," Thomas of Celano's thrilla, Catholics know that whole megillah: Judgment's trumpets loud resounding, saints' and sinners' hearts a-pounding, Sheep or goats? Right? Left?...