CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from March 2000

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from March 2000

Living with Paradox.
March 22, 2000... As we planned this anniversary issue, we asked ourselves one question: How many questions are there? After hosting a roundtable discussion at the 1999 ARIL Consultation, badgering our friends, and accosting strangers, the editors at Cross...

How Zen Found Me.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Zen is neither East nor West: it is where you are. In September of 1991, I had a dream. In this dream, I am on the back of an open platform of a train which is about to pull out of a station in India. All my belongings, including my...

The Culture of Religious Combining: Reflections for the New American Millennium.
March 22, 2000... The American religious experience has always been an encounter of multiple traditions. As I write these words, I have just completed co-teaching with B. Alan Wallace--former Tibetan Buddhist monk and now Tibetan Buddhist scholar--a...

The Academy and Hospitality.
March 22, 2000... The concept of hospitality undergirds the very reason for the academy. A key virtue for the academy is hospitality -- the extension of self in order to welcome the other by sharing and receiving intellectual resources and insights. This...

Whose Earth Is It Anyway?
March 22, 2000... Connecting racism with the degradation of the earth is a necessity for the African American community The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it, The world, and those who live in it. --Psalm 24:1 (NRSV) We say the earth is...

Three Poems from a Sequence Suggested by Haydn's "Seven Last Words of Christ".(Poem)
March 22, 2000... I Thirst He tries holding very still. He tries not to move his tongue. His tongue is thick and dry, a log, He tries to hold his thoughts still, tries not to think of water. But his mind fills with pools. In thought,...

The Dialogue Has Barely Begun.
March 22, 2000... A look backward is also a look ahead. People have been kind enough to say that keeping Cross Currents alive all those years since 1950 was an achievement, but looking back at its beginnings offers as many reasons for embarrassment as for...

The Radical Christian Worldview.
March 22, 2000... Radical Christianity is a form of radical humanism and it is focused on this world. Since 1960 I have been a priest in the Church of England, and I remain a priest in good standing. But though I still communicate with the Church, I no...

The End of Philosophy.
March 22, 2000... Contemporary philosophers have given up trying to address the public. Imagine that American colleges and universities decide to shut down all graduate and undergraduate departments of philosophy. The first reaction of philosophers would...

The Challenge of Fundamentalism for Interreligious Dialogue.
March 22, 2000... Interreligious dialogue will never fulfill its unique mission until it recognizes fundamentalisms as conversation partners. Along with the rise of global interreligious dialogue, fundamentalism represents one of the most significant...

Re-conceiving God and Humanity in Light of Today's Ecological Consciousness: A Brief Statement.
March 22, 2000... We need to reorder human life in an ecologically responsible manner, if there is time. I An unspoken presupposition taken for granted throughout much Christian history has been that faith and theology are concerned basically with what...

Christianity, Shamanism, and Modernization in South Korea.
March 22, 2000... In South Korea there is no modernization without Christianity and no Christianity without shamanism. There is no "official," nor one dominant, religion in South Korea. Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity, as well as a whole...

Between the Mystic and the Mainstream.
March 22, 2000... Then numinous is not captive to religion. It can happen to me anywhere--and it does. It is a Saturday morning in early autumn. The light filtering into the synagogue is gentle, golden; the mood contemplative but charged with ruach,...

Akedah 5760.
March 22, 2000... Does God find value in human agony? A few Rash Ha-Shanahs back, I heard a Rabbi deliver a High Holiday sermon entitled "The 'G' Word," which defended that Rabbi's decision to use the term "God" in public. As we begin the millennium --...

A Terrible Beauty: Moser's Bible.
March 22, 2000... The bones do live. There's a certain surprise in seeing intelligence and mercy operate at long range; generally it seems that only massive bureaucratic acts of displacement and destruction can affect many lives at once. We notice goodness,...

Scarcity and Plenitude: Thoughts on Some Recent Jewish Books.
March 22, 2000... Destroying illusions, creating realities. In his 1980 book The Night Sky of the Lord, Alan Ecclestone -- an Anglican clergyman writing to understand the Christian relationship to the fate of the Jews under Hitler -- offered as useful a...

The Future of Faith.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Faith was there at the beginning--why not at the end? Faith has a future. This is, for me, a creedal declaration: of course faith has a future. It has a future precisely because it has so long and so unshakable a past; believing in...

The Church in the Age of the Holy Spirit.
March 22, 2000... The Church authorities do not know what God wants of us. A prophetic Cistercian Abbot in Italy named Joachim of Flores foresaw in the early thirteenth century the total transformation of the Catholic Church and a new form of spiritual life...

Augustine Our Contemporary.
March 22, 2000... Augustine still sheds light in all directions. I was asked recently to review a report on the decennial Anglican Communion's Lambeth Conference, which met in the summer of 1998. This particular conference was especially important for...

Sankofa: [*] Black Theologies.
March 22, 2000... Diversity in black liberative theologies has grown over the years. The Civil Rights Movement was lauded by my parents: Negroes were making progress. As a teenager, I was more impressed by the development of Motown Records: now Negroes were...

The Dawn of Christianness.
March 22, 2000... Is there Christ after Christendom and Christianity? Sunrise would not be dawn if nothing preceded it, nor would sunset be twilight if it did not yield to something else. They mutually suppose each other but are not identical. It is in this...

Black Theology, Black Bodies, and Pedagogy.
March 22, 2000... The black body has both economic and religious importance in North America. I have an interest in theologically thinking through what it means -- epistemologically, institutionally and ritually -- to be African American and religious. Much...

Whence Pluralism, Whither Denominationalism?
March 22, 2000... Differences themselves are a gift from God. I stumbled over the future of pluralism just last week. Literally. I tripped on a Muslim prayer rug tucked not quite far enough beneath a choir pew in the divinity school chapel at our university,...

Jewish Responses to Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Look Ahead to the Twenty-First Century.
March 22, 2000... How have Jews responded to Christian efforts to transform anti-Jewish positions? A retrospective glance at the twentieth century reveals one of the most devastating, challenging, and promising eras in Jewish history. Zionism, the...

Sacred Spaces.
March 22, 2000... Why build cathedrals if a street corner will do? Sacred space is today both more expansive and more dilute. People have widened their claim to worship in "nature" -- hiking a mountain, for example, rather than praying in a sanctuary -- to...

Contemporary Spirituality and the Thinning of the Sacred: A Hindu Perspective.
March 22, 2000... The spiritual is not a diversion. "Know that whatever exists in this changing universe is covered with God." [1] So declares the first verse of the [bar{I}]sa Upanishad, one of Hinduism's oldest and most sacred texts. [*] For the past...

Wheat in Eden, Computers in Our Day.
March 22, 2000... The ecological crisis is an index to changing relationships among God, humans, and all forms of life. When Jews of this past generation began to sense a deepening environmental crisis in earth-human relationships, and especially when they...

Plus Ca Change: Has American Religion Changed during the Past Century?
March 22, 2000... American religious life is not only content, it is also a continuous process. In the year 1900, the United States had without question become a pluralistic society, at least in the minimal sense of possessing a population that had...

Fa Lun Gong and Religious Freedom.
March 22, 2000... If 10,000 Buddhists sat down in Times Square without a permit, what would New York do? There has been a lot of media coverage lately of Zhong Guo's attitude toward political and religious freedom. Articles written for state television and...

About the Cover Art: The Prayer Stick Series.
March 22, 2000... Each morning before I begin to paint, I take a brisk walk through the park. During this winter, I began collecting sticks for no reason that I could name. When I returned to my studio I lit a candle and made my own charcoal with the sticks. As...

The Internet as a Metaphor for God?
March 22, 2000... The Internet provides humanity a new window through which to look upon the Infinite. In her ground-breaking study of human identity in the age of the Internet (Life on the Screen), Sherry Turkle reports that numerous computer users she has...

Notes on Minor Christian Literatures.
March 22, 2000... To see the similar in the dissimilar is the mark of poetic genius. One afternoon Ernst Bloch and Johann Baptist Metz were walking the streets of the city of Munster. As their conversation turned to political theology Bloch pointed to the...

Crossing the Currents, or How I Became a Jewish Postmodernist Feminist.
March 22, 2000... A journey of the spirit begins in the reprint files of Cross Currents. Will you cancel your subscription when I confess that this long-time managing editor of Cross Currents did not originally apply for a job with the Association for...

Three Poems.(Poem)
March 22, 2000... Clematis Sometimes I think you live in my chest, a white clematis in the lattice of my ribs. Where the body is pierced, white blossoms flower. September Passage Like an improbable field of snow on a...

Vietnamese Buddhism in the 1990s.
March 22, 2000... Engaged Buddhism is a source of liberation for Vietnam. Since July 1996, I have made three research trips to Vietnam to examine the 1960s Buddhist movement. In the process, I have discovered the great diversity, vitality and strength of...

The Post-Modern Re-Naming of God as Incomprehensible and Hidden.
March 22, 2000... Rethinking God's reality in post-modern theologies. Post modern movements of thought, precisely as post-modern, have attempted to think the unthought of modernity. By calling into question the forms of modernity's central...