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Network of Spiritual Progressives

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United WE Stand! Imagine a world that lives in Peace! This MySpace page was created to promote the work of the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP).
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE NSP SITE!
Click here for ways to get involved with the NSP in your town!
The following is a sample taken straight from the NSP site:
Many of us are involved in or greatly admire the accomplishments of social change movements like the peace movement, the women's movement, the environmental movement, the movement for economic justice, the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement, the labor movement, struggles for civil liberties, and the disability rights movement, to name just a few.And yet, we believe that these movements have tended to underplay or even deny a very important dimension of human life—the spiritual dimension. And this deficit has limited the potential impact that all these movements could have. It will take a very different kind of movement—one founded on and giving central focus to a spiritual vision--to create a real alternative to the political Right, to the fundamentalists (religious and political), and to our society’s ethos of selfishness, materialism, and cynicism.We seek to create that alternative. We are a community of people from many faiths and traditions, called together by the Spiritual Covenant with America and its vision of healing and transforming our world. We include in this call both the outer transformation needed to achieve social justice, ecological sanity, and world peace, and the inner healing needed to foster loving relationships, a generous attitude toward the world and toward others unimpeded by the distortions of our egos. Our movement will encourage a habit of generosity and trust, and the ability to respond to the grandeur of creation with awe, wonder and radical amazement.
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Four basic tenets drive everything the Network of Spiritual Progressives does:
*Foster a New Bottom Line of love, generosity & ecological sensitivity in our economy, education, media, & government.
*Foster a new global consciousness and solidarity.
*Promote awe, radical amazement, gratitude & developing an inner spiritual life.
*Challenge the misuse of God & religion by the Religious Right and religio-phobia on the Left.

I'd like to meet:

Progressives of all shapes and forms: Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Baptists, Evangelicals, Atheists, Agnostics, spiritual but non-Religious people... basically anyone that wants to support the work of the Network of Spiritual Progressives to work towards unity, peace, and a better world! United WE Stand!

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Books:

Favorite quotes on progressive issues straight from “The Left Hand of God” book by Michael Lerner:
• Evolution vs. Creationists: "...there is no reason why various religious explanations for the creation of the universe should not be taught to students, as long as they are not taught as science but as cultural history in a humanities or social science course-as long as, ... the Genesis story is taught along-side the Navajo creation myth about the Grand Canyon and the Babylonian and other accounts.
• Politics: "...we need to stop fantasizing that we are going to find a magical candidate who embodies all that we believe in … instead [WE need to] create a movement that MAKES it necessary for any candidate to respond to our message."
• Same Sex Marriages: "There should be no criteria with regard to gender of partners or their sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or political orientation ..."
• Abortion: "Make it safe, legal, and rare … And make childbearing safe, economically supported, and surrounded by a loving community that celebrates the mystery and miracle of life and that honors and rewards the parent or parents who have undertaken the difficult and beautiful task of raising children."
• Environment: "affirming human specialness [is] not a license for destruction but rather an empowerment, a confirmation of our special responsibility toward the well-being of the planet ... we receive the earth from the care of our ancestors ... we have a responsibility to leave it to future generations in good shape. We also have a responsibility to our fellow humans who happen to live down the river … A spiritual approach to the environment is about protecting the poor and powerless from suffering ecological devastation."
• Health Care: "...well-being can only be achieved by a health system that pays attention to all the dimensions of human life ... we should understand that the health of our body is linked to health of our economic, political, and ecological system outside of our body."
• Foreign Policy: "The well-being and safety of our ourselves, our families, our communities, and our world depends on the well-being of every other human being on the planet. This is not just sweet sentiment-it is cold political reality."
Be sure to also check out the great book below by the Rockridge Institute

My Blog

HUMOR

Join the Network of Spiritual Progressives www.spiritualprogressives.org Dear Friend, Do You Suffer from Irregular-Hilarity?Painful Humorrhoids? If you subscribe to Tikkun, help is on the way! I...
Posted by Network of Spiritual Progressives on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:36:00 PST

Obama & AIPAC

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Posted by Network of Spiritual Progressives on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:10:00 PST

Torah Commentary

Message from Tikkun Magazine: [You don't have to be Jewish to learn from the Torah, just as you don't have to be Buddhist to learn from Buddhist texts, Christian to learn from Christian texts, or Musl...
Posted by Network of Spiritual Progressives on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:21:00 PST

A Jewish Mystic Speaks

Join the Network of Spiritual Progressives!  Go to: www.spiritualprogressives.org [Introductory note from Rabbi Michael Lerner: The Jewish holiday of Shavuot will be celebrated this year start ...
Posted by Network of Spiritual Progressives on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:12:00 PST

Racism in Israel

Message from Tikkun Magazine: Racism against Israeli Arabs by the Jewish citizens of Israel is on the Increase-and non-violent protests of the Occupation by Palestinians are met with violence from Isr...
Posted by Network of Spiritual Progressives on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:11:00 PST

Help build our Clergy Advisory Board

Join the Network of Spiritual Progressives We'd like to ask your help in helping us locate and invite into our Clergy Advisory Board (a network of spiritually progressive clergy) members of the ...
Posted by Network of Spiritual Progressives on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:55:00 PST

Stop Nancy Pelosi’s war funding!

Tikkun to heal, repair and transform the world A note from Rabbi Michael Lerner Join or Donate Now! www.spiritualprogressives.orgThe House of Representatives will vote as soon as tomorrow (Thursday, M...
Posted by Network of Spiritual Progressives on Thu, 08 May 2008 09:37:00 PST

Israel At 60: A Perspective

Tikkun to heal, repair and transform the world A note from Rabbi Michael Lerner Join or Donate Now! Israel at 60 Rabbi Michael LernerEditor, TikkunPlease join with me in prayer and/or in acts of kindn...
Posted by Network of Spiritual Progressives on Tue, 06 May 2008 09:13:00 PST

2 Paying Jobs at Tikkun

Message From Tikkun Magazine: You can read about both of these jobs by going to www. tikkun. org and clicking on the "Jobs" category in the left hand column, or you can read the material below. We are...
Posted by Network of Spiritual Progressives on Tue, 06 May 2008 09:11:00 PST

An African American Perspective on Rev. Wright

{Editorial Preface:  One of the most widely esteemed pastors in the African American world, and a dearly loved member of the Network of Spiritual Progressives' National Advisory Board,  Rev....
Posted by Network of Spiritual Progressives on Fri, 02 May 2008 05:44:00 PST