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September/October 2023: News from the Center for World Philosophy and Religion
Featured Essay in September and October 2023 More Essays and White Papers Published on This Site in September and October 2023 Read the Most Recent Essays on Substack Follow Us on Substack Podcasts, Videos, and Audios Published on This Site in September and October 2023 On November 5th, We had Episode VI of the Podcast: Love or Die Next Episode Coming Up December 3rd11 am PDT • 2 pm EDT • 7 pm [...]
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Israel-Hamas: The Impossible Questions – Podcast Aubrey Marcus with Dr. Marc Gafni
Note to Listener from Aubrey Marcus and Dr. Marc Gafni: We are at a time between worlds, at a time between stories. We live in a world of outrageous pain. We live in a world of outrageous beauty. We live in a world of outrageous love. In this time between stories, we step beyond the old stories of good and evil in its primitive forms. But that does not mean that we are moral relativists or that value is not real. Indeed all of reality, all of life is Value. We can feel the truth of this in our bodies. [...]
Is Religion for the Happy-Minded? A Response to Harold Kushner
Download the PDF of this Article Written and published by Marc Gafni in 1986 for Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, Vol. 22, No. 3 (FALL 1986), pp. 54-65. In a very profound way, Harold Kushner’s When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Avon Books, 1981) and the themes it treats evoke in the reader feelings of warmth, compassion, and drawing one closer to all who suffer in this world. The tragic story of Aaron Kushner (the author’s son) and the very real depth with which his parents experienced suffering cannot but make one [...]