Throughout his writings, and in his

Throughout his writings, and in his visionary magazine TIKKUN, Lerner explains how this secular religion, this ideology of the marketplace, is at the core of a dominator-style culture characterized by harsh competition, inequality, violence, and indifference to much of the suffering that results. In Spirit Matters, he describes an education oriented instead to the goal of nurturing individuals who are “loving, capable of showing deep caring for others, alive to the spiritual and ethical dimensions of being, ecologically sensitive, intellectually alive, self-determining, and creative” (Lerner 2000, 234). This fundamental shift of values, from selfish competitiveness to caring sensitivity, lies at the heart of educating for a culture of peace.