Pathos as Passion

The following is quoted from Kenda Creasy Dean's book, Practicing Passion:
Ancient Hebrew society viewed pathos as a personal quality of divine love, embodied by the community of faith and not only by individuals. The Jews described Yahweh in very personal terms, using images such as friend and lover; the Hebrew word for love (ahav) means to be filled with desire and delight and passion for the one we love, to long for the presence of the beloved. OT scholar Walter Brueggemann claim that this caused Jews to prize Torah, the story of God's longing, over the more restrained wisdom literature, allowing biblical tradition to defy Western philosophical trends by consistently favoring "the impossibilities of passion" over the more disciplined perspective of reason. Education in ancient Israel, notes Brueggemann, was "education in passion"-- nurture into a distinct, passionate community that knew itself to be at odds with the distinct, passionate community that knew itself to be at odds with the dominant culture.... Education in passion led to particular practices in the public life of the people of Israel that directed community life toward the God of pathos.
I admire Tom for his passion that he is beginning to have about creating an alternative community. In his mind, he see's this alternative community as a people who value the Earth. What are some other values that this alternative community should have? Do we have a story that these values flow out of? Is it possible to live out the Jesus narrative? Can we "rescript" ourselves/our values?