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April & The Commons
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APRIL advocates for social justice and inter-religious work. Checkout our online magazine “The Commons” and quarterly journal CrossCurrents.
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Michael Woolf’s contribution asks:
Religious institutions have incredible power in this country, but the question is how will they use it? Will they cozy up to those in power? Or will they strive to hold the state accountable?

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Christian Actions and Icons in an Age of ICE
Michael Woolf argues that right now we need people of faith willing to take risks and be bold for the sake of others. If we wait, it will be too late. Religious institutions have incredible power in t...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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CrossCurrents
Vol. 75, no. 1
Special Issue: Trans-Spiritualities

The issue invites readers to consider how spirituality and transformation are lived, embodied, and narrated within trans experience.

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#translivesmatter #tdor #trans #spirituality
Vol. 75, No. 1
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November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Poet, composer, performance artist, Sowmya Ayyar unpacks the power and meaning behind the Hindu festival of Aadi Pooram.

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#aadi #aadipooram #andal #divine #divinefeminineenergy #goddess #hindu #india #offerings #ritual ##spirituality
All About Aadi Pooram
Sowmya Ayyar shares a piece on the power of adornment and the divine feminine and its manifestation in the Hindu goddess, Akhilandeshwari.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Commons Editor S.B. Rodríguez-Plate examines the intersections of trans identity, authenticity, authoring, and acting. Published in conjunction with Transgender Awareness Week 2025.

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#transawareness #trans #spirituality #transidentity #authoring #acting
Against Authenticity: A Trans+ Take on Authoring and Acting
Commons Editor S.B. Rodríguez-Plate on trans identity, authenticity, authoring, and acting.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Coco Fusco Turns Back the Ethnographic Gaze hyperallergic.com/1055584/coco...
Coco Fusco Turns Back the Ethnographic Gaze
In her first US retrospective, she becomes museum specimen, interrogator, colonial queen, and more to expose the systems that produce them.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Irina Sheynfeld interviews artist multidisciplinary artist Coco Fusco and reviews Fusco’s new exhibit “Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island,” on view at El Museo del Barrio from September 18, 2025—January 11, 2026.

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#multidisciplinary #art
"Coco Fusco: Poetry of Discomfort" by Irina Sheynfeld
Irina Sheynfeld interviews artist Coco Fusco and reviews Fusco's new exhibit "Tomorrow I will become an Island," now showing at El Museo del Barrio.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Vol. 65, no. 4: Special Issue, Technologies of Religions
Dec. 2015
Edited by Stephanie Y. Mitchem

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#technologies #religious #eco #ecological #cyber #digital #ghosts #megachurch #genealogy #apocalypse #salvation
Vol. 65, No. 4
Vol. 65, No. 4: Technologies of Religions edited by Stephanie Y. Mitchem.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Irina Sheynfeld interviews artist Vladimir Kanevsky about his "Porcelain Garden" exhibit now featured at The Frisk Collection in New York City.

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#frist #visual #visualarts #mixedmedia #design #flowerdesign #mixedmedia #nyc #porceline #vladmirkanevsky
"I Take Architecture and I Take Sculpture, and I Make My Flowers”: A Conversation with Vladimir Kanevsky about "Porcelain Garden"
Irina Sheynfeld interviews artist Vladimir Kanevsky about his "Porcelain Garden" exhibit now featured at The Frisk Collection in New York City.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Poet, memoirist, translator, and author Rajiv Mohabir contributes “Burning Our Nation,” the inaugural essay in the new monthly collaboration between The Commons and KtB (Killing the Buddha).

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Burning Our Nation: Caste in My Guyanese Family
Poet, memoirist, and translator Rajiv Mohabir contributes “Burning Our Nation” as the inaugural essay in the new monthly collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site KtB.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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As part of KtB’s 25th anniversary, The Commons and Killing the Buddha have launched a monthly collaboration—publishing one joint post each month!

#ktb/commons #collaboration #publiclife #religion #poetics #creativity #thearts #socialjustice #intersection
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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VOL. 70, NO. 2: PRIVACY
June 2020
Edited by Yelena Mazour-Matusevich

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#surveillance #privacy #digitallife #visibility #solitude #interiority
Vol. 70, No. 2: Privacy - April Online
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October 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

Check out this public access CrossCurrents Special Issue: 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism

#DoctrineOfDiscovery #IndigenousPeoplesDay #indigenouspeople #sovereignty #LandBack

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Project MUSE - CrossCurrents-Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024
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October 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Artist, dancer, author, and award winning sculptor Anthony D. Padgett explores the spiritual impact of AI and smartphones from a Hindu perspective.

 #AI #community #dance #darshan #film #Hindu #perspective #religion #ritual #Shiva #Smartphones
#spirituality

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Smartphone Darshan
Author Anthony D. Padgett explores the spiritual impact of AI and smartphones from a Hindu perspective
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October 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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A photo and sound essay by Vicki Brennan, Amy DeRogatis, Alison Furlong, Lauren Pond, Ely Lyonblum, and Isaac Weiner

Accompanied by an audio collage.

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#religious #sounds #audiocollage #nyc #photographer #procession #interreligious #citysounds
The American Religious Sounds Project
What does religion sound like? How might we understand religion in the United States differently if we begin by listening for it? Check out the possibilities here.
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October 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Music historian Chase Castle places Charlie Kirk’s memorial within American revival history.

#revivalism #americanchristianity #crusades #evangelicalsandpolitics #politics #politicsandreligion #worship #publicworship #arizona #evangelical #revival

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For Want of Revival: Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Sparks Another Awakening
Music historian Chase Castle places Charlie Kirk’s memorial within American revival history.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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VOL. 67, NO. 2: Intersections of Liberation and Reconciliation
June 2017

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Vol. 67, No. 2: Intersections of Liberation and Reconciliation - April Online
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September 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Join us in celebrating religion, culture & politics + the launch of The Commons/KtB collaboration!

Proof of Life: Celebrating 25 years of Killing the Buddha Magazine (KtB)!!!!

Saturday, 10/18 · 5 - 7:30pm EDT
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South

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September 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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2022 APRIL/Auburn colloquium fellow, Mark Harris contributes a piece on printmaking and bookbinding as spiritual practices and artistic endeavors. @mark_printmaker

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#hope #art #spirituality #practice #craft #zine #zinemaking #printmakingprocess
Art and Printmaking as Carriers of Information
Mark Harris on printmaking and bookbinding as spiritual practices and artistic endeavors.
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September 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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K-12 Educator Corey Wozniak contribution is part of a collection of essays on teaching religious studies for K-12 teachers.

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September 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Vol. 65, no. 2: Creative Nonfiction—A Genre Made for Religious Writing

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CrossCurrents: Creative Nonfiction—A Genre Made for Religion Writing
CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organiza...
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September 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Irina Sheynfeld on the art and spirituality of Nicholas Roerich. For the last 70 years the Nicholas Roerich Museum offers regular concerts and recitals—free to the public.

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#art #paintings #himalaya #nicolasroerich #nicolasroerichmuseum #nyc
The Senses of Freeman Alley
Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC's Freeman Alley.
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September 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Brooklyn-based artist, André Daughtry contributes a photo essay on his latest project, WILDERNESS a speculative documentary that engages an “integral ecological” research approach to the questions of sustainability and spirituality.

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Andre Daughtry's latest film and photography project
My project takes into consideration indigenous spirituality, cosmology, and practices as a way to discover new ways of being in relationship with the world that puts into question purely technological...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Diana Eck contributes a piece on the clash between those who continue to see the U.S. as a “Christian country” and those who see the U.S. as a multireligious nation whose very foundation of religious freedom has made this a home for immigrants of every faith.

#pluralismproject
September 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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On our 75th year we look back at this special 70th anniversary issue, edited by Charles Henderson, features “CrossCurrents at 48,” a moving reflection from founding editor Joseph Cunneen as he stepped down after nearly 50 yrs of editorial leadership.

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Vol. 70, No. 4: 70th Anniversary Issue - April Online
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August 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC’s Freeman Alley.

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The Senses of Freeman Alley
Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC's Freeman Alley.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM