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APRIL advocates for social justice and inter-religious work. Checkout our online magazine “The Commons” and quarterly journal CrossCurrents.
Coco Fusco Turns Back the Ethnographic Gaze hyperallergic.com/1055584/coco...
11.11.2025 14:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
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
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
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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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
VOL. 70, NO. 2: PRIVACY
June 2020
Edited by Yelena Mazour-Matusevich
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#surveillance #privacy #digitallife #visibility #solitude #interiority
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
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074?...
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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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
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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VOL. 67, NO. 2: Intersections of Liberation and Reconciliation
June 2017
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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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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
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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Vol. 65, no. 2: Creative Nonfiction—A Genre Made for Religious Writing
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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
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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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
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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Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC’s Freeman Alley.
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Courtney Thomas on the role of religion in the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor is the Villain.”
Now on Broadway through Sept. 7 at the Booth Theater 222 W 45th St NYC
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Professor Rachel Wagner on the attempted mass shooting at CrossPointe Community Church, Michigan, and all the ways we label things “good” and “evil.”
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#assault #guns #massshooting #mentalillness #guncontrol #crosspointechurch #good #bad
VOL. 68, NO. 3: Interreligious Aesthetics
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Dancer, author, and playwright, Kimerer LaMothe, discusses
“Nietzsche, A New Musical,” running Oct. 10th–12th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York Mezzanine Theater.
Tickets at: OFFBRANDOPERA.ORG/Nietzsche
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#nietzsche #musical #musicaltheater #dance #theater
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12.08.2025 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf shares a piece prompted by the first episode of South Park’s 27th season and its depiction of Jesus and the state of American Christian nationalism.
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#christiannationalism #southpark #southparkjesus #jesus #parody #parody
Check out Tiffany Thompson’s latest piece on showing up and tells the story of her latest single, “The Reason” as a harbinger of hope to come, the prelude to the story.
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New CrossCurrents Special Issue Vol.74.No.4 out now: 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism via @indigenousvalues.org @april-cc-commons.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074
28.06.2025 03:55 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Check out this review by Dantaé Garee Elliott of The Blackout Poetry Event with Afro-Dominican poet and performance artist Yaissa Jimenez in collaboration with Caribbean art journal Forgotten Lands and the Museum of Modern Art’s Creativity Lab, at MoMA.
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