April & The Commons

Vol. 75, No. 1

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

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.

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

Against Authenticity: A Trans+ Take on Authoring and Acting Commons Editor S.B. Rodríguez-Plate on trans identity, authenticity, authoring, and acting.

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

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.

Coco Fusco Turns Back the Ethnographic Gaze hyperallergic.com/1055584/coco...

"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.

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 Vol. 65, No. 4: Technologies of Religions edited by Stephanie Y. Mitchem.

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

"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.

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

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.

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 - April Online

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

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Smartphone Darshan Author Anthony D. Padgett explores the spiritual impact of AI and smartphones from a Hindu perspective

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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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.

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

For Want of Revival: Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Sparks Another Awakening Music historian Chase Castle places Charlie Kirk’s memorial within American revival history.

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 - April Online

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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Art and Printmaking as Carriers of Information Mark Harris on printmaking and bookbinding as spiritual practices and artistic endeavors.

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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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...

Vol. 65, no. 2: Creative Nonfiction—A Genre Made for Religious Writing

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The Senses of Freeman Alley Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC's Freeman Alley.

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

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...

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

Vol. 70, No. 4: 70th Anniversary Issue - April Online

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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The Senses of Freeman Alley Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC's Freeman Alley.

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

@revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social

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