Check out this journal issue from our archives:
VOL. 60, NO. 3 – RELIGION AND THE UNITED NATIONS
September 2010
Edited by Azza Karam and Matthew Weiner
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#theun #un #religion #development #culture
Rania Mustafa unpacks the history and politics of Hay`at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the post al-Assad Syrian regime, in this latest installment in the new monthly collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site, KtB.
#ktbcommons #liberation #Islam #damascus
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On Maundy Thursday, Micah Bucey offers “A Blessing for This Table,” a poem that reflects on tables as places of possibility, welcome, and shared becoming.
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#thecommons #table #empire #religion #cross
From the archive:
VOL. 59, NO. 4 - The Other
December 2009
Edited by Charles Henderson
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#alterity #theother #other #profane #holy
Alexandra Helene St Tellien reflects what it means to be an ethnographer of Haitian Vodou and other African heritage traditions as both a scholar and practitioner.
#haïti #ethnography #africantraditionalreligion #praxis
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Jon is in NYC this Monday! Music, poetry, prose and more!
#trans #spirituality
We have no idea…
Wait, where is this happening?
I’d never get back to sleep after that, and maybe an indication that if been watching too much news. 🥰
Thanks, Jaime!
Looking for some Transgender Day of Remembrance reading?
@sbrodriguez.bsky.social, editor of CrossCurrents, talks about their new special issue TRANS-SPIRITUALITIES and how you can read some of the articles for free now through December 19th 🏳️⚧️
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WHAT IF? Maddow, Colbert, & Kimmel joined NPR …
These are the stories of affirmation and activism and joy that we need to lean in toward yes, it’s tragic, but just listen to how powerful the voices sound in the podcast. People taking active goals in the lives of their family.
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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
At the #VeniceFilmFestival. Jim Jarmusch’s new film “Father Mother Sister Brother” with Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchet, and more. Wonderful film
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
VOL. 68, NO. 3: Interreligious Aesthetics
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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
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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Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC’s Freeman Alley.
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Have we considered paying educators more? Is this a thing that has been tried yet? If not, maybe we should give it a whirl.
EDITOR’S NOTE: In light of the recent tragic murder of Imam Muhsin Hendricks, we are reposting this interview with him from 2011, conducted by APRIL President Björn Krondorfer.
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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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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
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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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
Yes, good point! I saw several outlets today in it and couldn’t figure out if it was something new, but it seems the same story, they’re just behind RNS!
