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.
Dr. Swasti Bhattacharyya contributes a reflection on end-of-life ritual, “A Missed Goodbye,” the second essay in the new monthly collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site, KtB. @ktbuddha @ktbuddhamag
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#gratitude #grief #ritual #love
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#gratitude #grief #ritual #love
A Missed Goodbye, or Perhaps Not
Dr. Swasti Bhattacharyya contributes a reflection on end-of-life ritual, "A Missed Goodbye,” the second essay in the new monthly collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site, KtB.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Dr. Swasti Bhattacharyya contributes a reflection on end-of-life ritual, “A Missed Goodbye,” the second essay in the new monthly collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site, KtB. @ktbuddha @ktbuddhamag
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#gratitude #grief #ritual #love
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#gratitude #grief #ritual #love
Application is open for
2026 colloquium: “Representing Religion in Museums”
Applications are due by 11:59 pm EST (New York time) on February 20, 2026.
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#museums #religioninmuseums
2026 colloquium: “Representing Religion in Museums”
Applications are due by 11:59 pm EST (New York time) on February 20, 2026.
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#museums #religioninmuseums
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Application is open for
2026 colloquium: “Representing Religion in Museums”
Applications are due by 11:59 pm EST (New York time) on February 20, 2026.
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#museums #religioninmuseums
2026 colloquium: “Representing Religion in Museums”
Applications are due by 11:59 pm EST (New York time) on February 20, 2026.
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#museums #religioninmuseums
Reposted by April & The Commons
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Islamophobia Is on the Rise, and Christians Have a Responsibility to Confront It
Rev. Dr. Anna Piela documents the recent rise of Islamophobia in the United States and argues that Christians have a special responsibility to confront it.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Rev. Dr. Anna Piela documents the recent rise of Islamophobia in the United States and argues that Christians have a special responsibility to confront it.
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#islamaphobia #racisminamerica #religion #faith #americanchristianity #moralaction
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#islamaphobia #racisminamerica #religion #faith #americanchristianity #moralaction
Islamophobia Is on the Rise, and Christians Have a Responsibility to Confront It
Rev. Dr. Anna Piela documents the recent rise of Islamophobia in the United States and argues that Christians have a special responsibility to confront it.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Rev. Dr. Anna Piela documents the recent rise of Islamophobia in the United States and argues that Christians have a special responsibility to confront it.
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#islamaphobia #racisminamerica #religion #faith #americanchristianity #moralaction
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#islamaphobia #racisminamerica #religion #faith #americanchristianity #moralaction
Check out this CrossCurrents special issue on Theopoetics, edited by Scott Holland.
#theopoetics #poetics #religion #spirituality #expression
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#theopoetics #poetics #religion #spirituality #expression
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Vol. 60, No. 1 - Theopoetics
A Special Issue on theopoetics, edited by Scott Holland
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December 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Check out this CrossCurrents special issue on Theopoetics, edited by Scott Holland.
#theopoetics #poetics #religion #spirituality #expression
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#theopoetics #poetics #religion #spirituality #expression
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Invitation to Reflect through Scholarly Publications on Religion and Cities
The special issue will be edited by Dr. Isaiah Ellis and Dr. Harold Morales.
Send submissions directly to Dr. Isaiah Ellis at [email protected].
Submissions are due December 15, 2025.
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The special issue will be edited by Dr. Isaiah Ellis and Dr. Harold Morales.
Send submissions directly to Dr. Isaiah Ellis at [email protected].
Submissions are due December 15, 2025.
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CFP: Special Issue of CrossCurrents: Religion and Urban Life - April Online
CrossCurrents journal is
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December 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Invitation to Reflect through Scholarly Publications on Religion and Cities
The special issue will be edited by Dr. Isaiah Ellis and Dr. Harold Morales.
Send submissions directly to Dr. Isaiah Ellis at [email protected].
Submissions are due December 15, 2025.
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The special issue will be edited by Dr. Isaiah Ellis and Dr. Harold Morales.
Send submissions directly to Dr. Isaiah Ellis at [email protected].
Submissions are due December 15, 2025.
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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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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
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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www.aprilonline.org/christian-ac...
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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#transawareness #trans #spirituality #transidentity #authoring #acting
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
Coco Fusco Turns Back the Ethnographic Gaze hyperallergic.com/1055584/coco...
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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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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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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
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
#ktb/commons #collaboration #publiclife #religion #poetics #creativity #thearts #socialjustice #intersection
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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
#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
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
VOL. 70, NO. 2: PRIVACY
June 2020
Edited by Yelena Mazour-Matusevich
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#surveillance #privacy #digitallife #visibility #solitude #interiority
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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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
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?...
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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#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
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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#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
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
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
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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#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
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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#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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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
VOL. 67, NO. 2: Intersections of Liberation and Reconciliation
June 2017
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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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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
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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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
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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
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
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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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September 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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