Check this 2002 interview with Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936-2022), by Rosalind Hinton. Ruether published some of her early feminist theology in the pages of CrossCurrents: www.aprilonline.org/a-legacy-of-... #Inclusion #Feminist #Theology #Legacy

A Legacy of Inclusion: Interview with Rosemary Radford Ruether

A 2002 interview with Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936-2022). Ruether published some of her early feminist theology in the pages of CrossCurrents.

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Rebecca Collins Jordan reflects on religious literacy, democracy, and Catholic education in a collection of essays on teaching religious studies for K-12 teachers. www.aprilonline.org/rebecca-coll... #literacy #democracy #catholic #education #teacher

Rebecca Collins Jordan on Religious Literacy Democracy and Catholic Education

"I am called as a religion teacher to give my students the tools to truly see one another, their neighbors, and the world at large, in the religious worlds they each inhabit."

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Check the CrossCurrents Journal reading list for LGBTQIA+ History Month. Access the archive: www.aprilonline.org/crosscurrent... #LGBTQIA #archive #Reading #Religion #LgbtqHistoryMonth

Join APRIL at #AAR2026 in Denver for two sessions exploring religion and museums! Nov. 20 | 1–5 PM Collecting, Curating, Exhibiting: How Museums Make the Sacred Pre-conference workshop | A20-202 Nov. 21 | 9–11 AM Representing Religion in Museums A21-101 Hope to see you there! #Religion #museum

Check the issue of CrossCurrents journal, Vol. 66, No. 2: Forms of Speech, Religion and Social Resistance! www.aprilonline.org/project/vol-... #Speech #Religion #SocialResistance

In this interview, Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes explores the power of embodiment within his new book "Spiritual Practices for Ecological Survival." www.aprilonline.org/interview-wi... #spirituality #rituals #ecology #survival

Moved by her mother's death, Laura Tanenbaum writes on grief. This is our latest collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site KtB. www.aprilonline.org/the-grief-sy... @ltanenbaum.bsky.social @ktbuddhamag.bsky.social #Grief #Religion #Reflection

The Grief Syllabus

Moved by her mother's death, Laura Tanenbaum writes on grief. This is our latest collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site KtB.

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Pragya Bhatt invites us to reconsider human "connection" between Pakistan and India, transcending borders and divisive political narratives. www.aprilonline.org/high-fiving-... #India #Pakistan #Connection

High Fiving A Holy Man

Pragya Bhatt invites us to reconsider human "connection" between Pakistan and India, transcending borders and divisive political narratives.

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As we wrap up Latinx Heritage Month, here's a final list of recommended readings from Crosscurrents! www.aprilonline.org/crosscurrent... #Journal #Readings #LatinxHeritageMonth #Religion

Check Vol. 67, No. 1: Black Religions in Brazil / Religiões Negras no Brasil, a Bi-Lingual Issue published in March 2017. aprilonline.org/project/vol-... #brazil #teologia #theology #religion

Vol. 67, No. 1: Black Religions in Brazil / Religiões Negras no Brasil - April Online

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Meet Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes and his play "When Wajcha Meets Pachamama" at the New York Theater Festival. A review on healing and humor, by SB Rodriguez Plate. www.aprilonline.org/clowning-aro... #newyork #theater #healing #humor #pachamama

Cláudio Carvalhaes and his play When Wajcha Meets Pachamama

Cláudio Carvalhaes and his play When Wajcha Meets Pachamama at the New York Theater Festival. Healing and humor.

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Take a look at this CrossCurrents reading list that highlights the contributions of the Latinx/e community throughout the Americas. Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! www.aprilonline.org/crosscurrent... #Latinx #Latinidad #Latine

Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! Check out this CrossCurrents reading list highlighting the contributions of the Latinx community across the Americas. www.aprilonline.org/crosscurrent...

Check the special issue of CrossCurrents, bringing together essays and photo essays on the material and emotional dimensions of Jewish life: www.aprilonline.org/project/vol-... #Jewish #Religion #Spirituality

Vol. 71, No. 1: Jewish Objects, Jewish Affects - April Online

Special issue of CrossCurrents, bringing together essays and photo essays on the material and emotional dimensions of Jewish life.

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Through a letter to her father, God, and her lover, Michelle Woods explores identity and sacred trans existence. This is our latest collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site @ktbuddhamag.bsky.social. www.aprilonline.org/dear-letters... #Trans #Spirituality #Sacred

DEAR: Letters to My Father, to God, to My Lover

Michelle Woods explores identity and sacred trans existence. This is our latest collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site KtB.

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🎷 Happy 100th Birthday, John Coltrane! Revisit S.B. Rodríguez-Plate’s 2018 reflection published in Religion Dispatches on A Love Supreme and the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Link below: www.aprilonline.org/happy-100th-... #JohnColtrane #ALoveSupreme #thecommons #jazz #coltrane

John Coltrane and Religious Life

Jazz musician John Coltrane would have been 100 this week. He became one of the great spiritual musicians of the modern age.

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As transphobia is displacing families abroad and health care is banned, Jennifer Harris Dault shares their family experience and trauma as trans exiles: "It is time for these congregations to be loud with their care and support." www.aprilonline.org/trans-atlant... #Trans #HealthCare #HumanRights

Trans-Atlantic Trans-Exiles

As transphobia is displacing families abroad and health care is banned, Jennifer shares their family experience and trauma as trans exiles.

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In Vol. 71, no. 3 of the CrossCurrents journal, the authors reflect on parenting and spirituality from theological, feminist and diasporic perspectives. Access to the table of contents and contributors: www.aprilonline.org/project/vol-... #parenting #spirituality #religion

The Spirituality of Parenting, CrossCurrents 71.3

This issue brings together essays at the intersection of religious life and parenting. Essays are reflective, creative, and bring in the writers’ own experiences of being a parent and how one brings r...

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Betty Lyons, Sandra Bigtree, and Philip Arnold respond to the Vatican's Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery—a Haudenosaunee perspective. www.aprilonline.org/continuing-c... #doctrine #indigenous #AbyaYala #vatican #Reconciliation

A response to the Vatican after the Doctrine of Discovery

Responses to the Vatican's Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery. A Haudenosaunee perspective.

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Artist, writer, and Episcopal priest, Mark Harris, shares his prints dealing with themes of resistance and hope. He reminds us that resistance is a “spiritual force." www.aprilonline.org/mapping-resi... #resistance #hope #sacred #art

Mapping Resistance and Hope

Artist, writer, and Episcopal priest, Mark Harris, shares his prints dealing with themes of resistance and hope.

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Vol. 71, no. 2 of the CrossCurrents journal features articles on race, immigration, and gender, as well as poetry and reviews. Access to the table of contents and contributors: www.aprilonline.org/project/vol-... #race #immigration #gender #poetry

Vol. 71, No. 2 - April Online

Vol. 71, no. 2 of the CrossCurrents journal features articles on race, immigration, and gender, as well as poetry and reviews.

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Who gets to remember and how? What are the consequences of hegemony in a nation's political memory? "While #anti-Muslim hate crimes began within a mere few hours after the attacks, early #politicalrhetoric was mostly measured," Rev. Dr. Anna Piela reflects. www.aprilonline.org/a-generation...

A generation that doesn’t remember 9/11 is inheriting its anti-Muslim legacy

Who gets to remember and how? What are the consequences of hegemony in a nation's political memory? Rev. Dr. Anna Piela reflects on 9/11.

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In this contribution, Fahad Siadat reflects on cultural identities, the role of poetry, and the work of 16th-century Bhakti saint Mirabai. www.aprilonline.org/the-space-be... #Culture #Poetry #Identities #Essay

Fahad Siadat on poetry, and the quest for interconnectedness

Composer and arts entrepreneur, Fahad Siadat, reflects on the place of poetry in spiritual life, and the quest for Truth among various identities.

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In our latest collaboration between KtB and Commons, Zeina Assaf depicts parenting between panic and pragmatism during war in Beirut. This is our latest collaboration between The Commons and our sibling site KtB. Link in below: www.aprilonline.org/we-dont-like... #KtBCommons #Religion #Politics

We Don't Like the Fireworks

In our latest collaboration between KtB and Commons, Zeina Assaf depicts parenting between panic and pragmatism during war in Beirut.

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Massiel Torres Ulloa reflects on her contribution to Freedoms Reframed: Art on the Edges of the Constitution, showing in historic Trenton, New Jersey, through October 3, 2026. Link below www.aprilonline.org/reflections-... #papalegba #haïti #hispaniola #independance #thecommons

Reflections of two paintings: Insurmountable, small, Legba, and a place of becoming

Massiel Torres Ulloa reflects on her contribution to Freedoms Reframed: Art on the Edges of the Constitution, exploring Papa Legba, migration, anti-Blackness, and freedom in an exhibition celebrating ...

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The third essay in our Art of Encounter series is here! Peter L. Doebler explores David Moss’s art, visual exegesis, and the challenge of creating deeper, more contemplative encounters in the museum. Link below www.aprilonline.org/text-context... #Art #Museums #thecommons #ArtHistory #Religion

Text, Context, Texture: The Art of David Moss, Visual Exegesis, and the Limits of Museum Exhibitions

In "Text, Context, Texture: The Art of David Moss..." Peter L. Doebler reflects on how art objects may support spiritual engagement.

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VOL. 66, NO. 1: RELIGION AND CLIMATE CHANGE March 2016 Edited by Charles Henderson Link below: www.aprilonline.org/project/vol-...

Vol. 66, No. 1: Religion and Climate Change

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Check out the latest reflection in our The Art of Encounter series at The Commons, featuring Donato Loia’s reflections on what brings museums to life, from art and music to the senses, prayer, contemplation, and even ice cream. #gallery #thecommons #religion www.aprilonline.org/museums-need/

Museums Need

In the second essay on "The Art of Encounter" symposium series, Donato Loia reflects on museums as sacred places where art and life connect.

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In “We Are Not and Never Have Been a ‘Christian Nation,’” Brook Wilensky-Lanford draws from her book A God-Shaped Nation shares a reading list that traces American pluralism. Link below: www.aprilonline.org/we-are-not-a... #TheCommons #pluralism #christiannationalism #politic #americanreligions

We are Not and Never Have Been a “Christian Nation”

The religion writer Brook Wilensky-Lanford recommends six books that explore religious pluralism and challenge Christian nationalists' myths.

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Check out our latest series from “The Art of Encounter Symposium,” held at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame featuring reflections from participants. Link in below www.aprilonline.org/the-art-of-e... #thecommons #artofencounter #religion #museum

The Art of Encounter

A first essay on the new series "The Art of Encounter": a symposium where museums and galleries inspired spiritual and religious dialogues.

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