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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A Special Issue on borders crossings, edited by Charles Henderson

H.G. O’Connell shares how her personal quest to meld Catholic mysticism with new age magic inspired her to create The Saints Tarot Deck.

In "For the scariest thing isn’t half as enslaved," Xiao Ma reflects on migration, grief, Indigenous land, and the sacred encounters that reshaped their sense of belonging and care. Content note: suic...

Photographer S. Billie Mandle confronts her Catholic past and the place of confessionals.

A Special Issue on religion and healing, edited by Stephanie Y. Mitchem

Sara Island Bear reflects on love, faith, and the urgency of acting for those we cherish amid Gaza’s devastation in this KtB–Commons collaboration.

Rev. Dr. Ana Piela discusses the gendered politics surrounding women's mosques

Sowmya Ayyar explores the significance of Indic astrology through the story of her own visit to a Rahu-Ketu temple in India.

Our latest KtB/Commons collaboration features a bicultural meditation on Iranian identity, exile, empire, and memory. Zia Shahidi’s essay examines how family history, diaspora politics, and Western in...

Irina Sheynfeld interviews artist Jeffrey Gibson about his new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Volume 75, Issue 2 (June 2025), edited by S.B. Rodriguez-Plate, featuring articles on memory work, sacred space, multiracial artistic expression, and ethics in times of violence, alongside reviews eng...

Pragya Bhatt invites the reader into her pilgrimage to the Shri Jagannath temple in India and the implications she drew for herself as a modern Hindu.

Rev. Dr. Ana Piela discusses the stoking of moral panic in Portugal and Europe over Muslim women's decision to veil and associated face-covering bans.

Ralycia Andrews reflects on what it means to study sacred art in the Black Atlantic--objects that were never meant to be owned

Muslims are at the center of a shift in public ideas of race in the United States.

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

A poem from Micah Bucey on Maundy Thursday. Tables as places of possiblity

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 ...

A Special Issue on religion and the United Nations, edited by Azza Karam and Matthew Weiner

Sowmya Ayyar explores the significance of the Chhati ceremony through her own experience and that of her loved ones

Sowmya Ayyar explores the significance of the Chhati ceremony through her own experience and that of her loved onesIrina Sheynfeld interviews artist Douriean Fletcher about Black Panther, making jewel...