The Commons draws together leading and rising voices of our time to advocate for justice and to examine global spiritual and interreligious currents in both historical and contemporary perspectives. From politics to poetry, protests to pedagogy, pulpits to pews, The Commons is an online-only, monthly magazine where artists, activists, and academics explore the place of religion in public life.
An itinerant photographer finds the streets of New York transformed.
Photographer S. Billie Mandle confronts her Catholic past and the place of confessionals.
All of us are crafters now. Even if we are not sewing or baking or gardening, we are re-learning touch, buildings nests of soft blankets, clutching our warm coffee mugs, feeling our phones vibrate as we text friends and loved…
A writer and Lion’s Roar editor on holding a teabowl with your whole self.
A project that uses documentary photographs by André Daughtry, official photographer for the Poor People’s Campaign, during the “40 Days of Moral Action” that took place in 38 state capitals in the summer of 2018.