Tamanduateí River – New Fluidities for New foundations International Society For The Study Of Religion, Nature, And Culture Venice – October 21, 2026 Cláudio Carvalhaes   I am delighted to be here with you all, thank you for this gift you offered me. Would you please allow me to be shameless and tell you about my new book “Spiritual Practices for Ecological Survival. Rituals of Resistance” that just came out October 1 by Bloomsbury. I will pass it around. As I speak, you will see a video of the River Tamanduateí, the subject of my paper. It is a 6…

Union Establishes the Marilyn Seven Chair on Religion and the Arts  Union News Union Theological Seminary establishes the Marilyn Seven Chair on Religion and the Arts—a visionary new faculty chair that embodies Union’s longstanding commitment to progressive theology and compassionate wisdom, where faith and scholarship meet to reimagine the work of justice. The Marilyn Seven Chair will foster deep and creative connections between religion and the arts through the imagination and learning of performing arts, innovative pedagogies, and rituals rooted in interreligious engagement, ecological justice, and transformative education. At its heart, the chair seeks to cultivate artistic spaces of encounter—places where…

“A feast to the body: São Paulo Bienal 2025/2026” Cláudio Carvalhaes   To the memory of Colombian artist Beatriz González     Tanka Fonta Philosophies of Being, Perception, and Expressivity of Being (2025) Born in Buea, Cameroon, now lives and works in Berlin, Germany.   I was able to visit the last days of the 2025/2026 art biennial in São Paulo.[1] The Bienal is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with a long and rich history of art around the world. Along with Venice and Kassel’s Documenta, São Paulo constitutes one of the three of the most expressive global art…

Matthew 6: 25-34 – Dwelling on the earth with God 25 ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? 28And…