The same Donkey that brought Jesus to Jerusalem died on Saturday. Here is a fable story of the Donkey and its immense part on Jesus life. (This is part of another project in the works called Book of Hours.) FRIDAY — 8 PM — 4 hours after Jesus’ death There was a palpable silence everywhere around the Empire. That dead silence also invaded the village near Bethphage on the Mount of Olives where the donkey who…
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…
Read it here: Ecumenica Interview When Wajcha Meets David Mason: A Conversation with Cláudio Carvalhaes DAVID MASON EDITOR, ECUMENICA CLÁUDIO CARVALHAES UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY [ABSTRACT] Ecumenica editor David Mason talks with Cláudio Carvalhaes, Professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary, about Carvalhaes’s play When Wajcha Meets Pachamama, in which, with others, he has performed in New York City, and around the world. The play involves a clown named Wajcha who searches for the means of healing a wound that he has discovered in the earth and in himself. In the conversation, Carvalhaes articulates his ideas about the relationship between theatrical…