Olivia Wise ( oliviawisestudio.com ) When Strangers Read My Body by Olivia Wise. Olivia Wise (oliviawisestudio.com). / When Strangers Read My Body by Olivia Wise. More

Carol Es ( esart.com ) “What is it about my body that invites these questions about selling Bibles and these spontaneous blessings?” Gomez asks. Pop on Top by Carol Es. Carol Es (esart.com). / “What is it about my body that invites these questions about selling Bibles and these spontaneous More

This channel between distant bodies might take the form of a universal One Mind that subsumes and unites all individual minds. Creative Commons This channel between distant bodies might take the form of a universal One Mind that subsumes and unites all individual minds. / Creative Commons More

Cheryl Kaplan “Is this what disability spiritualities might look like?” the author writes. “Here is a sanctuary, created by nothing but bodies, attention, and soft fabrics.” Cheryl Kaplan. / “Is this what disability spiritualities might look like?” the author writes. “Here is a sanctuary More

Creative Commons/George Groutas “The symbol of Goddess is an affirmation of women’s power, bodies, will, and relationships with each other,” Carol P. Christ writes. This Minoan Snake Goddess figurine from Crete dates back to approximately 1600 bce . Creative Commons/George Groutas More

AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis A Palestinian man cries after identifying the body of a loved one killed in Israel’s July 2014 attack on Gaza. “Settler Judaism” uses memories of past Jewish suffering to distract from Israel’s abuses against Palestinians. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis. / A Palestinian More

David Schwab (to purchase: tinyurl.com/davidschwab or 212-927-0652) The Babylonian Talmud calls for the levayah of the dead—the accompaniment of a body across the threshold to burial. Our obligation to accompany the living can similarly draw us across unexpected boundaries. Prayer More

Laura Beckman ( laurabeckman.com ) “Does love mean protecting your privacy while displaying your daughter’s body and story?” the author writes. “I know you intend ‘pillow angel’ as an expression of love, but I feel those words in my bones as separation, exclusion, a denial of humanity.” Pillow More

render a body impure, according to the Torah. The misinterpretation of the Gospel of Mark stems from the conflation of two entirely different systems of rules: kosher dietary laws, which forbid Jews from eating foods such as these creamy bacon cupcakes, and purity laws. Carrion (like the putrefying More