performances

Present tense: Worshipping and performing in the digital age

By Tara Isabella Burton — April 30, 2020
(RNS) — How we inhabit, explore and become vulnerable in spaces traditionally understood as ‘disembodied’ or ‘low stakes’ is among the most important artistic questions of our digital age.

A preacher plumbs the art of the sermon by yielding the pulpit to passers-by

By Kayleigh Fongers — October 4, 2018
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) — A Michigan pastor has created 'The Preachers,' a performance art piece in which passers-by are encouraged to step up to a makeshift pulpit and preach for up to five minutes.

Ex-cons, homeless seek enlightenment through art

By Tracy Gordon — March 7, 2012

ST. LOUIS (RNS) A group of former prisoners and homeless veterans are acting out real-life lessons in suffering as they wrestle with Buddhist truths and their own demons. By Tim Townsend.

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