From the Editor
Welcome to the Yale ISM Review! Issue 7.1 invites reflection on how worship and the arts can build and nurture just communities. In our cultural moment, many shared institutions feel brittle and patterns of belonging are shifting. At the ISM, we are committed to the belief that artistic practices within faith communities can not only train attention, shape desire, and teach what counts as worthy and beautiful, but can also help to form the just community. Read the editor’s full letter
In this Issue
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Community and the Importance of Invitation, Culture and Governance, by Emmett G. Price III
A homiletical call to the theological responsibility of building just worshipping communities.
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George Inness Jr., Tonalism, and the Making of a Contemplative Commons, by Jon Seals
In community spaces, art can offer a contemplative commons, one honoring the spiritual, acknowledging harm, and gesturing toward restoration.
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Singing for a Better World, by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
A conversation with members of A Besere Velt to discuss the chorus’s evolution in expressing and strengthening Jewish identity, especially post-COVID.
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Singing Justice, by David Bjorlin
Our congregations desperately need resources that will help us imagine justice and encourage us in our communal practice of it.
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The Art of Community and the Making of Christianity, by Teresa Morgan
Shared life is an art, and art forms community. How do artists perform the work of community, and how do communities of faith respond to artists?
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The Opposite of Lament Is Not Praise; It Is Dishonesty, by Karen Campbell
In contexts shaped by trauma and divided memory, worship does more than express faith; it helps shape the conditions under which communities remember.
