Waiting
Sarah L Sanderson pauses in the midst of an anxiety-filled wait for diagnostic surgery to wonder about the presence of God.
Sarah L Sanderson pauses in the midst of an anxiety-filled wait for diagnostic surgery to wonder about the presence of God.
In this interview with The Other Journal, Doug Frank discusses moving away from abusive theology toward a way of life that embraces love and suffering.
Not unlike the admonitions of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, religious leaders’ calls to welcome the disenfranchised stranger often fall on deaf ears in their congregations. I can’t help but wonder what’s going on here. What has brought the American church to this place? Why are so many Christians going against their religious authorities on this particular issue?
Our practices of petitionary prayer may make us misunderstand the work of the Holy Spirit when we are passing through the agonies of faith’s Gethsemane.
Author Katy Scrogin uses Václav Havel’s discussion of hope and fear to address the problem of individualism in US political life.
An essay that uses two recent Seattle Art Museum exhibits to compare Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, and Kurt Cobain and to reflect on the nature of celebrity.
In this essay, philosopher James K. A. Smith considers the theological implications of free speech in dialogue with Michel Foucault, cinema verité, and the award winning film, BURMA VJ. This essay was given as a lecture at the 2009 Film, Faith, and Justice Forum in Seattle, WA on October 16th, 2009.
“The root of all war is fear.”—Thomas Merton Our third grade classroom is filled with the colors of the rainbow. In it, Latoya’s map of her city of Asbury Park contains deep greens for parks and three shades of blue for the Atlantic, greeting her by way of the wind. She included some brown hues […]