Recently, The Other Journal was invited to attend the Sundance Film Festival with Into the Noise, a nonprofit that travels to large festivals like Sundance to explore the cultural and spiritual stories that are being shared by our world’s most creative thinkers and creators. Their goal is to approach each festival communally, thoughtfully, and theologically, to […]

The poet Libby Swope Wiersema writes on grief and healing.

Boyhood’s twelve-year-long view of time serves to reorient our perspective about what is important and meaningful in a lifetime.

In the wake of domestic violence, new kinship structures are crucial to providing safe spaces of healing and to developing communal practices of resistance.

Several pieces displayed in an art museum exhume the challenging past that led one young poet to a renewed sense of faith.

The trauma of God is both God in trauma (i.e., God on the cross) and God as trauma (i.e., God as the cross), crossing one another to place God sous rature (i.e., under the cross), where God becomes no more and no less than a word—but the only word bespeaking a truly universal human community.

The Other Journal features the abstract landscape paintings and writings of emerging artist George Davis.

A non-native-Midwesterner wonders out loud about the fields.

The once peripheral voices of African women theologians are prophetically calling for justice-oriented ways of reading the biblical text.