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A woman wrestles with how post-traumatic stress disorder affects her daily life and faith.
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God’s Child: A New Imagination in Trauma Healing
Childhood trauma severely limits one’s imagination of the self and the world, causing victims to define themselves by their past experiences. Central to the healing process is a restructuring of one’s imagination of self and the world. In her book Trauma and Recovery, the psychiatrist Judith Herman describes hope as the final stage of recovery […]
Practicing Politics: A Review of Kingdom Politics
In their collaborative search for “a new political imagination for today’s church,” Kingdom Politics authors Kristopher Norris and Sam Speers put into practice their own form of ecclesial witness.
Tweeting the Impossible Forgiveness: Some Resources from Continental Philosophy for Thinking about Charleston, Mercy, and Social Media
On Wednesday, June 18, in Charleston, South Carolina, a tight-knit group of black men and women at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church welcomed a young white man to pray and read with them at their weekly Bible study. As they were wrapping up, the white man stood, announced his racist rationalizations, and shot at them. […]
Beloved Community as Benedict Option
If Benedict found inspiration in the desert, so can Rod Dreher.
Words I Couldn’t Say
I. Breast, n. either of the pair of mammary glands extending from the front of the chest in pubescent and adult human females and some other mammals the seat of emotion and thought[1] When my breasts started to develop in early puberty, I thought I had cancer. On a family visit to my grandparents’ […]
What You Are Is Beautiful: A Review of Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology Vol. 1
In the end, the strangeness and opulence of her prose leaves the impression that Sonderegger is drunk with delight at the thought of God’s nature. And who can fault her for that?
Aesthetics, Social Equity, and Modern-Day Vigilantes: An Interview with Ken Gonzales-Day
The Other Journal interviews internationally recognized artist Ken Gonzales-Day about his recent project Run Up, his perspective on historically constructed systems of race and representation, and his posture of bearing witness to traumatic cultural realities through his work.
A Theological Aesthetic of Dissonance: Trauma, Lament, and the Seven Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
The artist cannot pass lightly over the disorder of the creation without being guilty of colossal self-deception and becoming utterly irrelevant to the needs of a broken and torn world. —Jeremy Begbie, Voicing Creation’s Praise A number of years ago, I attended a recital by the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. She began with Anton Webern’s Four […]
