What a Prostitution Survivor Taught Me About Joy
The unlikely route to joy involves entering the stories of suffering that have marked our lives.
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Poems for My Father
The poet Donald Paris writes about his father.
Saving von Balthasar’s Conversation with Barth: A Review of Saving Karl Barth
Stephen Long’s Saving Karl Barth demonstrates how theological friendship might begin to heal a five-hundred-year division in the church.
Navigating the Crisis of Movement: Rupture, Repetition, and New Life
With the help of Søren Kierkegaard, Dean Dettloff explores how traumatic experience alienates us from ourselves, our world, and our faith—and yet gets resolved through the wondrous renewal of life itself.
Three Prayers and a Consummation
Two women whose strategies for living a meaningful life conflict vie for ownership of an antique family barn.
Economies and Theologies: A Review of Reggie Williams’s Black Jesus
Reggie Williams’s Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus is a timely work for both Bonhoeffer studies and theological engagement in general.
A Dispatch from the Field(s)
Editor’s Note: Our Assistant Theology Editor, Stephanie, and her husband, Steven, are currently living and working in Tanzania with local coffee bean farmers. What follows is the first of several updates they plan to publish about their work here at TOJ. You can learn more about their work by visiting aftertrade.org. * * * A few weeks ago we […]
An Apocalyptic Climate
The roaring seas of the apocalypse are displacing millions of global refugees.
Shoshana’s Song
She rode out to sea at the wheel of the rented boat, her hair wild in the wind.
