Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Can we learn something about Christianity from Karl Marx? It occurs to me that this observation contains a timely insight which, properly applied, would allow us to disentangle the web […]
Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s recent film, The Stanford Prison Experiment, is itself a theological, cinematic experiment.
The aftermath of bodily trauma can yield unexpected revelations about oneself and others.
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Where can we find God in the wake of the Nepal earthquake? While I empathize with Tony’s revulsion at those who preach a God whose morality bears no resemblance to […]
Is there value in exploring the lives of sex offenders, regardless of how heartbreaking and difficult this exploration might be?
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 […]
Much to consider this month. Fandor is yet again is stacked with treasured, timeless items. Mubi has Lav Diaz’s lengthy From What is Before. We live in exciting times. — Movies Blackhat (iTunes) Blaise Pascal (Fandor) Bluebird (Netflix) Blue Velvet (Netflix) Chappie (iTunes) From What Is Before (Mubi) Fruitvale Station (Netflix) Grizzly Man (Amazon Prime) […]
The poet Libby Swope Wiersema writes on grief and healing.
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Tah-Nehisi Coates reflects on the role of nonviolence in Baltimore When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays itself. When nonviolence begins halfway […]