This issue of The Other Journal examines the complex relationships between ourselves, our culture, and our food from a theological perspective. The thoughtful contributors to this issue take us to Middle Earth and the Romanian city of Constanta. They swing by swank Manhattan bistros and raucous NFL stadiums on game day. But most importantly, they return us to the Communion table and to that first garden where God walked with us and gave us the gift of his creation.
Writer Jeanne Murray Walker offers a mediation on leaving church and finding fellowship and peace at Produce Junction.
The tale of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” turns on the question of how to see …
In “Trees,” Jesus’ condemnation reenacts itself under a cherry tree, the red fruit hanging in “fistfuls” on a monastery hill.
If, as the editors of The Other Journal write, “there is a growing cultural concern …
Lee Price is a figurative painter from New York. She has been painting women and …
In the poem, MEH considers the draws of appetite and desire, for both food and God, as “sometimes sweet, often bitter…(a) blind rage which pursues us through the day…”
Editor’s Note: If you missed Part One of Ryan Harper’s article, click here. Louise Glück’s …
Ryan Harper muses on whether evangelicalism as we know it is hospitable to the poetic discipline.
William Cavanaugh responds to Stephen Webb’s critique.
