November 2, 2015 / Creative Writing
I. Breast, n. either of the pair of mammary glands extending from the front of …
Shea Tuttle
November 2, 2015 / Creative Writing
November 2, 2015 / Creative Writing
Issue 25: Trauma
In this issue of The Other Journal, we present interviews, art work, creative writing, and essays that address the complex territory of trauma’s effects on the lived experience, for both individuals and societies. We believe these pieces articulate a deep, multifaceted understanding of how a theology of trauma can help to shape and restore us through unearthing, naming, narrating, and bearing witness to its wounds, for as Frank Seeburger writes, “Only such a community of trauma—the community of all those who have nothing in common save the openness of their wounds—could be the kingdom of a God worth worshipping.”
Chris E. W. Green
October 29, 2015 / Perspective
October 29, 2015 / Perspective
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?
Jen Grabarczyk-Turner & Ken Gonzales-Day
October 26, 2015 / Art
October 26, 2015 / Art
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.
Chelle Stearns
October 22, 2015 / Theology
October 22, 2015 / Theology
The artist cannot pass lightly over the disorder of the creation without being guilty of …
Jay Stringer
October 19, 2015 / Praxis
October 19, 2015 / Praxis
The unlikely route to joy involves entering the stories of suffering that have marked our lives.
Cabe Matthews
October 12, 2015 / Perspective
October 12, 2015 / Perspective
Stephen Long’s Saving Karl Barth demonstrates how theological friendship might begin to heal a five-hundred-year division in the church.
Dean Dettloff
October 8, 2015 / Theology
October 8, 2015 / Theology
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.
Lori Huth
October 5, 2015 / Creative Writing
October 5, 2015 / Creative Writing
Two women whose strategies for living a meaningful life conflict vie for ownership of an antique family barn.