beauty Archives - The Other Journal

27: Identity

Being Pretty

Katherine James contemplates the fleetingness of beauty as she faces cancer and aging.

27: Identity

handiwork

Tomi Oredein offers her take on some of the beautiful ways we are human.

27: Identity

Occupied Identity: The Aesthetics of Palestinian Suicide Bombing

Derek Brown
December 12, 2016 / Theology

In this essay, Derek Brown asks what beauty does in the context of occupied Palestine.

Let’s Dance: Zumba and the <em>Imago Dei</em> of Beautiful Black Bodies

26: Sport

Let’s Dance: Zumba and the Imago Dei of Beautiful Black Bodies

Lakisha R. Lockhart-Rusch
March 10, 2016 / Theology

As a black woman, Zumba helps me to take back my body, a body that has been objectified, abused, oppressed, & oversexualized because of its color and shape.

The Briefing 7.4.14

David A. Garner
July 4, 2014 / From the Editor

Howard Megdal makes a defense for the hot dog: Let’s be honest: When you are …

23: Body

Beyond the Low-Rise Jean: Traces of Resurrection on the Catwalks of the Late Alexander McQueen

Robert Covolo
December 30, 2013 / Theology

Alexander McQueen’s theatrical catwalks presented a conflicted sketch of a miraculous, transformed, and beautiful body consistent with what Charles Taylor has identified as the theologically haunted condition of late-modern Romanticism.