Eucharist Archives - The Other Journal

30: Authority

Because We Are Bodies: Bread, Wine, Rice, Water

Mary Lane Potter treks in Laos and discovers new meaning in the sacrament of Communion.

25.5: Encounter

Católicos Por La Raza and the Cardinal’s Midnight Mass: Interrupting the Eucharist to Establish Just Worship

Jason Steidl
May 2, 2016 / Theology

Jason Steidl revisits the day in 1969 when Católicos Por La Raza activists planned to confront their cardinal at the Eucharistic table.

The Rhizome of Life

Matthew Tan
December 18, 2013 / The Church & Postmodern Culture

The following is a guest post from Matthew John Paul Tan. Matthew is a Lecturer …

23: Body

Repetition: Its Essential Role in the Harming and Healing of Our Bodies

Jay Stringer
November 18, 2013 / Praxis

In this essay, Jay Stringer argues that healing and addiction share the same architecture: repetition. The extent to which we turn to face our trauma and shame is the best predictor for the way our story will unfold.

23: Body

Weighty Things: Unhealthy Bodies and the Body of Christ

Debra Dean Murphy
October 14, 2013 / Praxis

In the Eucharist we have a material practice that makes of us a social body, implicating all our eating and overeating.

Killing Whitey and Other Jive Turkeys: Thanksgiving with NOFX

Tripp York
November 18, 2012 / The Amish Jihadist

Below is an article originally published in Christian Ethics Today, The Mennonite, and Third Way Allegiance. It’s, obviously, that …

19: Food

Finding Connection in the Bread and the Cup

Jo-Ann Badley & Stephanie Neill
October 11, 2011 / Theology

Jo-Ann Badley and Stephanie Neill propose that the current interest in food in North American culture redresses cultural patterns of detachment in ways consonant with New Testament practices of communion, calling us to gratitude and recognition of the relational character of human living.