In this theological response to the Haiti earthquake, Nathan Kerr suggests that rather than merely speaking about God, Christians should inhabit a mode of speaking to God that responds to the oppressed victims of Haiti by living in solidarity with them, both in revolt against the powers that oppress and in hope that God might liberate them to live and love freely.
In part one of this three-part interview, Christian historian and cultural critic Eugene McCarraher reflects on a difficult decade and the implications of the Tiger Woods and political scandals that dominated the 2009 news cycle.
An introduction to The Other Journal’s 18th edition: The Economy and Hope Issue.
Dan Rhodes talks to Chris Rice about the catastrophic failures, flashes of redemption, and possibilities for hope in a world of pain and conflict.
An interview with Cornel West on a range of issues, including politics, religion, power, language, the economy, and race.
After two decades of living under an overpass, drug abuse, and self-loathing, a man’s life is transformed through Restoration Ministries, a Christian residential recovery program in Illinois.
A reflection on the beauty of creation and redemption in the impoverished, agriculturally scarred towns along the Dominican Repulic and Haitian border.
A poem by Maureen McQuerry
Nicholas Ansell looks at the doctrine of hell in contemporary evangelicalism using John Stott’s view of hell as a point of critical reflection on the subject