November 16, 2015 / Theology
Childhood trauma severely limits one’s imagination of the self and the world, causing victims to …
Margaret Trim
November 16, 2015 / Theology
November 16, 2015 / Theology
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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.
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.
David Pettit
September 14, 2015 / Praxis
September 14, 2015 / Praxis
Pain and trauma can lead us beyond the limits of our conceptual frameworks to new ways of connecting with God and others.
Chelle Stearns & Shelly Rambo
August 31, 2015 / Theology
August 31, 2015 / Theology
Christian theologies of suffering often move too quickly to redemption, but in this interview with Shelly Rambo, she advocates a theology that remains in the ambiguous middle space between life and death, bearing witness to how trauma lingers in human experience.
Hilary Jerome Scarsella
July 27, 2015 / Theology
July 27, 2015 / Theology
Is God’s love of any material benefit to trauma survivors, particularly to survivors of sexualized violence?