violence

n this poem, Caitlin Mackenzie poetically demonstrates that violence causes a diminished view of humanity and creation, and thus we must constantly seek to see wholeness.

In this personal essay, Greta Bergquist recounts the struggles and joys of teaching in a low-income, segregated Baltimore high school as part of Teach for America.

This article examines the trend of children used as tools and exploitation in world violence and war, and offers hopeful questions for those seeking to make a difference.

The Other Journal (TOJ): Much of your work is an attempt to trace the genealogy of the nation state, searching out its arbitrary moments and constitutive myths. What are some of the dominant myths that you see currently continuing in legitimating the state’s power and how it maps social relations today? Bill Cavanaugh (BC): I […]

I’ve drawn blood from others, in my childhood, even friends and kin— slit the heavy garment of skin or split sinus caves with the hard hammer of my fist. Very young, I cried if my sister hurt herself. Later, her hot blood slicked my hammering hand— that hurt was, more than hers, my own. And […]

In this interview, Miroslav Volf discusses the relationship between Christianity and revolution, what it means to practice transformative theologizing, why evangelicals need a more integral understanding of salvation, his current efforts to articulate an account of human flourishing to serve as an alternative to prevalent accounts of flourishing as experientially satisfying life, his concerns about the Hiltonization of American culture, and perhaps most importantly, how his most recent book, The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World (2006), awarded the Best Book award by Christianity Today in the area of Christianity and Culture, seeks to address one of the most pressing issues of our time—the memory of wrongdoing suffered by a person who desires neither to hate nor to disregard but to love the wrongdoer.

There is a sense in which, particularly in the summer, all roads lead to Africa. Visitors are not just rich Americans on Safari to visit Africa’s wild life or luxuriate in the stunning and exotic beauty of Africa’s landscapes and game parks. Instead, travelers include health workers going to live in an African village, World […]

I have been known to shed my share of tears over stories of human suffering, to ache for the voiceless victims whose eyes stare out at me from the pages of human interest stories. The story of the forgotten women and girl-children of Northern Uganda is therefore one that is close to my heart. As […]