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The Law of the Gospel: A Review of Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology in a Time of Protests. Chris E. W. Green. October 22, 2020 / Perspective. Chris E. W. Green considers Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology and asks how we are to handle the troubling history of theology.

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Submissions. The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. JESUIT LIFE, FAMILY LIFE Jesuit Life, Family Life. By Bruce T. Morrill. March 8, 2021. One could say that as a member of the Jesuits I trace my lineage back to 1540, when Pope Paul III confirmed the founding of our religious order, the Society of Jesus ( Societas Jesu ), or to 1534, when a group of seven Spaniards, Portuguese, and Frenchmen met in Paris to

pledge their

ON RESURRECTING THE TRINITY AND THE NEW GENEROUS LIFE OF Jesus’s resurrection is for us “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). That is, the new eternal life of the community is sanctioned by the death and resurrection of God the Son (see John 3:16–18). This is reflected in Jesus’s difficult saying to Nicodemus: “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born

from above he

SEVEN SIGNS OF GLORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Seven Signs of Glory in the Gospel of John. By Cabe Matthews. April 5, 2021. Augustine of Hippo defines a sign as “a thing, which besides the impression it conveys to the senses, also has the effect of making something else come to mind.” 1 For Augustine, signs can be natural (like smoke signaling fire or one’s affect signaling an THE CONFIDENCE OF WOMEN: LUKE 1:39–56 In Israel and every nation, God is raising the humble, showing them mercy, doing such great things for them and through them that even those who most resist will not be able to help crying out, “Blessed is she!” (Luke 1:45). This is the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the good news he came to bring. GOD’S CHILD: A NEW IMAGINATION IN TRAUMA HEALING God’s Child: A New Imagination in Trauma Healing. By Margaret Trim. November 16, 2015. Childhood trauma severely limits one’s imagination of the self and the world, causing victims to define themselves by their past experiences. Central to the healing process is a restructuring of one’s imagination of self and the world. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY AND THE ART OF STORYTELLING AND About the Author. Willow Mindich Willow Mindich is a recent graduate from Colorado College, where she studied philosophy and psychoanalysis and founded Anamnesis: The Colorado College Journal of Philosophy.After a brief stint in Seattle, selling shoes, transcribing interviews, and teaching philosophy to fifth graders, Mindich has since relocated to New York and is pursuing further THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF WILLARDIAN THEOLOGY: A REVIEW OF Gary Black. The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith.Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013. Gary Black’s The Theology of Dallas Willard is a rather ambitious work with a rather specific audience. The book is written to and for post-evangelicals—that is, for those who find themselves estranged just within or just without the circles of mainline evangelicalism—and in it NAKED AND ASHAMED: WOMEN AND EVANGELICAL PURITY CULTURE Naked and Ashamed: Women and Evangelical Purity Culture. Throughout its history, the church has had a complicated relationship with the body, fraught with ambiguity and contradiction. 1 The body has been seen as both a vessel for salvation and a barrier to salvation, and sometimes those positions have been held simultaneously.

THE OTHER JOURNAL

The Law of the Gospel: A Review of Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology in a Time of Protests. Chris E. W. Green. October 22, 2020 / Perspective. Chris E. W. Green considers Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology and asks how we are to handle the troubling history of theology.

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Submissions. The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. JESUIT LIFE, FAMILY LIFE Jesuit Life, Family Life. By Bruce T. Morrill. March 8, 2021. One could say that as a member of the Jesuits I trace my lineage back to 1540, when Pope Paul III confirmed the founding of our religious order, the Society of Jesus ( Societas Jesu ), or to 1534, when a group of seven Spaniards, Portuguese, and Frenchmen met in Paris to

pledge their

ON RESURRECTING THE TRINITY AND THE NEW GENEROUS LIFE OF Jesus’s resurrection is for us “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). That is, the new eternal life of the community is sanctioned by the death and resurrection of God the Son (see John 3:16–18). This is reflected in Jesus’s difficult saying to Nicodemus: “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born

from above he

SEVEN SIGNS OF GLORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Seven Signs of Glory in the Gospel of John. By Cabe Matthews. April 5, 2021. Augustine of Hippo defines a sign as “a thing, which besides the impression it conveys to the senses, also has the effect of making something else come to mind.” 1 For Augustine, signs can be natural (like smoke signaling fire or one’s affect signaling an THE CONFIDENCE OF WOMEN: LUKE 1:39–56 In Israel and every nation, God is raising the humble, showing them mercy, doing such great things for them and through them that even those who most resist will not be able to help crying out, “Blessed is she!” (Luke 1:45). This is the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the good news he came to bring. GOD’S CHILD: A NEW IMAGINATION IN TRAUMA HEALING God’s Child: A New Imagination in Trauma Healing. By Margaret Trim. November 16, 2015. Childhood trauma severely limits one’s imagination of the self and the world, causing victims to define themselves by their past experiences. Central to the healing process is a restructuring of one’s imagination of self and the world. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY AND THE ART OF STORYTELLING AND About the Author. Willow Mindich Willow Mindich is a recent graduate from Colorado College, where she studied philosophy and psychoanalysis and founded Anamnesis: The Colorado College Journal of Philosophy.After a brief stint in Seattle, selling shoes, transcribing interviews, and teaching philosophy to fifth graders, Mindich has since relocated to New York and is pursuing further THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF WILLARDIAN THEOLOGY: A REVIEW OF Gary Black. The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith.Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013. Gary Black’s The Theology of Dallas Willard is a rather ambitious work with a rather specific audience. The book is written to and for post-evangelicals—that is, for those who find themselves estranged just within or just without the circles of mainline evangelicalism—and in it NAKED AND ASHAMED: WOMEN AND EVANGELICAL PURITY CULTURE Naked and Ashamed: Women and Evangelical Purity Culture. Throughout its history, the church has had a complicated relationship with the body, fraught with ambiguity and contradiction. 1 The body has been seen as both a vessel for salvation and a barrier to salvation, and sometimes those positions have been held simultaneously.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions. The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. SEVEN SIGNS OF GLORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Seven Signs of Glory in the Gospel of John. By Cabe Matthews. April 5, 2021. Augustine of Hippo defines a sign as “a thing, which besides the impression it conveys to the senses, also has the effect of making something else come to mind.” 1 For Augustine, signs can be natural (like smoke signaling fire or one’s affect signaling an FAMILY STORIES: GROWING IN OUR NARRATIVE The gospel, of course, is the binding narrative—the story—that creates and defines the church as God’s family. In Galatians 4:7, we read that “you are no longer a slave but a son , and if a son , then God has made you an heir” (CSB). Therefore, our Christian identity is shaped within the context of the

family

BROKEN SIGNPOSTS: A REVIEW OF N. T. WRIGHT’S HISTORY AND N. T. Wright. History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019).. N. T. Wright is the first biblical scholar since James Barr and Rudolf Bultmann, in 1991 and 1955, respectively, to receive a prestigious invitation to present a Gifford lecture.

A SOUND LIKE FOG

Mary Van Denend May 3, 2011 / Creative Writing Mary Van Denend reflects on Simone Weil’s “Waiting for God,” a seminal piece on Weil’s understandings of grace, affliction, and our ON CARING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: REFLECTIONS FROM Hauerwas, Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013), 222. Hauerwas, Approaching, 43. Swinton THE REAL JEFF KOONS: CONSUMER CULTURE AND THE GRAMMAR OF For people like Hughes, the baffling prices commanded by Koons’s works (e.g., $1.8 million for Pink Panther in 1999) seemed the final link in a perfect, localized, circular movement of escalating, artificial supply and demand, whizzing off the earth and spiraling into the airy realm of the Spectacle, where being is having, and having is merely appearing. 5 For Koons, it seemed, the POSTMODERNISM VS. CRITICAL REALISM Over the last couple years as a graduate student in sociology (not in philosophy, I should note), I’ve been thinking and reading about various philosophies of science, for both the natural and social sciences, and how those differing underlying philosophies actually relate to the ways that sociologists think about and conduct research.

RELIGION IN FILM

6. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956): This story about the unexpected conversion of a Japanese soldier at the end of WW II to monastic Buddhism is as wonderfully composed as it is enlightening. It is a fine film about trauma, death, and the way religion offers ritual

structures for

SCANDALIZING JOHN HOWARD YODER Scandalizing John Howard Yoder. By David Cramer & Jenny Howell & Jonathan Tran & Paul Martens. July 7, 2014. In the years following, some say preceding, the 1972 publication of his monumental The Politics of Jesus, the celebrated Christian ethicist John Howard Yoder emotionally manipulated and sexually violated numerous women.

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The Law of the Gospel: A Review of Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology in a Time of Protests. Chris E. W. Green. October 22, 2020 / Perspective. Chris E. W. Green considers Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology and asks how we are to handle the troubling history of theology.

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Submissions. The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. JESUIT LIFE, FAMILY LIFE Jesuit Life, Family Life. By Bruce T. Morrill. March 8, 2021. One could say that as a member of the Jesuits I trace my lineage back to 1540, when Pope Paul III confirmed the founding of our religious order, the Society of Jesus ( Societas Jesu ), or to 1534, when a group of seven Spaniards, Portuguese, and Frenchmen met in Paris to

pledge their

ON RESURRECTING THE TRINITY AND THE NEW GENEROUS LIFE OF Jesus’s resurrection is for us “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). That is, the new eternal life of the community is sanctioned by the death and resurrection of God the Son (see John 3:16–18). This is reflected in Jesus’s difficult saying to Nicodemus: “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born

from above he

SEVEN SIGNS OF GLORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Seven Signs of Glory in the Gospel of John. By Cabe Matthews. April 5, 2021. Augustine of Hippo defines a sign as “a thing, which besides the impression it conveys to the senses, also has the effect of making something else come to mind.” 1 For Augustine, signs can be natural (like smoke signaling fire or one’s affect signaling an THE CONFIDENCE OF WOMEN: LUKE 1:39–56 In Israel and every nation, God is raising the humble, showing them mercy, doing such great things for them and through them that even those who most resist will not be able to help crying out, “Blessed is she!” (Luke 1:45). This is the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the good news he came to bring. GOD’S CHILD: A NEW IMAGINATION IN TRAUMA HEALING God’s Child: A New Imagination in Trauma Healing. By Margaret Trim. November 16, 2015. Childhood trauma severely limits one’s imagination of the self and the world, causing victims to define themselves by their past experiences. Central to the healing process is a restructuring of one’s imagination of self and the world. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY AND THE ART OF STORYTELLING AND About the Author. Willow Mindich Willow Mindich is a recent graduate from Colorado College, where she studied philosophy and psychoanalysis and founded Anamnesis: The Colorado College Journal of Philosophy.After a brief stint in Seattle, selling shoes, transcribing interviews, and teaching philosophy to fifth graders, Mindich has since relocated to New York and is pursuing further THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF WILLARDIAN THEOLOGY: A REVIEW OF Gary Black. The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith.Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013. Gary Black’s The Theology of Dallas Willard is a rather ambitious work with a rather specific audience. The book is written to and for post-evangelicals—that is, for those who find themselves estranged just within or just without the circles of mainline evangelicalism—and in it NAKED AND ASHAMED: WOMEN AND EVANGELICAL PURITY CULTURE Naked and Ashamed: Women and Evangelical Purity Culture. Throughout its history, the church has had a complicated relationship with the body, fraught with ambiguity and contradiction. 1 The body has been seen as both a vessel for salvation and a barrier to salvation, and sometimes those positions have been held simultaneously.

THE OTHER JOURNAL

The Law of the Gospel: A Review of Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology in a Time of Protests. Chris E. W. Green. October 22, 2020 / Perspective. Chris E. W. Green considers Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology and asks how we are to handle the troubling history of theology.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions. The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. JESUIT LIFE, FAMILY LIFE Jesuit Life, Family Life. By Bruce T. Morrill. March 8, 2021. One could say that as a member of the Jesuits I trace my lineage back to 1540, when Pope Paul III confirmed the founding of our religious order, the Society of Jesus ( Societas Jesu ), or to 1534, when a group of seven Spaniards, Portuguese, and Frenchmen met in Paris to

pledge their

ON RESURRECTING THE TRINITY AND THE NEW GENEROUS LIFE OF Jesus’s resurrection is for us “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). That is, the new eternal life of the community is sanctioned by the death and resurrection of God the Son (see John 3:16–18). This is reflected in Jesus’s difficult saying to Nicodemus: “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born

from above he

SEVEN SIGNS OF GLORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Seven Signs of Glory in the Gospel of John. By Cabe Matthews. April 5, 2021. Augustine of Hippo defines a sign as “a thing, which besides the impression it conveys to the senses, also has the effect of making something else come to mind.” 1 For Augustine, signs can be natural (like smoke signaling fire or one’s affect signaling an THE CONFIDENCE OF WOMEN: LUKE 1:39–56 In Israel and every nation, God is raising the humble, showing them mercy, doing such great things for them and through them that even those who most resist will not be able to help crying out, “Blessed is she!” (Luke 1:45). This is the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the good news he came to bring. GOD’S CHILD: A NEW IMAGINATION IN TRAUMA HEALING God’s Child: A New Imagination in Trauma Healing. By Margaret Trim. November 16, 2015. Childhood trauma severely limits one’s imagination of the self and the world, causing victims to define themselves by their past experiences. Central to the healing process is a restructuring of one’s imagination of self and the world. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY AND THE ART OF STORYTELLING AND About the Author. Willow Mindich Willow Mindich is a recent graduate from Colorado College, where she studied philosophy and psychoanalysis and founded Anamnesis: The Colorado College Journal of Philosophy.After a brief stint in Seattle, selling shoes, transcribing interviews, and teaching philosophy to fifth graders, Mindich has since relocated to New York and is pursuing further THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF WILLARDIAN THEOLOGY: A REVIEW OF Gary Black. The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith.Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013. Gary Black’s The Theology of Dallas Willard is a rather ambitious work with a rather specific audience. The book is written to and for post-evangelicals—that is, for those who find themselves estranged just within or just without the circles of mainline evangelicalism—and in it NAKED AND ASHAMED: WOMEN AND EVANGELICAL PURITY CULTURE Naked and Ashamed: Women and Evangelical Purity Culture. Throughout its history, the church has had a complicated relationship with the body, fraught with ambiguity and contradiction. 1 The body has been seen as both a vessel for salvation and a barrier to salvation, and sometimes those positions have been held simultaneously.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions. The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. SEVEN SIGNS OF GLORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Seven Signs of Glory in the Gospel of John. By Cabe Matthews. April 5, 2021. Augustine of Hippo defines a sign as “a thing, which besides the impression it conveys to the senses, also has the effect of making something else come to mind.” 1 For Augustine, signs can be natural (like smoke signaling fire or one’s affect signaling an FAMILY STORIES: GROWING IN OUR NARRATIVE The gospel, of course, is the binding narrative—the story—that creates and defines the church as God’s family. In Galatians 4:7, we read that “you are no longer a slave but a son , and if a son , then God has made you an heir” (CSB). Therefore, our Christian identity is shaped within the context of the

family

BROKEN SIGNPOSTS: A REVIEW OF N. T. WRIGHT’S HISTORY AND N. T. Wright. History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019).. N. T. Wright is the first biblical scholar since James Barr and Rudolf Bultmann, in 1991 and 1955, respectively, to receive a prestigious invitation to present a Gifford lecture.

A SOUND LIKE FOG

Mary Van Denend May 3, 2011 / Creative Writing Mary Van Denend reflects on Simone Weil’s “Waiting for God,” a seminal piece on Weil’s understandings of grace, affliction, and our ON CARING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: REFLECTIONS FROM Hauerwas, Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013), 222. Hauerwas, Approaching, 43. Swinton THE REAL JEFF KOONS: CONSUMER CULTURE AND THE GRAMMAR OF For people like Hughes, the baffling prices commanded by Koons’s works (e.g., $1.8 million for Pink Panther in 1999) seemed the final link in a perfect, localized, circular movement of escalating, artificial supply and demand, whizzing off the earth and spiraling into the airy realm of the Spectacle, where being is having, and having is merely appearing. 5 For Koons, it seemed, the POSTMODERNISM VS. CRITICAL REALISM Over the last couple years as a graduate student in sociology (not in philosophy, I should note), I’ve been thinking and reading about various philosophies of science, for both the natural and social sciences, and how those differing underlying philosophies actually relate to the ways that sociologists think about and conduct research.

RELIGION IN FILM

6. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956): This story about the unexpected conversion of a Japanese soldier at the end of WW II to monastic Buddhism is as wonderfully composed as it is enlightening. It is a fine film about trauma, death, and the way religion offers ritual

structures for

SCANDALIZING JOHN HOWARD YODER Scandalizing John Howard Yoder. By David Cramer & Jenny Howell & Jonathan Tran & Paul Martens. July 7, 2014. In the years following, some say preceding, the 1972 publication of his monumental The Politics of Jesus, the celebrated Christian ethicist John Howard Yoder emotionally manipulated and sexually violated numerous women.

THE OTHER JOURNAL

The Law of the Gospel: A Review of Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology in a Time of Protests. Chris E. W. Green. October 22, 2020 / Perspective. Chris E. W. Green considers Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology and asks how we are to handle the troubling history of theology.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions. The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. SEVEN SIGNS OF GLORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Seven Signs of Glory in the Gospel of John. By Cabe Matthews. April 5, 2021. Augustine of Hippo defines a sign as “a thing, which besides the impression it conveys to the senses, also has the effect of making something else come to mind.” 1 For Augustine, signs can be natural (like smoke signaling fire or one’s affect signaling an ON RESURRECTING THE TRINITY AND THE NEW GENEROUS LIFE OF Jesus’s resurrection is for us “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). That is, the new eternal life of the community is sanctioned by the death and resurrection of God the Son (see John 3:16–18). This is reflected in Jesus’s difficult saying to Nicodemus: “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born

from above he

A SOUND LIKE FOG

Mary Van Denend May 3, 2011 / Creative Writing Mary Van Denend reflects on Simone Weil’s “Waiting for God,” a seminal piece on Weil’s understandings of grace, affliction, and our GOD’S CHILD: A NEW IMAGINATION IN TRAUMA HEALING God’s Child: A New Imagination in Trauma Healing. By Margaret Trim. November 16, 2015. Childhood trauma severely limits one’s imagination of the self and the world, causing victims to define themselves by their past experiences. Central to the healing process is a restructuring of one’s imagination of self and the world. THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF WILLARDIAN THEOLOGY: A REVIEW OF Gary Black. The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith.Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013. Gary Black’s The Theology of Dallas Willard is a rather ambitious work with a rather specific audience. The book is written to and for post-evangelicals—that is, for those who find themselves estranged just within or just without the circles of mainline evangelicalism—and in it PRAY AS YOU CAN, NOT AS YOU CAN’T: EXPLORING A PRAYER Pray as you can, and do not try to pray as you can’t. 1. This was the pithy advice given by Abbot John Chapman (1865–1933) to the laypeople, monks, nuns, and priests who wrote to him seeking guidance in a life of prayer. Chapman was an English Benedictine monk, abbot, and scholar of early church history. But he’s best known for his

RELIGION IN FILM

6. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956): This story about the unexpected conversion of a Japanese soldier at the end of WW II to monastic Buddhism is as wonderfully composed as it is enlightening. It is a fine film about trauma, death, and the way religion offers ritual

structures for

25 ESSENTIAL JEWISH MOVIES: BANGITOUT.COM At bangitout.com Jordan Hiller writes about films from the perspective of their relevance to Jewish culture. In December 2009 he completed a series on “25 Essential Jewish Movies,” a curious list including not only films that offer substantial insights into his faith community, but also films with peripheral interest, admitted poor quality, or even title he finds particularly offensive or

THE OTHER JOURNAL

The Law of the Gospel: A Review of Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology in a Time of Protests. Chris E. W. Green. October 22, 2020 / Perspective. Chris E. W. Green considers Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology and asks how we are to handle the troubling history of theology.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions. The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. SEVEN SIGNS OF GLORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Seven Signs of Glory in the Gospel of John. By Cabe Matthews. April 5, 2021. Augustine of Hippo defines a sign as “a thing, which besides the impression it conveys to the senses, also has the effect of making something else come to mind.” 1 For Augustine, signs can be natural (like smoke signaling fire or one’s affect signaling an ON RESURRECTING THE TRINITY AND THE NEW GENEROUS LIFE OF Jesus’s resurrection is for us “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). That is, the new eternal life of the community is sanctioned by the death and resurrection of God the Son (see John 3:16–18). This is reflected in Jesus’s difficult saying to Nicodemus: “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born

from above he

A SOUND LIKE FOG

Mary Van Denend May 3, 2011 / Creative Writing Mary Van Denend reflects on Simone Weil’s “Waiting for God,” a seminal piece on Weil’s understandings of grace, affliction, and our GOD’S CHILD: A NEW IMAGINATION IN TRAUMA HEALING God’s Child: A New Imagination in Trauma Healing. By Margaret Trim. November 16, 2015. Childhood trauma severely limits one’s imagination of the self and the world, causing victims to define themselves by their past experiences. Central to the healing process is a restructuring of one’s imagination of self and the world. THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF WILLARDIAN THEOLOGY: A REVIEW OF Gary Black. The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith.Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013. Gary Black’s The Theology of Dallas Willard is a rather ambitious work with a rather specific audience. The book is written to and for post-evangelicals—that is, for those who find themselves estranged just within or just without the circles of mainline evangelicalism—and in it PRAY AS YOU CAN, NOT AS YOU CAN’T: EXPLORING A PRAYER Pray as you can, and do not try to pray as you can’t. 1. This was the pithy advice given by Abbot John Chapman (1865–1933) to the laypeople, monks, nuns, and priests who wrote to him seeking guidance in a life of prayer. Chapman was an English Benedictine monk, abbot, and scholar of early church history. But he’s best known for his

RELIGION IN FILM

6. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956): This story about the unexpected conversion of a Japanese soldier at the end of WW II to monastic Buddhism is as wonderfully composed as it is enlightening. It is a fine film about trauma, death, and the way religion offers ritual

structures for

25 ESSENTIAL JEWISH MOVIES: BANGITOUT.COM At bangitout.com Jordan Hiller writes about films from the perspective of their relevance to Jewish culture. In December 2009 he completed a series on “25 Essential Jewish Movies,” a curious list including not only films that offer substantial insights into his faith community, but also films with peripheral interest, admitted poor quality, or even title he finds particularly offensive or

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions. The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice.

CURIOSITY ARCHIVES

L. Roger Owens June 7, 2021 / Theology Roger Owens seeks mystery and communion while gazing at the moon on a cold January night. BROKEN SIGNPOSTS: A REVIEW OF N. T. WRIGHT’S HISTORY AND N. T. Wright. History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019).. N. T. Wright is the first biblical scholar since James Barr and Rudolf Bultmann, in 1991 and 1955, respectively, to receive a prestigious invitation to present a Gifford lecture.

JON COUTTS ARCHIVES

Jon Coutts. Jon Coutts is assistant professor of Christian theology at Ambrose University in Calgary, Canada. Before teaching at Ambrose, he pastored in Canada, completed a PhD under John Webster in Aberdeen, Scotland, and taught ethics in Bristol, England. ANCHORS - THE OTHER JOURNAL Anchors. after picking rosemary, spearmint, peppermint, catnip, sweet basil, purple basil, Thai basil, oregano, chives, thyme, and sage. or even that you go on and on, as if by exhaustion, by exhalation, you could finally reach exaltation), sometimes, no doubt, as they were thinking of all the things they would do after leaving this. AUGUSTINE, TIME, AND THE MOVEMENT OF ETERNITY Augustine, Confessions, 257 (italics added) and 267. The latter quote occurs in a discussion of the unformed and chaotic abyss over which God’s spirit moved, which gives us an example of disordered “change” without time. Hence, it is only a certain change that is to be understood as temporally ordered. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY AND THE ART OF STORYTELLING AND About the Author. Willow Mindich Willow Mindich is a recent graduate from Colorado College, where she studied philosophy and psychoanalysis and founded Anamnesis: The Colorado College Journal of Philosophy.After a brief stint in Seattle, selling shoes, transcribing interviews, and teaching philosophy to fifth graders, Mindich has since relocated to New York and is pursuing further JESUS AND THE DISPOSSESSED Jesus and the Dispossessed. By Justin Randall Phillips. October 31, 2016. At the Republican National Convention, Senator Lindsey Graham noted the shifting national demographics and commented, “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.” 1. Graham said this at the 2012 convention. ON CARING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: REFLECTIONS FROM Hauerwas, Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013), 222. Hauerwas, Approaching, 43. Swinton 25 ESSENTIAL JEWISH MOVIES: BANGITOUT.COM At bangitout.com Jordan Hiller writes about films from the perspective of their relevance to Jewish culture. In December 2009 he completed a series on “25 Essential Jewish Movies,” a curious list including not only films that offer substantial insights into his faith community, but also films with peripheral interest, admitted poor quality, or even title he finds particularly offensive or

THE OTHER JOURNAL

The Law of the Gospel: A Review of Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology in a Time of Protests. Chris E. W. Green. October 22, 2020 / Perspective. Chris E. W. Green considers Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology and asks how we are to handle the troubling history of theology.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions. The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. SEVEN SIGNS OF GLORY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Seven Signs of Glory in the Gospel of John. By Cabe Matthews. April 5, 2021. Augustine of Hippo defines a sign as “a thing, which besides the impression it conveys to the senses, also has the effect of making something else come to mind.” 1 For Augustine, signs can be natural (like smoke signaling fire or one’s affect signaling an ON RESURRECTING THE TRINITY AND THE NEW GENEROUS LIFE OF Jesus’s resurrection is for us “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). That is, the new eternal life of the community is sanctioned by the death and resurrection of God the Son (see John 3:16–18). This is reflected in Jesus’s difficult saying to Nicodemus: “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born

from above he

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from above he

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6. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956): This story about the unexpected conversion of a Japanese soldier at the end of WW II to monastic Buddhism is as wonderfully composed as it is enlightening. It is a fine film about trauma, death, and the way religion offers ritual

structures for

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from above he

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Nik Ansell. Nicholas Ansell is professor of theology at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is interested in exploring the shape of a reformational theology sensitive to the spirituality of existence and to the eschatologically open nature of creation. He is also interested in examining the relationship between faith and belief ON CARING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: REFLECTIONS FROMAGENCY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIESAGENCY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIESGRANTS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIESHELP FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIESHELP FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIESRESOURCES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Hauerwas, Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013), 222. Hauerwas, Approaching, 43. Swinton THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF WILLARDIAN THEOLOGY: A REVIEW OF Gary Black. The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith.Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013. Gary Black’s The Theology of Dallas Willard is a rather ambitious work with a rather specific audience. The book is written to and for post-evangelicals—that is, for those who find themselves estranged just within or just without the circles of mainline evangelicalism—and in it NAKED AND ASHAMED: WOMEN AND EVANGELICAL PURITY CULTUREEVANGELICAL PURITY CULTUREHISTORY OF PURITY CULTUREPURITY CULTURE BOOKSPURITY CULTURE DAMAGEPURITY CULTURE NPRTALKING BACK TO PURITY CULTURE Naked and Ashamed: Women and Evangelical Purity Culture. Throughout its history, the church has had a complicated relationship with the body, fraught with ambiguity and contradiction. 1 The body has been seen as both a vessel for salvation and a barrier to salvation, and sometimes those positions have been held simultaneously.

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For those to whom the world looks for guidance, we entreat your wisdom. Shepherd, guide us through this shadow of death. For all that is obscured, we ask for light. From all our selfishness, we repent. From all our anxiety, we turn. ON RESURRECTING THE TRINITY AND THE NEW GENEROUS LIFE OF Jesus’s resurrection is for us “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). That is, the new eternal life of the community is sanctioned by the death and resurrection of God the Son (see John 3:16–18). This is reflected in Jesus’s difficult saying to Nicodemus: “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born

from above he

BROKEN SIGNPOSTS: A REVIEW OF N. T. WRIGHT’S HISTORY AND N. T. Wright. History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019).. N. T. Wright is the first biblical scholar since James Barr and Rudolf Bultmann, in 1991 and 1955, respectively, to receive a prestigious invitation to present a Gifford lecture. MAKING THIS A HOLY MOMENT: A GOOD FRIDAY REFLECTION Making This a Holy Moment: A Good Friday Reflection. I always come to Good Friday with mixed emotions. On the one hand, we are remembering a horrific death. Crucifixion was a terrible way to die. The Gospels spare us the gruesome details, but even from what we read, we know that death on a Roman cross was slow, painful, and humiliating.

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Nik Ansell. Nicholas Ansell is professor of theology at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He is interested in exploring the shape of a reformational theology sensitive to the spirituality of existence and to the eschatologically open nature of creation. He is also interested in examining the relationship between faith and belief ON CARING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: REFLECTIONS FROM Hauerwas, Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013), 222. Hauerwas, Approaching, 43. Swinton THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF WILLARDIAN THEOLOGY: A REVIEW OF Gary Black. The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith.Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013. Gary Black’s The Theology of Dallas Willard is a rather ambitious work with a rather specific audience. The book is written to and for post-evangelicals—that is, for those who find themselves estranged just within or just without the circles of mainline evangelicalism—and in it NAKED AND ASHAMED: WOMEN AND EVANGELICAL PURITY CULTURE Naked and Ashamed: Women and Evangelical Purity Culture. Throughout its history, the church has had a complicated relationship with the body, fraught with ambiguity and contradiction. 1 The body has been seen as both a vessel for salvation and a barrier to salvation, and sometimes those positions have been held simultaneously. ABOUT - THE OTHER JOURNAL The Other Journal is a twice-yearly print and digital journal that aims to create space for Christian interdisciplinary reflection, exploration, and expression at the intersection of theology and culture.Attempting to remain a step or two more popular than the typical scholarly journal and a step or two more scholarly than the typical popular magazine, our goal is to provide our readers with THE OTHER REVIEW: WHAT’S A BODY? In a similar register, Natalie Carnes’s Motherhood explores a different—though clearly related—type of tension between bodily life, contiguity, and separation. That tension turns out to be haptic all the way through. Carnes’s Motherhood is the result of a rather compelling question: what if Augustine’s Confessions were written by the twenty-first-century mother? ON RESURRECTING THE TRINITY AND THE NEW GENEROUS LIFE OF Jesus’s resurrection is for us “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). That is, the new eternal life of the community is sanctioned by the death and resurrection of God the Son (see John 3:16–18). This is reflected in Jesus’s difficult saying to Nicodemus: “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born

from above he

THE FIRE, THE TABLE, AND THE ZOOM CALL: THE JOURNEY TO When I was in high school, I would go winter camping with a couple of friends. We would stay up late into the night, throwing wood on the campfire while talking about a wide variety of topics and listening to the band Journey on cassette.

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Mary Van Denend May 3, 2011 / Creative Writing Mary Van Denend reflects on Simone Weil’s “Waiting for God,” a seminal piece on Weil’s understandings of grace, affliction, and our NAKED AND ASHAMED: WOMEN AND EVANGELICAL PURITY CULTURE Naked and Ashamed: Women and Evangelical Purity Culture. Throughout its history, the church has had a complicated relationship with the body, fraught with ambiguity and contradiction. 1 The body has been seen as both a vessel for salvation and a barrier to salvation, and sometimes those positions have been held simultaneously. JESUS AND THE DISPOSSESSED Jesus and the Dispossessed. By Justin Randall Phillips. October 31, 2016. At the Republican National Convention, Senator Lindsey Graham noted the shifting national demographics and commented, “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.” 1. Graham said this at the 2012 convention. HALDEN DOERGE CHARTING EVANGELICAL FUTURES IN AN AGE OF Notes 1. Bruce Ellis Benson and Peter Goodwin Heltzel, “Introduction,” in Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2008), 11–12. All further references are to this volume. 2. James K. A. Smith,

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THE SHIFT THAT WASN’T: C. S. LEWIS AND BERNARD ACWORTH Acworth had already published a whole book attacking evolution (This Progress, the Tragedy of Evolution, 1934) and tackled the subject in other works as well (e.g., This Bondage, 1929). To him, as to some Creationists today, evolution wasn’t just wrong: it was the wellspring of all our ills, “an unalloyed evil which accounts for the present bankruptcy of civilization” (Bondage, 333). THE REAL JEFF KOONS: CONSUMER CULTURE AND THE GRAMMAR OF For people like Hughes, the baffling prices commanded by Koons’s works (e.g., $1.8 million for Pink Panther in 1999) seemed the final link in a perfect, localized, circular movement of escalating, artificial supply and demand, whizzing off the earth and spiraling into the airy realm of the Spectacle, where being is having, and having is merely appearing. 5 For Koons, it seemed, the

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