Who We Are
Chris Keller - Editor-in-Chief, Co-Founder
Brian Munz - Webmaster, Co-Founder, Senior Editor
Andrew David - Managing Editor, Assistant Editor (Imagination section)
Becky Crook – Creative Writing Editor (Imagination section)
Jon Stanley - Theology Editor (Examination section)
Andy Barnes - Book, Film, & Music Review Editor (Perspective section)
Ben Suriano - Assistant Editor (Examination section)
Dan Rhodes - Assistant Editor (Examination section)
Seth Rash - Assistant Editor (Perspective section)
Scott Small - Intern
Andrew Carlson - Intern
Shannon Presler - Intern
The Other Journal is an online quarterly publication that promotes vibrant discourse at the intersections of theology and culture.
The Other Journal is a online quarterly journal that aims to create space for Christian interdisciplinary reflection, exploration, and expression. Attempting to remain a notch or two more popular than the typical scholarly journal and a notch or two more scholarly than the typical popular magazine, our goal is to provide our readers with provocative, challenging and insightful Christian commentary on current social issues, political events, cultural trends, and pop phenomena.
Each issue of The Other Journal is organized around a particular topic or theme, and includes sections dedicated to:
Examination - articles, essays and interviews
Imagination - creative writing, short story, poetry and prose
Creation - art exhibits
Perspective - literature, movie and music reviews
Praxis – practical applications of theological themes
The Other Journal was founded in 2002 by Chris Keller (a psychotherapist from Seattle, WA) and Brian Munz (a web developer from Philadelphia, PA). Their original vision for the The Other Journal was to provide space for Christian graduate students to share their work in a spirit of dialogue and mutual criticism.
Brian and Chris’s vision for The Other Journal continued to unfold, soon becoming that of inviting leading Christian thinkers and practitioners to reflect together upon various themes in an interdisciplinary context, and in a format that hits the niche between a typical scholarly journal and a typical popular magazine.
The team of editors, web designers, writers and artists that has become The Other Journal staff community is a vibrant group of people working in a wide range of vocations. Our common commitment to being a progressive, constructive and charitable Christian voice in contemporary society through our participation The Other Journal is one piece of the larger puzzle of loving God and neighbor and investing our lives in the hope that our world would be further characterized by justice and peace.
In the summer of 2005, The Other Journal partnered with Seattle-based Bakke Graduate University, a school committed to training urban leaders in a global context. In 2007, The Other Journal moved into a partnership with Mars Hill Graduate School and now operates in partnership with that Seattle-based school.
Looking for a Light Switch: Scenes from an Urban Classroom
canary says ::
My daughter teaches in Baltimore and comes home with similar stories and emotions. The article captured mood of many of teachers in urban settings. I have been teaching in a smaller urban school for over 30 years and have known the trials and tribula . . .READ MORE >
Bog Psalm
Christin says ::
Elegant! Strange that in an issue devoted to the topic of atheism, I am thinking "resurrection."READ MORE >
From Church to “Rhizone”: Reconfiguring Theological Education for the Postmodern Era
Christin says ::
I'm new to The Other Journal, very new. This is the first article I've read, and am excited with Carl Raschke's vision. I find in it echoes of books I read in my youth such as "The End of Conventional Christianity." My thinking and writing has led me . . .READ MORE >
Why Every Christian Should ‘Quite Rightly Pass for an Atheist’
jstanley says ::
Paul, Thank you very much for both your compliment on the "open-mindedness" of the article, and your "playful obstinance" (after all, it's the best kind of 'obstinance'). As I mentioned in my essay, classification can be for good or ill, better o . . .READ MORE >
Why Every Christian Should ‘Quite Rightly Pass for an Atheist’
paulx82 says ::
Thank you for a open-minded perspective on things, Jon. It is quite rare. Just to be playfully obstinate with reductionist classification... you seem to be a "Without God, we can't; without us, God won't" kind of guy with a Kingdom theology in bot . . .READ MORE >
Review of Robert W. Brimlow’s What About Hitler?: Wrestling with Jesus’s Call to Nonviolence in an Evil World
laudatus says ::
I wonder what a Jew would think of this theology? This is not rhetorical game playing, but a serious suggestion. Being a well protected citizen is the condition for the possiblity of the logic in this book. Tertullian's theology, and his claim tha . . .READ MORE >
Three Questions on Modern Atheism: An Interview with John Milbank
Andy says ::
Is the world rapidly Christianizing? I thought I'd read that, partly because of high birth rates, Islam was the fastest growing religion in the world. Is that data out of date or am I mistaken?READ MORE >
Thoughts On: The National -- A Skin A Night DVD/The Virginia EP
b2dasein says ::
I walked away from watching A Skin, A Night thinking "Vincent! A year of filming and this is all you give us? A miserly few moments of the band in process or halfway overheard conversations cut with subway scenes and cityscapes?" Yeah, I felt like . . .READ MORE >
On Grief, Faith, and Friendship
bbresson says ::
Chris, Was Shedden's review ever posted on TOJ? I've poked around and not found it. Thanks for your thoughts on living without explanation. bradREAD MORE >
The AIDS Crisis in Africa – Who Cares?
Douglas says ::
As a missionary in Mozambique, I have been spending this last year teaching at seminars to pastors all around the country on the culture of the New Morality, the trap of sexual immorality, and God's alternative plan of marriage. My agency, OC Africa . . .READ MORE >
Thomas Princen’s The Logic of Sufficiency: A Sapling in a Landfill
janarayne says ::
Thank you so much for this review, I have ordered the book. I have been searching for rationalism in our 'more is better society'.READ MORE >
Choking on Christian Authenticity: Some Theological Predicaments in Light of Pharmacology, Hollywood Film, and Post-Freudian Therapeutics
Chad says ::
Where in the article does it discuss Al Gore?READ MORE >
Choking on Christian Authenticity: Some Theological Predicaments in Light of Pharmacology, Hollywood Film, and Post-Freudian Therapeutics
Joey77 says ::
This was an interesting article. At first, however, I thought it was "just another" Christian article that seemed to be blaming the mentally ill of our society for being sick, and I wanted to retort by saying, "Would you put the blame on someone for . . .READ MORE >
Festival of Faith and Writing - A few reflections by Chris Keller
ckeller says ::
thank you for the editing, but come on, it's a blog ;-) we'll work on the booth!READ MORE >
An Interview with Lauren Winner
Joey77 says ::
Great interview! I agreed with most of what Lauren Winner had to say regarding marriage, procreation, and marital sex. However, I did disagree with her regarding the subject of masturbation. Masturbation isn't a selfish, self-gratifying act if you ar . . .READ MORE >