Who We Are
Chris Keller :: Editor-in-Chief, Co-Founder
Brian Munz :: Webmaster, Co-Founder, Senior Editor
Andrew David :: Managing Editor
Jon Stanley :: Examination/Theology Editor
Hannah Faith Notess: Imagination/Creative Writing Editor
Billy Daniel :: Perspective/Book, Film, & Music Review Editor
Mark Russell :: Praxis/Social Justice Editor
Jen Grabarczyk :: Creation/Art Editor
Heather Smith :: Creation/Art Editor
Greta Bergquist :: Blog Editor
Ben Suriano :: Assistant Examination/Theology Editor
Dan Rhodes :: Assistant Examination/Theology Editor
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 theme, and includes sections dedicated to:
- Examination :: articles, essays, and interviews
- Imagination :: creative nonfiction, personal essays, short stories, and poetry
- Creation :: art exhibits
- Perspective :: personal essays that center on an experience of literature, film, or music
- 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.
As Brian and Chris’s vision for The Other Journal continued to unfold, leading Christian thinkers, practitioners, and creative writers joined The Other Journal community. Today, the journal seeks to fill the gap between popular frill-based magazines and scholarly academic journals by providing a lively corner in cyberspace for the discerning reader to experience their faith as culturally relevant. Our goal is to provide readers with provocative, challenging, and insightful Christian writing on current social issues, political events, cultural trends, and pop phenomena.
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 addition to publishing the online journal, The Other Journal also releases books and runs the annual Film, Faith, and Justice festival, a film and lecture series featuring independent documentaries from the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival.
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.
CONTACT
To contact The Other Journal with general inquiries, please write to: info@theotherjournal.com
To contact The Other Journal with with submissions and questions related to submissions, please write to: submissions@theotherjournal.com
"I Write Because I Cannot Remember At All."
jasmine says ::
Wow... I am awestruck by this remarkable post. I love the way you weaved your various stories in with the truth you found through literature... as if the words themselves find breath in your life, as they were intended to. I agree... your writing is . . .READ MORE >
The Thing About Stories
jennw2ns says ::
I agree that that's what it sounds like I'm saying. I don't think that's what I really believe in full. I DO believe that God's glory is creation's glory, and also that God delights to do good to us and that we are more important to Him than we . . .READ MORE >
The Knowledge of God and Evil
jstanley says ::
Hi Gilman, I just don't know how productive it is to make apologetic cases for God's benevolence or malevolence based on one's broad assessment of the relative amount of goodness or evil in the world. Further, to even raise the question of why . . .READ MORE >
The Thing About Stories
jstanley says ::
Hi Jenn, Would it be fair to summarize your article as saying something like "the story is about God (and God's glorification) not creation (and creation's glorification)? If so, I want to resist it. It sounds so 'orthodox' on one level, but . . .READ MORE >
"I Write Because I Cannot Remember At All."
thedude says ::
Ashley, this is beautiful... as someone who is white it was a gift to hear about the Cuban, and Cuban-American experience of having "a soul long stained by dislocation and silence." Such homesickness indeed may embody, as you say of your father, a . . .READ MORE >
Cake and Eat It
jennw2ns says ::
I'm glad it resonated. I wasn't sure any of the last three posts actually made any sense, particularly this one. Actually, I feel that way most of the time I write here . . . ;-)READ MORE >
Cake and Eat It
davegrosser says ::
OK, Jenn, *that* was great. So simple, so obvious, so never-said. Thank you. I found that very helpful.READ MORE >
The Knowledge of God and Evil
jennw2ns says ::
Ahh--thank you, Gilman, for saying in so many fewer words what it was going to take me at least five more posts to kind-of say! ;-) Yes. You are right. I think that's kind of what I was saying indirectly in my next (story) post: we assume we're the . . .READ MORE >
The Thing About Stories
gilman says ::
Thoughts: God as author -- a complex metaphor with many ways to turn. Not all authors appear explicitly in their stories, though every author is present as the "voice" of the story. Dickens, for example, is intensely present in all his storie . . .READ MORE >
The Knowledge of God and Evil
gilman says ::
Very thought-provoking piece. Good work. If we entertain the possibility that God is a cosmic sadist, an “evil being who makes some other beings as toys and dreams up ways to torment them,” then we will at once be stuck trying to explain the vexi . . .READ MORE >
Tangled Alphabets: An Aesthetic of Language
bibledude says ::
Great review Jen! The images and how you described them really touched my heart and mind today. Very inspiring... thank you.READ MORE >
Christian anarchy?
gilman says ::
I think this is an exciting subject. All Christianities, including (notably) American ones, have tended to merge Caesar and God, state and faith, into a giant idol with a glowing head, to steal Bob Dylan's great phrase, with an American flag standi . . .READ MORE >
Christian anarchy?
gilman says ::
I think this is an exciting subject. All Christianities, including (notably) American ones, have tended to merge Caesar and God, state and faith, into a giant idol with a glowing head, to steal Bob Dylan's great phrase, with an American flag standi . . .READ MORE >
The Lie Factory
Becque says ::
It is so hard to be part of this world when you know that some (much?) of what we do helps to drive a knife into the heart of what gives us life and sustains us. In my heart I know that God wants me to love the sinner/marketer/advertiser/capitalist, . . .READ MORE >
Christian anarchy?
jstanley says ::
Jasmine, I appreciate your thoughts and the invitation into your process. I would be very curious to hear your thoughts on a previous TOJ article entitled "Anarchist Imperitives and Fundamental Change" by Michael Van Dyke. It would be good fodder f . . .READ MORE >