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
Hell: The Nemesis of Hope?
NikA says ::
Thanks for reading! There is an updated/revised version of this article in Brad Jersak's book Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hell, Hope, and the New Jerusalem (Wipf and Stock, 2009)READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
ByGrace says ::
Sorry for posting this twice - I stuck it in the wrong place above the first time. drhodes, of course that is a classic text which "all along belonging" folks turn to. As do Univeralists. I'm certainly not suggesting that you are a Universalist . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
ByGrace says ::
drhodes, of course that is a classic text which "all along belonging" folks turn to. As do Univeralists. I'm certainly not suggesting that you are a Universalist, for I don't know that you are. And many (most?) of the "all along" crowd would . . .READ MORE >
Hell: The Nemesis of Hope?
Phule77 says ::
Hrm. I wish that there was an edit function, you do deal with some of this in footnote 32.READ MORE >
Hell: The Nemesis of Hope?
Phule77 says ::
Hi. I'm not sure if you're aware, but this article was referenced in the footnotes of Brian McLaren's "A New Kind of Christianity" (footnote 1, chapter 10). So this page is likely to start getting traffic after nearly a year. A number of issu . . .READ MORE >
Does Science Cause Atheism?
natewoodwardmusic says ::
Larry, I always appreciate your writing. I'm completely on board with you. As someone who has relationships with Christians more conservatively oriented (and more suspicious of science), I would wish you would refrain from statements like your . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
drhodes says ::
jking, you might do well to notice that the paragraph in which the sentence fragment you cite below appears begins by saying "For God so loved the world..." I would think that this seems to imply something quite akin to all-belonging as an active p . . .READ MORE >
Highlights from the J Series
gilman says ::
Very thoughtful, and I will try to listen to the Archbishop. Right here I'm just putting in a shameless plug for one of the most beautiful and unusual of groups trying to create understanding between Israelis and Palestinians: "Combatants for Peac . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
ByGrace says ::
Interesting article, Jon. But challenging the historic biblical understanding of hell may be getting a bit far afield from the original discussion, unless you assume that the "gospel of all along belonging" means that you are a Universalist by vir . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
jstanley says ::
I've been enjoying this conversation very much but feel that it could use some 'opening up' so that it doesn't trail off into ad homnem argumentation (which really isn't argumentation at all). One way to do this is by drawing in another text tha . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
ByGrace says ::
Excellent question, jking. I'd love to see a response to this. That passage sure seems to indicate that the default condition is condemnation, not acceptance.READ MORE >
O God, Where Art Thou? A Review of A Serious Man
jtotten says ::
The main reason I didn't want to discuss sin and consequences is because I didn't want to spoil the ending to the film. When it comes down to it, absolutely nothing Larry does is good. All of his trying is motivated by cowardice and his life is rid . . .READ MORE >
Friend of the Opposing Views
jennw2ns says ::
Thanks for reading and commenting. Yeah, I have definitely thought those thoughts. And I think that there is some merit to them. I also think, though, that that Relationship that marriage points to is one of the most unequal there is--God Himself sac . . .READ MORE >
O God, Where Art Thou? A Review of A Serious Man
rwsmoore says ::
nice work John. Good thoughts on a good movie. One part I was intrigued by that you didn't touch upon was the link between the morality of our actions and the effect they have in the world. The closing scene of him changing the grade & getting t . . .READ MORE >
Friend of the Opposing Views
jfo1966 says ::
I'm trying to think well, and because of an atheist friend, I doubt more, and have deeper faith. So, my comment is pretty simple: I wonder if Ockam's razor is of help: if a business relationship cannot in any way touch the depth, breadth of a relat . . .READ MORE >