Lighting the Way: A Review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
The Road1, with its impersonal depictions of cannibalism and murder in the aftermath of an unknown apocalypse, is one of the most spiritual novels written in recent years. The contrast may appear...
View ArticleStories of Restoration: An Interview with Tracy Howe
When she’s not traveling in Latin America, backpacking in Colorado, performing at U.S. universities or house concerts, blogging (check out Tracy’s blog on The Other Journal blog page), building her...
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Diminutive Disasters Of Calamaties, Of Innocence, Of Passing, and Of Insanity
Click on the image below (Of Insanity) to open Barry Krammes’s exhibit in a resizable browser. Artist’s Statement For the past thirty years, I have been interested in the sculptural process of...
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The Beatific Quest as Faith Formation in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia:...
Narratives are purposeful and meaningful. When we consider recorded events, even our own lives, I believe we must approach them as narrative. We must envision them as a story, long or short, with a...
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The Beautiful Creatures: Trees in the Biblical Story
In the beginning, there were no trees. There were no trees, for there was no rain to nourish them and no creature to tend them. In the beginning, there was the Voice. The Voice called the earth to...
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What’s Black and White and “Red” All Over?
One would have had to be living under the proverbial rock to have somehow missed what’s been happening in the Middle East as of late. But just in case that rock is your home, let’s get caught up to...
View ArticleEvil, Ethics, and the Imagination: An Interview with Richard Kearney, Part I
In this three-part interview, the illustrious Irish philosopher Richard Kearney explores the human experiences of evil. Part I of the interview considers theodicy and human responsibility for evil by...
View ArticleRecycled Images, Relational Aesthetics, and the Sound of Music
As Bruce Ellis Benson’s recent book Liturgy as a Way of Life reminds us, “in making art, we always start with something.”[1] To be an artist is not to create ex nihilo but to creatively reinterpret and...
View ArticleAutobiographical Memory and the Art of Storytelling and Narrative Identity: A...
According to Greek mythology, the cave of Hypnos can be found by those awaiting death on a poppy-lined mountainside in the underworld. The river Lethe trickles through the soporific cave. The Greeks...
View ArticleAdvent and the Future of Waiting
A few months back my wife and I were reconciling our shared calendar when she asked a simple question that struck to the heart of our social identity and the future of our small family. She turned to...
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