HOW TO SUBMIT A PIECE
Earth & Altar welcomes proposals for articles on the topics of theology, church history, liturgy and worship, preaching, the bible, the practice of ministry, theological engagement with popular culture, church administration, christian education, hymnody, poetry, creative writing, visual arts, and more. Abstracts of 150-200 words for proposed articles may be sent to submissions@earthandaltarmag.com. And don’t worry—even if you’re not sure how to put together an abstract, please still reach out to us and we’ll work with you to get your idea into abstract form. In the case of works of art (original pieces of poetry, hymnody, other music, creative writing, and the visual arts), you may send in a proposal for what you will create, the original piece itself, or a picture of the piece for consideration. Please remember that Earth & Altar aims to be accessible to the thoughtful non-specialist, so please keep that in mind both when proposing material and composing your submission. Content Editors will, at their discretion, engage with the submitters within a week of submission to prepare for publication. The Content Editor in question will give guidelines for manuscript composition and set a deadline for delivery of the manuscript to them which will be no less than three (3) weeks before the proposed date of publishing. Unless otherwise specified by the Content Editor, final manuscripts should be 1250-1500 words. The Editor-in-Chief may, in concert with the Editorial Board, invite submissions based around specific themes at certain periods.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: A JUST PEACE IN PALESTINE
Earth and Altar Magazine is calling for submissions that reflect upon the American-Christian conscience with regard to the profound loss of life and dignity in Israel-Palestine. As Presiding Bishop Michael Curry recently wrote to the Church, “We are called to a love that demands a lot from us. We are called to a love that tells the truth.”
What does love mean in a Palestinian context in which the Israeli government has occupied Palestinian land and has taken countless Palestinian lives over several decades? What are the demands of love in a world continually marred by the legacies of European anti-Semitism and Western imperial ideologies? How do we understand our obligation to love our neighbors and our enemies in the light of biblical witnesses to conquest and violence? What does love demand for U.S. citizens when American-led hegemony has laid the foundations for past and present conflicts in the region? How do we, in the multiplicity of hermeneutic and historical ideological contexts we speak from, tell the truth about ourselves, our neighbor, and the Spirit of God which pervades all?
We welcome essays that reflect upon such questions in relation to the ongoing violence and resistance in Israel-Palestine from a broad set of theoretical vantage points. While writing is to be predominantly theological in nature, we encourage writers to use their training spanning a range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, politics, anthropology, psychology, and literature.
Finally, writers may find it helpful to consult the following documents: the address of Presiding Bishop Curry to the American Episcopal Church, a series of letters from the Palestinian Episcopal Church to the broader Anglican Communion, and the address of Archbishops Naoum and Welby addressing the needs of the Palestinian Church.
For inquires and for the submission of pitches of no more than 250 words, please contact: submissions@earthandaltarmag.com.
The deadline for submissions is March 30th, 2024.
CONVOCATORIA DE PRESENTACIONES: PAZ JUSTA EN PALESTINA
La Revista Tierra & Altar solicita presentaciones que reflejen la conciencia cristiana estadounidense con respecto a la profunda pérdida de vidas y dignidad en Israel-Palestina. Como ha escrito recientemente el Obispo Presidente Michael Curry a la Iglesia: “Estamos llamados a un amor que exige mucho de nosotros. Estamos llamados a un amor que diga la verdad”.
¿Qué significa el amor en el contexto palestino en el que el gobierno israelí ha ocupado tierras palestinas y se ha cobrado innumerables vidas palestinas durante varias décadas? ¿Cuáles son las exigencias del amor en un mundo continuamente estropeado por los legados del antisemitismo europeo y las ideologías imperiales occidentales? ¿Cómo entendemos nuestra obligación de amar a nuestro prójimo y a nuestros enemigos a la luz de los testimonios bíblicos de la conquista y la violencia? ¿Qué exige el amor a los ciudadanos estadounidenses cuando la hegemonía liderada por Estados Unidos ha sentado las bases de conflictos pasados y presentes en la región? ¿Cómo podemos, en la multiplicidad de contextos hermenéuticos e ideológicos históricos desde los que hablamos, decir la verdad sobre nosotros mismos, nuestro prójimo y el Espíritu de Dios que lo impregna todo?
Damos la bienvenida a ensayos que reflexionen sobre estas cuestiones en relación con la violencia y la resistencia actuales en Israel-Palestina desde un amplio conjunto de puntos de vista teóricos. Si bien la escritura debe ser predominantemente de naturaleza teológica, alentamos a los escritores a utilizar su formación que abarca una variedad de disciplinas; incluyendo filosofía, historia, política, antropología, psicología y literatura.
Finalmente, los escritores pueden encontrar útil consultar los siguientes documentos: el discurso del Obispo Presidente Curry a la Iglesia Episcopal Norteamericana, una serie de cartas de la Iglesia Episcopal Palestina a la Comunión Anglicana en general, y el discurso de los Arzobispos Naoum y Welby dirigiéndose a la necesidades de la Iglesia palestina.
Para consultas y envío de solicitudes de no más de 250 palabras, comuníquese con: submissions@earthandaltarmag.com.
La fecha límite de presentación es el 30 de marzo de 2024.
OUR CAPITALIZATION PRACTICES
The question of properly and equitably identifying racial and ethnic identities in print has become an incredibly important conversation for publishers. A number of different possibilities have been put forward for how to engage in proper capitalization practices. The position taken, for instance, by the Associated Press is to capitalize Black and Indigenous but not to capitalize white. The argument here is that this practice draws attention to identifies traditionally marginalized in public discourse and also refers to people with broadly conceived shared identities while emphasizing that “White” carries baggage associated too often with white supremecist ideologies. The APA has suggested capitalizing all racial and ethnic identifiers, including White, Black, Native American, and Latino/a. While recognizing that capitalizing White has been associated with supremacist ideologies, this approach attempts to recognize that whiteness is indeed a racial identifier and put it on par with other such racial identifiers in order to require a kind of “coming to terms' with” whiteness and its distinctiveness, rather than perpetuating the idea that whiteness is a default or neutral position. Finally, Chicago style, which we follow at Earth & Altar, allows for terms to be either capitalized or left lowercase, so long as it is done consistently and universally (i.e, all such racial and ethnic identifiers are either capitalized or left lowercase). Those who favor all uppercase may do so for the same reasons as the APA suggests this practice, while those who favor all lowercase may want to indicate that while race and ethnicity are real and operative in the world, we should be careful about practices that lead to either essentialism or reductionism by drawing undue attention to these facets of human experience. In order to try to honor the ongoing conversation around this important issue, to recognize that it is not settled, and to try to remain consistent with our own style commitments, we will follow the Chicago practice broadly conceived. In other words, we will leave it up to our individual editors (and authors when there is a strong preference) whether to capitalize or leave lowercase racial and ethnic identifiers so long as this practice is consistently and universally employed within a piece. Again, though, we want to recognize that this is not a settled issue and there are arguments to be made for other practices. For that reason, we have provided links to various style guides as well as arguments and advocacy for different practices around capitalization.
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php
https://blog.ap.org/announcements/the-decision-to-capitalize-black
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/capitalizeblack/
https://cssp.org/2020/03/recognizing-race-in-language-why-we-capitalize-black-and-white/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/time-to-capitalize-blackand-white/613159/
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language/racial-ethnic-minorities