Paul R. Hoard

Jan 8, 2025 | theotherjournal.com | Paul R. Hoard

I am grateful for the opportunity to interact with Esther Meek’s thoughts around the significance of the other and the real, all of which are a gift to the school. In her essay, she invites us to consider the importance of the early “face-to-face encounter” between the mother and child, and she highlights the philosophical implications of these moments.

Jul 2, 2024 | theotherjournal.com | Kait Dugan |Paul R. Hoard

Over the past couple of decades, the board game industry has exploded. Game-related stores, cafes, bars, and conventions have been popping up all over the world, and the game industry produced about $18 billion in revenue for 2022, a number that is expected to steadily rise.[1] Although this growth can be analyzed from many different angles, I’m most interested in the psychology behind what happens when we play.

Apr 2, 2024 | theotherjournal.com | Paul R. Hoard |Billie Hoard

Finding the Other in the Question of GodIn Freud’s Last Session, a film adaptation of a play that is itself based on a book, the great thinkers Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis verbally spar about the nature and existence of God, yet the film is almost uninterested in deciding which of them is right.[1] Their disagreement over the existence of God forms the bones or skeleton of the picture but constitutes little of the meat.

May 31, 2023 | theotherjournal.com | Paul R. Hoard

Her eyes filled with terror at the sight of me, and she sped out of that South Carolina parking lot, tires screeching. I stood there holding my jumper cables and feeling confused, shocked, and ashamed. I’d forgotten to turn off the headlights on my old Honda. and my car battery was dead. I thought I was just asking for help from the only other person in the parking lot. I’d never before caused anyone as much fear as I saw in that Black woman’s eyes.