Full disclosure must be made: Cheryl and Ralph Broetje once sent us a box of apples
after a visit to our office.
The Internet has made hate groups highly visible, completely anonymous, and available to a potentially limitless audience.
Millions of people died in the slave trade. African AIDS deaths will soon exceed those horrendous numbers. The future of the continent isn't all that's at stake.
A rag-tag movement of churches, development organizations, and trade unions, sprinkled with the fairy dust of celebrities like U2's Bono and Muhammed Ali, got Jubilee 2000 off the ground and running.
In the new millennium, faith will be known by action. We need to break through the individualistic and privatized approach to spirituality and reconnect with real community.
What's good for General Motors---and other megacorporations---isn't necessarily good for the rest of us.
From hip hop to Howard Thurman, From the well-known to the obscure, we did the reading for you (really, it was our pleasure)
Assistant editor Rose Marie Berger traveled to Bosnia and Kosovo in July as part of a pilgrimage led by Don McClanen, founder of an organization called Ministry of Money.
SOME THINGS come through planning. We planned to excerpt Ron Sider's forthcoming book Just Generosity, and for Jim Wallis to interview Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson.
Excerpt from statement on Kosovo by Sojourners and other religious leaders
Technology, of course, is a mixed blessing. But especially for those working in difficult and far-flung situations, e-mail can be vital for much more than relaying the latest office humor.
Our lead CultureWatch piece is a profile of writer Anne Lamott, who some would consider, at least on sight, to be an unlikely evangelist.
Hurricane Mitch already spurred us to publish one commentary ("A Mature Compassion," by Marvin Rees, January-February 1999).
In our November-December 1998 issue, the caption for the photo on page 31 was
incorrect.
Nuclear abolition on the cover of Sojourners? Isn't that awfully retro, a flashback to the same-old same-old? A high-ranking military officer in full uniform on the cover of Sojourners?
The terrorist bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the subsequent U.S.
A basic principle of organizing is that a group of people with a common purpose can accomplish more than a single individual.
This issue has the final "Signs & Wonders" column from contributing editor Joyce Hollyday.
WE SEEK OUT most of our articles-solicit them from authors or write them ourselves. Once in a while an article is sent in that fits both our plans and our limited space.
Several people from Sojourners attended the October 1997 Promise Keepers' "Stand in the Gap" gathering here in Washington, D.C.
During the early '70s, some of the people involved with the founding of Sojourners Community and magazine went on a road trip from Chicago (where the group was based at that point) to Washington, D.C.
Once we had gone beyond Left and Right, liberal and conservative, East and West, nothing remained but to go beyond the false categories of taste and decency.
So we bought advertising space from NAS
Miriam Therese Winter is a Catholic sister teaching in a Protestant seminary.
Sometimes (well, occasionally) the words and image that we put on our cover come together quickly, seemingly with little effort on our part.
Following President Clinton's signing of the federal "welfare reform" legislation last August, three top administration officials resigned in protest.
Several of our readers have contacted us asking for the date and
circumstances of Henri Nouwen's death.
Our cover story is a tribute to Jean Sindab, a tireless worker for peace and justice and a joy-filled and fun-loving woman who died a year ago this month of cancer (see "For an Exemplary Comrade," by
When
a beloved person dies abruptly, first the bad news flies, short
and rending.
When a beloved person dies abruptly, first the bad news flies, short and rending.
At home, the best-known of
Sojourners' Washington, D.C.-based ministries is the
Sojourners Neighborhood Center, where Barb Tamialis has
served as executive director and
Faith and Work
The National Interfaith Committee for
Worker Justice wants to promote an understanding of a
spirituality of labor and leisure through its Faith and
In what is surely a first for Sojourners, this issue prominently features the words and thoughts of not just one, but two U.S.
Washington, D.C., is a town with more than
its share of vigils, marches, and demonstrations.
Washington, D.C., is a town with more than its share of vigils, marches, and demonstrations.
SEVERAL OF the artists who wrote for our forum on the creative vocation touched on the fact that art, like faith, is hard work as well as sweet inspiration.
OUR COVER ARTICLE, "Is Marriage Obsolete?," by Elizabeth
McAlister, has its origins in one of those "highway"
conversations, where you dig into the stuff of life while rolling
over the interst
OUR COVER ARTICLE, "Is Marriage Obsolete?," by Elizabeth McAlister, has its origins in one of those "highway" conversations, where you dig into the stuff of life while rolling over the interstate.
THE AUTHORS OF OUR cover article, "Can We Talk?," Andrea Ayvazian and Beverly Daniel Tatum, have worked together as anti-racism trainers and consultants since 1988, when an anti-racism agency matched
You can get so used to seeing something that you forget to question why it is there. This is often the case with the role of money in the American political system.
A requirement for working at Sojourners is learning how to survive
"multitasking." (Other requirements are learning how
to thrive on coffee of dubious quality and being able to open
the office
A requirement for working at Sojourners is learning how to survive "multitasking." (Other requirements are learning how to thrive on coffee of dubious quality and being able to open the office refrige
Both the consistent life ethic and biblical feminism are foundational principles for Sojourners.
What do you do when viciously expressed political views begin to drown out the good news?
When in doubt, have a party. Our editor, Jim Wallis, spent October on the road doing a promotional tour for his new book, The Soul of Politics.
An ad hoc group of Sojourners staffers in their 20s spent many long afternoon meetings brainstorming, arguing, shuffling through essays, and wrangling toward consensus to produce our cover feature on
Every so often, movements and communities, churches and societies (and individuals), need to pause and assess who they are and how to move forward. Hard questions must be asked.
