The Common Good

Beau Underwood

Beau Underwood serves as the Campaigns Manager for Sojourners. In this role he helps to create and implement the organization’s issue campaigns, manages online advocacy, and builds relationships with key partners and constituencies.

A graduate of Eureka College and the University of Chicago, Beau is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). While his graduate studies in religion and public policy make him a bad dinner companion, the work of Sojourners to engage these impolite topics has long inspired him.

Around more polite company, Beau is likely to be talking about his beloved Chicago White Sox, discussing the latest book he’s read, or offering the sort of bad pun you’d expect a pastor to make.

Blog Posts by Beau Underwood

Sierra Club Endorses Immigration Reform
Posted by Ivone Guillen, Beau Underwood 3 weeks 2 days ago
If Congress passes immigration reform, much of the credit will be given to the broad and diverse voices that have lined up in support of fixing our nation’s broken immigration system. Both the labor...
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Where Idolatry Rages, Prophets Speak Out
Posted by Beau Underwood 5 weeks 2 days ago
Guns are dangerous idols. While mass shootings are happening at an alarming rate and an epidemic of gun violence plagues our nation’s cities, our society’s fanatical devotion to weapons prevents us...
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The Budget Battles are Back
Posted by Beau Underwood 6 weeks 1 day ago
While immigration and gun violence issues are capturing most of the week's headlines, the budget battles have re-emerged in Washington, D.C. Last month House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and...
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The Missing Figurine in Your Nativity Scene
Posted by Beau Underwood 23 weeks 2 days ago
In the church where I grew up, the first Sunday in Advent was dubbed the “hanging of the greens.” On that special Sunday, we sang carols in the decorated sanctuary, all culminating in the children’s...
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The Power of Christmas
Posted by Beau Underwood 23 weeks 6 days ago
“Faith is recognizing that if at Christmas Jesus became like us, it was so we might become more like him,” wrote the well-known preacher and activist William Sloan Coffin. He goes on to add, “We know...
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