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Catherine Woodiwiss

Catherine Woodiwiss, Associate Web Editor, is interested in civic understandings of justice and grace, the messy intersection of faith and politics, and disrupting assumptions about all the above. Catherine comes to Sojourners from the Center for American Progress, where she wrote on values and voting, climate change, clean energy, poverty, economic inequality, and religion in the 2012 presidential elections.

Previous to her work with CAP, Catherine started up the Washington, D.C.-based office for an international development NGO, where she led partnership strategy with embassies, foundations, and the for-profit sector, and designed programs for field projects in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Central Asia. Catherine has also worked with the Faith & Politics Institute to promote bipartisan leadership, interfaith dialogue, and racial reconciliation among members of Congress and Hill staff.

Catherine graduated from Colby College with a bachelor’s degree in international studies and anthropology. Abiding likes include porch jams, getting grubby in nature, and futbol. Abiding dislikes are happy hours, small talk, abuses of power, and football.

She is a reluctant Twitter user at @chwoodiwiss.

Blog Posts by Catherine Woodiwiss

Posted by Catherine Woodiwiss, Brandon Hook 23 hours 41 min ago
Days before President Barack Obama's high-profile speech on drones and U.S. counterterrorism efforts, Sojourners sat down with investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill to take an inside...
Posted by Catherine Woodiwiss 1 week 1 day ago
A movement of lay advocates speaking out against sexual violence is gaining steam in the faith communities. But are similar efforts happening inside church doors?When it comes to leading...
Posted by Catherine Woodiwiss 2 weeks 6 days ago
Polley’s theater family has kept a rumor for years that Sarah’s dad may not be her biological father. Nagged by persistent jokes about her striking non-resemblance to the rest of the family, and...
Posted by Catherine Woodiwiss 3 weeks 1 day ago
Though the church remains stuck in a culture of silence on sexual abuse, advocates are steadily building the platforms for individual voices to change the narrative. The depth of reconciliation that...
Posted by Catherine Woodiwiss 4 weeks 6 days ago
Most of us are too familiar with this story: an Upper Midwestern Baptist minister claims that “God made Christianity to have a masculine feel [and] ordained for the church a masculine...

Articles by Catherine Woodiwiss

Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill shines a light on U.S. covert wars.