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Sojourners Magazine: March 2025

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When crisis follows crisis, soul work is essential.

Features

Illustration of a winter forest with birds flying or resting in trees.

So much of what passes for self-care is commodified. Here’s what we need instead.

by
Edgar Rivera Colón
Magazine
Features
Collage of images: American flag, outreaching hands, shadows of children, capitol building, and hand cuffs.

Immigrant churches are standing in sacred resistance against Trump’s “shock and awe” immigration policies. 

by
Ken Chitwood
Illustration of a bed where inmates are strapped down for death row.

Officially, I was a volunteer of the state — but I was intensely opposed to what Texas was preparing to do.

by
Bri-anne Swan

Voices

Voices
Mobilizing Hope
Illustration of people standing far apart with elongated shadows behind them.

We all could use a little reset right now.

Voices
From The Editors
J.S. Park is a hospital chaplain and the author of As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve.

An introduction to the March 2025 issue of Sojourners.

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary
Illustration of handprint with coronavirus in the middle of the palm.

Do we accept the “new normal”?

by
Céire Kealty
Illustration of shadowed outlines of diverse travelers in front of a red brick wall.

Lessons after ICE removed my neighbors from a Mississippi chicken plant.

by
William Browning
Voices
Columns
A glowing book on a table with letters bursting out of it and floating in the air.

Love, etymology, orality, and the mystery of God.

by
Rose Marie Berger
Illustration of hoards of people lining up to get into a city.

Can we welcome the stranger and honor our human limits at the same time?

by
Liuan Huska
Voices
Eyewitness
Afghan women embroider handkerchiefs at a workshop.

But that hasn’t stopped my work empowering Afghan women.

by
Humaira Rasuli

Vision

Vision
Culture
Will & Harper sitting in chairs in a field, with Will playing a harmonica.

Will & Harper reminds viewers that trans rights are about real relationships, not simply a divisive political issue.

by
Taj M. Smith
A still from the film Weekend where the characters are climbing and exploring a grounded plane.

Revisiting Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend — “closer to a cry” than a film.

by
Curtis Yee
Gwendolyn Brooks holding chin in one hand and looking down, Chicago (1972)

How Gwendolyn Brooks poetry helps me dream again.

by
Sarah James
Vision
Books
Album cover of Sam Fender's People Watching.

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

by
The Editors
Book cover of The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Her new book, The Serviceberry, offers us an alternative path: the gift economy.

by
Avery Davis Lamb
The Day God Saw Me as Black by D. Danyelle Thomas

D. Danyelle Thomas’ The Day God Saw Me as Black celebrates the God-given goodness of Black women and replaces oppressive theology with liberation.

by
Deirdre Jonese Austin
Vision
Poetry

A poem.

by
Yun Wang
Vision
Living The Word

March reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.

by
Dong Hyeon Jeong
Vision
H'rumphs

It’s the law.

by
Ed Spivey Jr.