Every Sojourners magazine is fact-checked. One of the last “facts” in this issue refers to Smokey Bear. But isn’t it Smokey the Bear? Nope. We checked. We still make mistakes, but we let you know, and we fix them. Fact-checking is essential to our editorial process. Why? We’ve made you an ethical (and, in our case, religious) promise. Rooted in a biblical perspective, we agree to provide transparency, accuracy, and fairness while not advancing false equivalencies. How do you think we do?
In our cover story, Christina Littlefield digs into simple practices to improve media literacy for everyone. She takes a look at the role outrage plays in media across the political spectrum, and how to counter it.
It’s also midterm elections season. Ken Chitwood reports on the care preachers take in a divided political era. Midterms allow for democracies to course-correct but rely on a citizenry with access to accurate reporting and fact-based commentary to do so well. We hope you find that here. Otherwise, it’ll just be us and the snakes. (Oh yeah, there are snakes.)
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