Is it possible to create a new economy in the hood that would create jobs, lower energy costs, reduce the carbon footprint of an urban neighborhood, and allow neighbors to get to know one another a ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> The economy and the nation are at a crossroads. Unemployment, po ...

Hey, want to celebrate your love of your honey *and* your love of God's creation? Hey, want to celebrate your love of your honey *and* your love of God's creation? Eatin ...

That U.S. megaphone of amazing grace, Shane Claiborne, was recently moved to tears after witnessing a youth gathering in Australia. That U.S. megaphone of amazing grace, Shane Cla ...

Blessings of shalom for 2009! I have just come back from a four week visit to Zimbabwe. Blessings of shalom for 2009! I have just come back from a four week visit to Zimbabwe. As ...

As the third largest fast-food chain in the world adds its name to a <a href="http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=1346">growing list of giants to deliver wage increases and working conditi ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>"Consumption" isn't a bad word. Even as we watch the excesses of the consumer eco ...

My wife and I were sitting watching the election returns come in on CNN. She was 'chatting' online with some of her friends. My wife and I were sitting watching the ele ...

I confess, <a href="http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=2513">it feels good to win.</a> It is easy to slip into the trap of feeling as if we have vanquished the oppressor and slain ...

Last Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Gregory A. Last Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Gregory A. Presnell struck down the City of Orlando's "Large Group Feeding Ordin ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Times are hard. I work at a homeless shelter for single men wit ...

Danny Duncan Collum When we separate pleasure from responsibility, we defy nature at our own risk. "It is ...

Steve Thorngate Book review: From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again, by Debbie Blue. A wise s ...

Laurel A. Dykstra Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A. Wind across the quay-side / Grit in ...

Elizabeth Palmberg The dramatic rise in world food prices has pushed millions into poverty. Here's a look at 10 factors--from agrofue ...

Tony P. Hall Addressing the food crisis is a matter of political and spiritual will. The price of everything h ...

Frances Moore Lappe Progress on food security issues will only come when we begin to ask the right question and challenge the myths that t ...

Rose Marie Berger Alexis Vaughan “Without corn there is no country” is the slogan tens ...

Marv Baldwin A Picture of the Kingdom A Picture of the Kingdom Thank you for your recent article “Growing ...

Molly Marsh Race Matters True to Our Native Land, edited by Brian Blount, describes itself as the first African-American commentary on the ...

Ted Parks A black-and-white movie about the bleakness of life in Watts, California—shot for $10,000 about 30 years ago and never intended ...

Cynthia J. Strickland Laurel Rae Mathewson's article "Lord, What Shall I Eat? How Much Should I Weigh?" (July 2007) is a go ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez Poor Diet. In April, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski en ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez Finally, researchers have harnessed the fruit of the ...

Laurel Rae Mathewson A reflection on healing our relationship with food. Mireille Guiliano begins her book ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez The management of the Smithfield Foods pork processin ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez Legal Aid. Dionisio Díaz García, a Christian labor la ...

Jean B. Nilson Congratulations to Sojourners! Again you are setting the agenda for believing and acting Christians. ...

Emily McGowin When I received the May issue on “food and how we get it,” I confess I was skeptical as to its value. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Space in al Qaeda? Consider the lowly broccoli, pictured here actual size so that we can discuss ...

Danny Duncan Collum 'You deserve a break today' can be a pretty appealing proposition. In his landma ...

Julie Polter Good food is much more than a matter of taste. My mother was a Depression baby in rural North Car ...

Cathleen Hockman-Wert Our long-distance food system provides choice - but at what cost? When global food short ...

Cathy C. Campbell “Give us this day our daily bread.” The simplicity of the prayer that Jesus gave us can distract us from its wisdom and ...

om Philpott In a neglected neighbourhood, kids are growing produce and raising a community. Wander into Brookl ...

Ryan Beiler Why scavenge? You get a lot of really good food that's really, really free. “What is this—som ...

Molly Marsh An interview with food activists Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry. Every movement needs its revolutiona ...

Steve Thorngate At St. Olaf, students learn to reap what they sow. Day Burtness and Dan Borek hoped to start a ...

Celeste Kennel-Shank How consumers and farm workers together can make a better meal. Bumper stickers found in ...

Katie Chilton Driving east on Jackson Street one morning, only a couple of blocks from the bungalow on Abe Street where a few years ag ...

Peter Henriot With 86 percent of the country below the poverty line, the southern African nation of Zambia seems an unlikely candidate to ...

Rose Marie Berger Kentucky farmer and essayist Wendell Berry talks about what makes people happy. ...

Rose Marie Berger Sojourners associate editor Rose Marie Berger and photographer Ryan Beiler spent a Sunday afternoon in February with Wen ...

David Batstone Gluttony takes a toll on the interior life. The Seven Deadly Sins of classic moral theology s ...

Rose Marie Berger Susannah Hunter Chickens have evidently found a soft place in the hea ...

Carey Burkett For quite a few winters now, I have watched a great joy of mine turn slowly into sadness: No one writes letters anymore, a ...

Carey Burkett "No thanks, it makes me sick." "Let’s see, if I leave the milk out of these rolls Sheila can eat them ...

Carey Burkett Someday when I see the sale card announcing "12 Lemons for a Dollar" at the grocery store, I’m going to bu ...

Carey Burkett The loaves and fishes in the Bible story of the "feeding of the five thousand" (a major sandwich-making operation) ...

Carey Burkett Yesterday I learned that a friend will be moving far away. And my thoughts have turned to planning a good-bye party, ...