We stand at what could be the greatest divide in American history. We stand at what could be the greatest divide in American history. America has come from Native American genocid ...

It was quite a busy year for the policy team at Sojourners, and we can already hear the challenges and opportunities of 2009 calling for our attention. It was quite a busy year fo ...

She walks the trails until her ankles swell and her back pulsates with pain. She walks the trails until her ankles swell and her back pulsates with pain. Her abdomen, swollen with ...

Eight years ago, the United Nations proclaimed Dec. 18 as <a href="http://www.nnirr.org/">International Migrants Day</a>. Eight years ago, the United Nations ...

Months after <a href="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=action.ccir&amp;item=ccir_mult">the largest immigration enforcement raid in history</a>, the tiny community of Postville is ...

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Social location is vital to understanding how people come to their interpretations, and appropriations, of the Bible and its stories. Social location is vital to understanding how ...

In 2004, <a title="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.contents&amp;issue=Soj0804" href="../../../index.cfm?action=magazine.contents&amp;issue=Soj0804">Latino evange ...

Activists, evangelical Christians, and Catholic Workers have joined in a hunger strike in downtown Los Angeles to expose the plight of immigrants in the United States and to motivate 1 million peop ...

In 2004, several conservative Catholic bishops and a few megachurch pastors like Rick Warren issued their list of "non-negotiables," which were intended to be a voter guide for their followers. ...

In the months leading up to the election, the topic of immigration reform has disappeared from the presidential candidates' conversations. In the months leading up to the ele ...

About 20 years ago, Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon wrote a book provocatively titled <em>Resident Aliens</em>. About 20 years ago, Stanley Hauerwas and William ...

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<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> In recent days, colleagues have asked me to write about the near ...

The settlement house movement is the foundation of public welfare in the United States. The settlement house movement is the foundation of public welfare in the United States. Beg ...

<p>This past Sunday, Oct. 5, was <a title="http://www.worshipconnection.cokesbury.com/content.aspx?dyn=1635" href="http://www.worshipconnection.cokesbury.com/content.aspx?dyn=1635" ...

It's happened again. It's happened again. With the recent memory of traumatic raids in Postville, Iowa, and Laurel, Mississippi, still lingering, federal agents invaded ...

The soul of evangelical Christianity is under stress.</p> The soul of evangelical Christianity is under stress. A few weeks ago, there was the disturbing report on tor ...

<p align="left">This week is significant in the lives of the more than 40 million Hispanics in the United States in that it marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month. ...

The presidential tickets in this election on both sides of the aisle have lots of "personality;" some of the candidates have even been referred to as "rock stars." John McCain's campa ...

<p><a href="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=action.ccir&amp;item=ccir_mult"></a>Last year I lived in a Catholic Worker house that offers hospitality to immigrants without f ...

In a few weeks, I will make a life-changing journey. After 33 years of living in Northern Ireland, and for very good reasons, I am about to become an immigrant. In a few weeks, I ...

Wednesday's <em>New York Times</em> gives a shocking description of the death of Hiu Liu Ng, also known as Jason Ng. Cause of death? Wednesday's New York T ...

<p><a href="http://kosherfood.about.com/od/guidetokosherfoodlabels/ss/symbols.htm"></a>Kosher law forbids you from boiling a calf in its mother's milk. But how are human mother ...

<p><a href="http://kosherfood.about.com/od/guidetokosherfoodlabels/ss/symbols.htm"></a>Kosher law forbids you from boiling a calf in its mother's milk. But how are human mother ...

Catholic social teaching tells us the dignity of the human person is the foundation and measure of a moral society. If the U.S. Catholic social teaching tells us the dignity of th ...

Last week, I <a title="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/06/from-tomato-picker-to-neurosur.html" href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/06/from-tomato-picker-to-neurosur. ...

I was touched recently to hear <a href="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/dome/0609/top_story.cfm">Dr. I was touched recently to hear Dr. Alfredo Quinoñes-Hinojosa ...

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I have heard that the Chinese symbol for crisis means both&#160;danger and opportunity. I have heard that the Chinese symbol for crisis means both danger and opportunity. The ...

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced Friday that after a prolonged and often heated campaign, Burger King has agreed to award tomato pickers 1.5 cents per pound of tomatoes picked, the equi ...

Please check out this moving video shot and edited by our own on-the-ground correspondent, Sojourners Web assistant Matt Hildreth. Please check out this moving video shot and edit ...

<p>As a South African, it is a downright shame that brothers and sisters from other countries in Africa <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/05/zimbabweans-face-new-violence.html& ...

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<em>Sojourners </em>magazine scooped CBS's <em>60 Minutes </em>when <a title="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&amp;issue=soj0804&amp;article=08 ...

There was a raid at a meat-packing plant in <st1:place><st1:state>Postville, Iowa,</st1:state></st1:place> yesterday, in which about 300 people were detained. Please keep them in your p ...

<P>Thank God for <I>The Wall Street Journal</I> editorial board. Now that's a phrase I never imagined uttering. Thank God for The Wall Street Journal ...

The <A href="http://www.wecanstopthehate.org/">"Haters"</A> know how to use the Internet effectively, or at least that's what recent research by the <A href="http:/ ...

<p><P>A few of us around Sojourners have been reading award-winning Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat since she published her first novel Breath, Eyes, Memory in 1994. ...

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<P>The United States prides itself on being a country of laws. The United States prides itself on being a country of laws. There is the settled conviction that here citi ...

<p><P>The Hebrew Scriptures clearly call for the children of Israel to make room for the alien. The Israelites are reminded that they, too, were once aliens in a strange and distant land.</P> ...

<P dir=ltr>In Arizona it is clear that the immigration issue is <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/25/AR2007122500877.html">more than just a political d ...

<p><P>In the past year, political expediency, xenophobia, and extremism defeated reason, compromise, and reconciliation in the immigration debate. The level of animosity directed towards the immigr ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Our private contractors have sacrificed enough in Iraq. As the Iraq war moves to­ward its fifth ...

John G. VanDerWalker II I appreciate Sojourners’ attention to U.S. immigration policy (“The New Sanctuary Movement,” September-October 20 ...