Activism

Julie Polter 12-01-2007

The prophetic voice of abolitionist Maria W. Stewart.

Richard Rohr 12-01-2007

Understanding the true presence of Christ helps us become elders, not just elderly.

Anna Almendrala 11-20-2007

While volunteering in a legal clinic in my sophomore year of college, interviewing people applying for political asylum in the U.S., I heard a lot of people describe how they had had to leave everything behind and flee into the jungle, carrying children on their backs.


I interviewed lots of people and read the personal statements of cases already filed, and all the stories were sickeningly similar. The [...]

Allison Johnson 11-20-2007

In the spirit of tradition and solidarity, the Sojourners interns once again traveled to the annual SOA Watch protest and vigil this past weekend to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas. Officially named the "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security [...]

Walter Brueggemann 11-01-2007

Rev. Billy and his "Church of Stop Shopping" preach the gospel of love, anti-consumerism, and radical neighborliness.

Aaron Graham 10-01-2007

New York Faith and Justice was inspired into being by Sojourners/Call to Renewal during their annual Pentecost Conference in 2006. It started with just a handful of committed Christians in New York who were focused on discovering how God was leading them to respond to the issue of poverty in their city.


As Becky Garrison reported last week, their mission is simple but profound: "Following [...]

Colin Mathewson 9-01-2007
Learning from the grassroots at the U.S. Social Forum.
Colin Mathewson 9-01-2007

More than 10,000 labor, environmental, and social justice activists from across the country converged on Atlanta in late June for the first U.S. Social Forum.

Judy Coode 8-01-2007
The activist connected the war machine with the abandonment of U.S. urban centers.

Through the Jubilee USA Congregations program, faith communities across the U.S.

Jim Wallis 8-01-2007

An eyewitness to massacre and genocide finds shame, hope, and possibility for a moral world.

Joanne O'Neill 7-01-2007

I had just returned from a mission trip organized by the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana's Office of Disaster Response when I read Jim Wallis' column for the April 2007 issue, "All Hands on Deck."

Kim Bobo 7-01-2007
Religious leaders are backing the Employee Free Choice Act.
Members of Reef Relief in Key West, Florida, dove down to the Sand Key reef to join in the national day of climate action held April 14 in the U.S.
Kim Szeto 7-01-2007

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth recently launched the Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative, starting with a focus on the genocide in Darfur.

Bill McKibben 7-01-2007

The fight against global warming will require a movement full of fire and prayer. That movement has begun...

James H. Cone 7-01-2007

Why the environmental movement and the racial justice movement need each other.

Laurel Mathewson 7-01-2007

1) Organize. If a presidential candidate is coming your way, ask him or her: How are we going to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050? What's your plan?

2) Organize.

What congregations can do to restore creation.

The Editors 6-01-2007
Christians step out against the war.