No, nothing,
she says, that is not God’s, and we approach
a crow ripping the entrails
of a truck-crushed fox, and the crow flees
Poetry
Jesse Nathan 9-01-2010
Priscilla Atkins 8-01-2010
The hospital chaplain who sits in the room of a sick child
in Chicago and brings the child to God—not with words
but by her quiet presence.
Kate Henley Averett 6-08-2010
I've always longed to see the world through a poet's eyes -- to see the magical in the everyday and to be able to weave words in such a way as to convey that magic to others.
Jeannie Choi 5-11-2010
Sojourners magazine was recently recognized as the best general interest magazine by two leading religious press organizations for the second str
Jennifer Svetlik 3-09-2010
As a Sojourners intern last year, I, along with my community-mates, had the opportunity to request speakers to invite to address us during weekly seminars. Peace activist and poet Fr. Daniel Berrigan was on the top of my list.
Robert Hirschfield 3-01-2010
Poet Meena Alexander and the shifting terrain of the migrant experience.
Mary Anne Reese 3-01-2010
Alb: A white liturgical tunic worn as prayer for a heart protected from all stain and washed in the Blood of the Lamb.
Richard Hoffman 2-01-2010
Because I lay on my back as a boy in the grass of the small yard behind our house watching clouds move and become faces, mostly,
Jeannie Choi, David Denny 1-01-2010
David Denny teaches English at De Anza College in Cupertino, California.
David Denny 1-01-2010
Of all the saints, my Anthony,
I love you best. For you did
what I long to do: you walked away
from a life of comfort and ease,
Eric Sapp 12-21-2009
'Twas a week before Christmas, and all through my city
Politicians were scrambl'n, it wasn't very pretty.
Health care and climate were up in the air,
Politicians were scrambl'n, it wasn't very pretty.
Health care and climate were up in the air,
Scott Cairns 12-01-2009
This is the Month, and this the happy morn
Wherein the Son of Heav’ns eternal King,
Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born,
Bart Campolo 10-27-2009
It is Sunday night, and I am suddenly awake at the crack of too-close gunfire.
John Gosslee 9-01-2009
The ram’s horn bellowed.
Fused with snapped spears and hatchet heads
nicked shields covered the field,
Brian McLaren 8-24-2009
Thomas Friedman, learning from an experience on safari in Botswana, gets it right in his <
Lisa Sharon Harper 8-18-2009
I recently wrote and performed a spoken-word poem for the Transformational Development (TD) Conference at Eastern University, co-sponsored by Eastern and Food for the Hungry.
Nancy White 8-01-2009
that light kept me a year in its grip first
my feet caught fire then my blood
we moved at the edge of endlessness
headless handless mouthless mind-