Ethan Meyers is Sojourners’ online editorial assistant for 2025-26.
A native of Holland, Mich., Ethan grew up in Spanish-immersion school and began studying French during the COVID-19 pandemic. He graduated from Calvin University in 2025 with a bachelor’s degree in international relations. At Calvin, he devoted countless hours to the student newspaper, Chimes. Even though he now works on the editorial team, Ethan still considers himself a reporter at heart.
Outside of work, Ethan enjoys classic literature, cooking, and the outdoors. He enjoys both teaching and learning new languages, and is an amateur chess player who loves to nerd out about strategy games. Ethan is a proud fifth-generation oldest child.
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But God Was Not in the Sonic Boom
In 1 Kings 19, God appears to the prophet Elijah. At this point in the biblical story, Elijah is the last remaining prophet who follows God, and many in the nation of Israel have stopped listening.
As U.S. Blockade Squeezes Cuba, Christians Push Solidarity Over Sanctions
As Cuba continues to face severe blackouts, economic crisis, and political pressure, Christians on the island and their allies in the U.S. are working to save lives and advocate for Cuban freedom.
In recent months, the nation of Cuba has been experiencing blackouts so severe that journalists at the New York Times have mapped the effects in satellite photos taken from space. The island’s economy, which had been in crisis for several years, has all but come to a standstill since January’s U.S.-led capture of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, a key ally of the island’s government. Later that month, the Trump administration also renewed and hardened a longstanding comprehensive embargo on the island, citing “actions of the Government of Cuba directly threaten the safety, national security, and foreign policy of the United States.”
More so than ever, U.S. pressure on the island has made daily life difficult. Jorge González Núñez, president of the Movimiento Estudiantil Cristiano de Cuba, spoke to Sojourners in voice messages over the course of three days, originally in Spanish.
“We’ve had only two hours of electricity each day for a week, or more,” González Núñez said.
As Migration Flows Reverse, Faith Groups Confront the Fallout of U.S. Policy
Across Latin America, faith-based organizations have a long history of accompanying and serving migrants traveling northward. But as the U.S. grows increasingly aggressive in its immigration enforcement, these ministries find themselves serving migrants flowing south, away from the U.S.
Inside the Grief and Relief of Leaving a Denomination
As the Christian Reformed Church hardened its theology about sexuality, many of its congregations were forced to reevaluate their long-standing denominational ties. Here’s what happened next.
OF COURSE IT all started right around 2016.
That year, the Christian Reformed Church in North America’s synod—an annual meeting of representatives from across regional subdivisions of the denomination in the U.S. and Canada—commissioned a document known as the Human Sexuality Report with the stated goal to “articulate a foundation-laying biblical theology of sexuality” over the course of the next five years. One hot-button issue was same-sex relationships. Up until this point, the CRC had been operating under the guidance established at the synod of 1973, which was that while same-sex attraction shouldn’t be considered sinful, acting on that attraction was.
After Maduro, Venezuelan Christians Pray for End to U.S. Imperialism
After the U.S. military’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, faith leaders are processing deep feelings of conflict, both with Maduro and with the U.S. intervention.
Rev. Ricardo Corzo Moreno is a Presbyterian pastor living in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. Moreno’s apartment building is approximately one mile away from an air force base in La Carlota that was bombed in the attack. He described how shocked and terrified his neighborhood as bombs started dropping and planes flew at low elevation over their buildings.
“After everything ended ... it was a total silence. Nobody went out in the street; everyone stayed in their buildings. For the next 24 to 48 hours, Caracas became like an empty city,” Moreno said. “A lot of churches here in Caracas, they decided to cancel Sunday service because people were afraid that something would start happening in the population.”
God's Extraordinary Ordinariness
Amy Peeler writes about the charms of Ordinary Time.
BEFORE WRITING HER book of reflections on Ordinary Time, Amy Peeler said she “dreaded” this liturgical season. “[As someone] fed by excitement and change, this season seemed to offer little of either,” she writes. Fortunately, instead of asking Peeler to write about Advent or Lent for IVP’s Fullness of Time book series, editor Esau McCaulley assigned Peeler the longest, most often overlooked liturgical season.
I didn’t grow up in a church that utilized liturgy beyond the occasional recitation of the Apostles’ Creed, so perhaps I fit squarely in IVP’s target demographic for the series. “Christians of all traditions are finding a renewed appreciation for the church year,” McCaulley writes in the series preface. The goal of these books, he continues, is to teach Christians “how the church is forming them in the likeness of Christ through the church calendar.”
‘Lord of the Rings’ Doesn’t Mean What MAGA Thinks It Does
This Christmas, I’m looking forward to curling up on a snowy morning with one of my favorite stories: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Whether in book or film, Tolkien’s high fantasy remains politically relevant and holds a prescient message for the Advent season.
Trump Keeps Showing Us That He’s Not Pro-Life
Let’s take a quick trip back to the fall of 2016. Justin Bieber, Drake, and Twenty-One Pilots are topping the charts. All the cool kids are bottle-flipping. And almost every adult I know is falling in line to vote for Donald Trump. I’m from the western side of Michigan, and my home county went to Trump by almost 30 percentage points.
I was just starting to develop political opinions at that time, but it shocked me how so many people—who I knew cared deeply about their own moral lives—could countenance voting for a candidate who made a mockery of Christian values like forgiveness and marital fidelity.
Jesus Led Him to the Top of a Refrigerator to Protest SNAP Cuts
As the longest government shutdown in U.S. history draws to a close, much of the news cycle has centered on the struggles of 42 million Americans missing benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
While benefits remain delayed, many of those 42 million may have spent more than a week unsure of how to pay for groceries. It’s difficult to grasp such a large number. For those without direct connections to food insecurity, the issue can remain hypothetical and far off.
Terence Lester, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Love Beyond Walls, is used to serving those our political system forgets. Love Beyond Walls is a nonprofit focused on poverty and homelessness, based the Atlanta suburb of College Park, Ga. The organization has partnered with local school districts to convert unused classroom space into resource centers designed to make sure students in poverty can get their basic needs met at school. It also provides hygiene stations for people experiencing homelessness throughout the city.