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Sojourners Magazine: April 2023

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Wrestling with the complicated legacy of Christians and international adoption.

Features

A collage of illustrations and photos. Among them include a mother with her face blurred out as she holds her child. Another picture shows a toddler covered in a white silhouette as they stand outside. There is art of a world map and baby bottle as well.

Birth families and cultures are at the center of an emerging theology of family.

by
Rebecca Randall
Magazine
Features
Two pages with frayed edges are placed side to side. The left page depicts a woman plowing in a field, but the tool has been replaced by a partial 100-dollar bill. The right page shows a woman on a horse with a man following her and carrying a pitchfork.

God's vision for society, as spelled out in the biblical story, is about thriving — not just surviving.

by
Edith Rasell
An illustration of four anthropomorphic representations of human revolutions. From left to right, a blue man is digging. A tan woman is holding a vase. An orange figure has a mechanical gear for a head. A man is wearing a suit with smokestacks for a head.

“The Earth can't afford more black belts in shopping and using things up.”

by
Larry Rasmussen

Voices

Voices
Grain of Salt
An illustration of Earth with red continents and pink seas. Jagged yellow and blue lines soar around and above the Earth, pointing in many directions.

How the “steady-state economics” movement is challenging the gospel of unlimited expansion.

by Jim Rice
Voices
From The Editors
An illustration of a woman named Sofika Zielyk. She has short blonde hair with sideswept bangs is wearing a white dress that has intricate red patterning and loose sleeves. A yellow circle is behind her with red flowers around the circumference.

Scripture's view of a God-centered economy is at odds with the competitive system of acquisition and consumption known as capitalism.

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary
A cartoon illustration of a rowhome building with legs, representing rental enterprises. It has a hand attached from the side that grabs people. Other people are walking away with luggage in hand.

Churches beware: Big bucks are funding bad state-level homelessness policy.

by
Eric Tars
A cartoon-style mural of women portrayed as a rainbow of elongated silhouettes, who are marching in a procession with books in hand.

2023 marks 100 years of the Equal Rights Amendment. It's still in legal limbo — and Christians can help bring it to life. 

by
Allyson McKinney Timm
Voices
Columns
A close-up of the ignited blue flame of a gas cooktop.

The fossil fuel industry doesn't want you to know about alternatives to gas stoves.

by
Bill McKibben
A painting of hands with various skin tones reaching up to a heart swirling with purple and yellow brush strokes.

Abundance is less about how much we have and more about how much we share.

by
Liuan Huska
Voices
Eyewitness
A Ukrainian woman and girl are sitting together as they paint an Easter egg.

‘It's beautiful that what is celebrated in the church is in symphony with what people see around themselves.’

by
Pavlo Smytsnyuk

Vision

Vision
Culture
A woman with brown curly hair and a cardigan is sitting on a couch and holding her baby, who has dark hair and wears a white longsleeve footie onesie. Piles of boxes, baby supplies, and furniture surround her on all sides.

When the things of the past crowd out the present, how do we let go and hold on to what matters most?

by
Josina Guess
A group of smiling men and women stand and sit around a wooden table that has several buckets of fruit spread across the top.

If we're serious about fighting climate change by rebuilding soil carbon, we have to address the colonialist systems in which we live.

by
Liz Cooledge Jenkins
A photo of actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi as fictional journalist Arezoo Ramimi in the film 'Holy Spider.' She is cast against a red flag in the background and staring just off camera at something.

The Spider Killings happened more than 20 years ago, but the attitudes that enabled those murders remain frighteningly prevalent.

by
Abby Olcese
Vision
Books
The poetry book 'Divination with a Human Heart Attached' rests over an orange background. The cover depicts a human eye peering through the middle of a torn page, which is cut in the shape of a bird.

Emily Stoddard's Divination with a Human Heart Attached looks for God throughout nature and from within.

by
Laura Traverse
A group of Mennonite women are standing and sitting in a barn filled with crates and hay bales in the film 'Women Talking.'

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

by
The Editors
The book 'Sensual Faith' is cast over a light purple background, hovering in the air. The cover features a painted illustration of the lower half of a woman's face.

Lyvonne Briggs' Sensual Faith brings our bodies into the light of God.

by
Deirdre Jonese Austin
Vision
Poetry

A poem.

by
Charles R. Strietelmeier
Vision
Living The Word

April reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A

by
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
Vision
H'rumphs

You'll need 100 percent real wild honey. Only the best will do for our Lord.

by
Jenna Barnett