Sojourners Magazine: April 2025
A conversation with Barbara Brown Taylor on finding balance and the power of resurrection.
Features
A conversation about finding balance and the power of resurrection.
We promise, we’re not talking about The Passion of the Christ.
Voices
Keep paying attention to the downstream effects of the Trump administration’s deadly budget cuts.
You can’t protect the climate by yourself — that has to be a global project.
Learning to be emotionally available will be some of the deepest and most spiritual work I will do.
Vision
Like Jesus, Naomi, Ruth, and Moses, I’m learning a lot from the road.
Phil Connors was forced to relive Feb. 2 on an endless loop. But the movie’s message is more hopeful than a recurring nightmare.
Allowing ourselves to be surprised by improbable victories is part of life’s joy — even when those victories are accompanied by predictable losses.
Three culture recommendations from our editors.
In Everything Must Go, Dorian Lynskey chronicles humanity’s unending preoccupation with the end of the world.
In Barons, Austin Frerick explains that solutions will require restructuring who has power.
A poem.
April reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.
Bulk batteries and other sundries in my go bag inspired by the “Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids.”
When Sermons Go Viral
A close exegesis of Bishop Mariann Budde’s infamous message.
Are ‘Exvangelicals’ Making It Harder to Defeat Christian Nationalism?
It’s easy to forget that white evangelicals aren’t the only ones driving the march toward government takeover — and destruction.