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Sojourners Magazine: June 2025

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Advice from a pastor turned pro-democracy organizer.

Features

Humans working together to take apart a giant boulder into pieces to carry it up a mountain.

Advice for overwhelmed Christians from Jarvis Williams, a pastor turned pro-democracy organizer.

by
Betsy Shirley
Magazine
Features
Collage of divorce papers, stained-glass windows, and the side profiles of a woman and a man.

Why I went from having contempt for this legal process to believing it is a lifesaver.

by
Melissa A. Martin
Illustration of a woman with her hands on her hips with another woman sitting in her heart space, meditating and radiating calm.

A spiritual elder offers eight reminders to help you stay rooted as you follow your call.

by
Wesley Granberg-Michaelson

Voices

Voices
Tell It Slant
Illustration of a confederate statue being taken apart and lifted.

What does that require of me today?

by Julie Polter
Voices
From The Editors
Jovita Idar was a Mexican American journalist, teacher, suffragist, and the first president of La Liga Femenil Mexicanista.

An introduction to the June 2025 issue of Sojourners.

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary
Illustration of several hands, all different colors from green to blue to purple, circled around and caressing a globe.

For self-interested nations, the good road of Jesus can be a terrible way to run a society.

by
Amar D. Peterman
Poster saying "Keep Your Hands Off Medicaid!!" at a protest.

If you do not have your own Medicaid story to tell your representatives, you can borrow mine.

by
Shannon Dingle
Voices
Columns
Image of solar panel in the desert.

We stand some chance of limiting the damage from the climate crisis. Will Christians play a part?

by
Bill McKibben
A. man pulling what looks like a curtain, bringing in an image of a calm beach scene over a stormy scene.

Discernment may help us cultivate resilience.

by
José Humphreys III
Voices
Eyewitness
A mural by Michelle Angela Ortiz on the wall of the Mixteca Organization, founded in 2000 in Brooklyn, N.Y., by and for immigrant families.

“I don’t have to push my team to take care of others, but I have to push them to take care of themselves.”

by
Lorena Kourousias

Vision

Vision
Culture
Palestinian film director Basel Adra lays with his camera in his homeland, the Israeli-occupied region of Masafer Yatta.

Sometimes it takes a sprout, not a sledgehammer.

by
Josina Guess
Sagrada Família Basilica, Barcelona, Spain

A work in progress can still be a thing of majesty.

by
Greta Lapp Klassen
Harry Powell, played by actor Robert Mitchum, with his hands on a fence, showing LOVE tattooed on his knuckles.

Why the 1955 film The Night of the Hunter has only grown in influence during the last 70 years.

by
Abby Olcese
Vision
Books
The World After Gaza: A History, by Pankaj Mishra

As a child, Pankaj Mishra, author of The World After Gaza, admired Israel’s leaders. A trip to the West Bank began to change his mind.

by
Renée Darline Roden
Book cover of Lower Than the Angels by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

by
The Editors
The Beautiful Something Else, by Ash Van Otterloo

Ash Van Otterloo’s novel reminded me, an agnostic person, of the reign of God.

by
Oisín Rowe
Vision
Poetry

A poem.

by
Shannon Lise
Vision
Living The Word

June reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.

by
Dong Hyeon Jeong
Vision
H'rumphs

(But this article does use the term “Gulf of America.”)

by
Ed Spivey Jr.