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Sojourners Magazine: December 2024

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Great with child, Mary’s body begged for the birth of the Christ child. But can we?

Features

Illustration of a woman in the midst of a water birth; a midwife's hands are on the swollen pregnant body.

And other terrifying Advent questions from a midwife.

by
Julie Dotterweich Gunby
Magazine
Features
Members of the Armenian community protest a contentious deal that stands to displace residents and hand over a large section of the Armenian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, May 19, 2023.

How what’s happening in the Armenian community speaks to the broader struggle of living under Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem and beyond. 

by
Mae Elise Cannon, Christopher Huth
Two slices of wheat bread sitting on a blue cloth on top of a fence.

Most communion bread is made in a factory. How did the process lose the human touch?

by
Liuan Huska

Voices

Voices
Mobilizing Hope
Illustration of a woman kneeling in prayer, surrounded by a green light.

So I went on a five-day silent retreat.

Voices
From The Editors
Illustration of Ernesto Cardenal wearing a beret and holding up a book.

An introduction to the December 2024 issue of Sojourners.

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary
A mourner in the Israeli-occupied West Bank holds an image of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old American volunteer with December 2024 International Solidarity Movement who was killed by Israeli forces in Nablus on Sept. 6, 2024.

I covered war for a long time. I know, even if you do not, what comes next.

by
Chris Hedges
Eleven pastors with Mountain Gateway ministry in Nicaragua, arrested there in 2023 on false charges of money laundering, were released in September 2024.

First Daniel Ortega came for the Catholics. Now he’s after the Protestants.

by
Stephen Schneck
Voices
Columns
Illustration of a book that opens up into another world, and a girl is standing in front of this new world.

Applying “beginner’s mind” helped me with my mother’s cancer diagnosis. I want to approach the next four years the same way.

by
Liuan Huska
Roy M. Bird, the author’s grandfather (far right) attends the opening of airmail service to Magnolia, Ark., 1952.

Leaning into land tenancy, not “ownership.”

by
Rose Marie Berger
Voices
Eyewitness
People gather at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., after a 14-year-old student killed four people and injured at least nine more.

After the Apalachee High School shooting, a pastor asks what we can do.

by
Megan Gomez

Vision

Vision
Culture

Director Sean Wang’s Dìdi is a love letter to adolescence.

by
Curtis Yee
Cover of For Our Daughters, a documentary on the evangelical church protecting abusive men.

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

by
The Editors
Image of Inside Out 2 where Riley is sitting in front of a birthday cake with her parents by her side.

Insights from Despicable Me 4, IF, Inside Out 2, and Harold and the Purple Crayon.

by
Michael Woolf
Vision
Books
Photograph of a hand dipping into the ocean at sunrise.

“Rewilding” Christianity through new forms of outdoor Eucharistic life.

by
Sarah James
Cover of Strange Religion by Nijay K. Gupta.

In Strange Religion, Nijay K. Gupta explores how the early church was weird, dangerous, and compelling.

by
Sergio Lopez
Cover of I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin.

Jason Pargin’s I’m Starting To Worry About This Black Box of Doom is a parable of the dangers of the information age.

by
JR. Forasteros
Vision
Poetry

A poem.

by
Helen Mirkil
Vision
Living The Word

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

by
Raj Nadella
Vision
H'rumphs

Jesus did a lot when he was 33. Maybe I’ll do a little.

by
Jenna Barnett