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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

And other terrifying Advent questions from a midwife.

by
Julie Dotterweich Gunby
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Features

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

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

by
Liuan Huska

Voices

Voices
Mobilizing Hope

So I went on a five-day silent retreat.

Voices
From The Editors

An introduction to the December 2024 issue of Sojourners.

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary

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

by
Chris Hedges

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

by
Stephen Schneck
Voices
Columns

Leaning into land tenancy, not “ownership.”

by
Rose Marie Berger

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
Voices
Eyewitness

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

by
Megan Gomez

Vision

Vision
Culture

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

by
Michael Woolf

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

by
Curtis Yee

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

by
The Editors
Vision
Books

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

by
Sarah James

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

by
Sergio Lopez

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