Everything is coming apart. Nothing works anymore. We move from one crisis to another so fast that the word has become a description of our whole way of life.
Columns
As this month's Sojourners goes to press, we face the threat of war with Iran. Fifty United States citizens have been held hostage in the U.S.
The birth that transformed the world came quietly upon us in the barren chill of a stable, and its meaning was not fully realized until the violent death-event on a cross 33 years later.
Addressing envelopes, running errands, attending civil disobedience trainings, doing radio interviews, sitting, worshiping, and sleeping on railroad tracks -- these activities and more crowded my time with the Rocky Flats Truth Force.
Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all ... Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:17, 21)
I was the first one awake in my household last Easter morning. With resurrection enthusiasm, I had decided to fix breakfast for the rest of the family. It was cold in our basement kitchen.
For Easter 1978 David McKeithen, a member of Sojourners Fellowship, wrote a musical which was shared at our Sunday morning worship.
For any church to begin to live a corporate life defined by the kingdom of God means that its patterns, activities, and ways of being will be fundamentally transformed and renewed.
There is a passage of scripture which helps us reflect on an important subject: economics. The passage, Acts 2, concerns the economy of Christian fellowship.
Not being of the world, Jesus' disciples are in the world as he was, to confront it with the love and truth it does not want to know.
"If I had been a journalist at the time of the crucifixion, I would have been hanging around Herod's palace talking to Pilate and disregarding [Jesus]."
A rather persistent pattern of criticism has emerged against Sojourners from a group of people suggesting that our commitment to the building of community signals a withdrawal from the world, that we are more concerned with an “alternative lifestyle” than with social justice, and that we are apolitical, or not political enough, or at least not political in the right ways.
One of Rosalyn Carter’s goals in her recent trip to Latin America was to improve relations with
President Carter’s energy policy, his first major domestic policy initiative, has received a rocky reception in the Congress.
It has occurred to me from time to time that there may be significant similarities between the views of secularist advocates of “lifeboat ethics” and the outlook of those fundamentalists who view themselves as inhabitants of “the late great planet Earth.”
The rhetoric of human rights and morality has dominated the first two months of the Carter Administration’s foreign policy.
As Sojourners has extensively reported, torture and other denials of basic human rights are spreading like a global epidemic.