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Sojourners Magazine: January 2020

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“What I thought was beautification was actually a form of erasing myself—replacing my dark brown hair, my brown skin, my brown eyes, and my flat nose with white features. Over time, I recognized that this was both a theological and an ethical issue: valuing whiteness over brownness where God meant for us to see ourselves as equals.”

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Features

Comfortable in My Own Skin

My theology says brown skin is beautiful, but my Pinterest page said otherwise.

by
Maika Llaneza
Magazine
Features

Called to a Dangerous Oddness

Jesus is that great voice of otherwise, who saw the contradictions of the gospel to the Roman Empire and who acted out an alternative.

by
Walter Brueggemann

Why Four Christian Activists Risked Arrest to Shut Down an Oil Pipeline

"If Jesus were here today, he'd probably be shutting off a pipeline," said one activist.

by
Stephen Quirke

Voices

Voices
Mobilizing Hope

We Need the Beloved Community Now More than Ever

In times of great polarization, we must look to moral visions that unite Americans around a bigger story of us.

Adam Russell Taylor
President
Voices
From The Editors

From the Editor: January 2020

To expand the use of fossil fuels in the context of the climate crisis is an immoral and even criminal act.

by Jim Rice
Voices
Commentary

Giving a Stranger Your House Key

Sponsorship programs for asylum seekers fight back against the Trump administration's violent and inhumane policies.

by
Heather Cronk

Amazonians to the Church: Not Everything Is For Sale

At the synod in Rome, Indigenous communities challenged the Catholic Church to confront the mechanisms of destruction.

by
Emilie Teresa Smith

The Shame of U.S. War Profiteering

Record-breaking profits roll in from weapons "drenched in innocent blood."

by
Art Laffin
Voices
Columns

Epiphany is a Time for Imaginative Leaps

Paradigm shifts begin with a daring political act.

by
Rose Marie Berger

We—the Church—Are Being Re-formed

“My most potent times of worship have happened while locked arm in arm with Jesus followers.”

by
Lisa Sharon Harper

The Hypocrisy of Religious Freedom and Refugee Limits

What message is the U.S. sending by defying the basic principle of supporting those who face serious persecution based on their faith?

by
Najeeba Syeed
Voices
Eyewitness

If They Cannot Pay, Let Them Thirst?

As told to Sojourners.

by
Rev. Roslyn Bouier

Vision

Vision
Culture

The Unconventional Life of Anne Lister

HBO's Gentleman Jack focuses on Lister's desire to find a wife and marry her in the eyes of God.

by
Kimberly Winston

A Sane Country Would Welcome Them All

Living Undocumented follows people whose greatest crime was to believe in the American dream.

by
Danny Duncan Collum

Don't Tell Her

The emotions of The Farewell may be universal but the specific cultural scripts belong to each of us.

by
Chris Karnadi

New & Noteworthy: January 2020

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

by
The Editors
Vision
Books

Poems that Draw Out the Poison

A review of Bending the Arch: Poems, by Rose Marie Berger.

by
Steven Charleston

You Can’t End Hunger By Yourself

A review of I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis, by Jeremy K. Everett.

by
Jon Little

‘I Am Frequently Reminded I Am an Outlier’

An excerpt from I Bring the Voices of My People.

by
Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Vision
Poetry

Borderlands

A poem.

by
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Vision
Living The Word

A Thrill of Hope in a Weary World

Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A.

by
M. Daniel Carroll R.
Vision
H'rumphs

Dinosaurs, Rudy Giuliani, and Other Antediluvian Muck

Funny business by Ed Spivey Jr.

by
Ed Spivey Jr.
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