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Sojourners Magazine: June 2024

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Theologian Katya Tolstaya on saving Russian Orthodoxy from Putin’s agenda.

Features

Theologian Katya Tolstaya on making sense of evil, including Putin’s ongoing war against Ukraine.

by
Tim Brinkhof
Magazine
Features

When lies and AIDS brought my parents’ facade of superiority crashing down, I lost faith – but grace found us all.

by
Diana Keough

A conversation with Jonathan Tran about the “personalist” approach to race and the church's role in a reconstructed imagination.

by
Josiah R. Daniels

Voices

Voices
Tell It Slant

From 2022 to 2023, there was a 92% increase in books targeted for censorship at public libraries.

by Julie Polter
Voices
From The Editors

Justice is built into the order of creation. We’re simply living into that reality.

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary

Climate financing proposed by the highest polluter nations is akin to blood money, the churches say.

by
James Shri Bhagwan

An interview with Knesset member Ofer Cassif on the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and Israel's response. 

by
Rose Marie Berger
Voices
Columns

We only have six years to prevent climate change from curtailing civilization.

by
Bill McKibben

But if trauma can be passed down generationally, so too can healing.

by
José Humphreys III
Voices
Eyewitness

Now on the back of quarters, Pauli Murray’s face will soon become more familiar to Americans. 

by
Angela Mason

Vision

Vision
Culture
A person wearing a tall pink wig and a pink dress with rainbow fluffy sleeves is standing at the pulpit of a church, preaching. There is a pride flag in the background.

“I want to be the queer elder I never had.”

by
Emma Cieslik

What does it mean for Black bodies to find rest in a violent world? 

by
Josina Guess

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

by
Abby Olcese
The image shows the cover of the podcast "reclaiming my theology" which shows churches in front of a mountain, with a cityscape in the front.

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

by
The Editors
Vision
Books
The image shows the book "Zero at the Bone" by Christian Wiman, which has a tan cover with an orange circle drawn on it.

In Zero at the Bone, the lament is just as valuable as the sermon.

by
Jenna Barnett
The picture shows the cover of the book "Devout" by Anna Gazmarian, which is a blue book with a gray graphic that looks like two arms holding hands except the tops of the arms are churches.

In Devout: A Memoir of Doubt, Anna Gazmarian explains how poetry helped her find a real sense of belonging.

by
Cassidy Klein
Vision
Poetry

A poem.

by
D.S. Martin
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Living The Word

June reflections on scripture from the Common Revised Lectionary (Cycle B).

by
Raj Nadella
Vision
H'rumphs

Introducing NIBBLE, a promising new nonprofit aimed to evangelize rats. 

by
Greta Lapp Klassen