Sojourners Magazine: May 2025
How deaf Christians are worshiping and building community beyond what most churches have to offer.
Features
95% of deaf Christians don’t attend church, but many of us are finding spiritual home in creative ways.
What the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker teaches us about belief and unbelief.
He wanted to save Philadelphia’s Chinatown — and found himself in the middle of a movement.
Voices
A word from Sojourners’ president to the U.S. vice president.
Maybe the renewed focus on nutrition can be an opening for conversation and collaboration.
What Christians in Malawi don’t understand about Christians in the U.S.
Vision
It’s such a shame that Captain America: Brave New World offers only the veneer of substance.
Four panels took me from doom to a sacred place, like a numinous telegram.
In his new memoir, Good Soil, Chu writes about raising chickens, rejuvenating soil, and searching for meaning.
Beth Allison Barr’s Becoming the Pastor’s Wife details just how very untrue the story we’re often told about women in church leadership is.
Three culture recommendations from our editors.
A poem.
May reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.
My humor exists because of my inner darkness, not in spite of it.
They Came for the Books First
Historical patterns of intolerance from Germany to Israel to the U.S.
Moving Beyond ‘Whaddya Gonna Do’
As the wizard Gandalf says, “despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”