Sojourners Magazine: September/October 2019
Many Christians assume that having an enemy is a botched form of discipleship resulting from failed reconciliation. But the expectation of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that we will have enemies.
Features
If you're going to love your enemies, you need to know who they are.
An interview with Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene.
Christian feminists fight for #ChurchToo in Bolsonaro's Brazil.
Voices
It's challenging to offer thanksgiving for a presidency filled with so much cruelty.
With no weapons but their bodies and an indomitable spirit, the people of Sudan demand civilian rule.
In sub-Saharan Africa, people are really suffering—not tomorrow, but today.
It's not okay to make ninth-graders save the planet by themselves.
White supremacy teaches false, hierarchical models of creation limiting who is in the circle of care.
We can blame governments and unjust laws, but eventually we have to face ourselves as active participants.
Vision
College and university art museums exhibit the dangers facing our environment.
Capturing the complexities of consumerist culture in Ling Ma's novel, Severance.
A conversation with Robert W. Lee IV, author of A Sin By Any Other Name: Reckoning With Racism and the Heritage of the South
A poem
September reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.
October reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.
Funny business by Ed Spivey Jr.
Suffer the Little Children
Lawsuits again pit religious freedom against LGBTQ rights.