Sojourners Magazine: September/October 2020
If we want people to vote, we need to talk about power — and outsmart the deliberate barriers placed in the way.
Features
How to outsmart the deliberate barriers placed in voters’ way.
There was no original innocence; the heresy of white supremacy and its resulting sins were there from the beginning.
How will our ongoing traumas affect the way our kids see the world, God, and faith?
Voices
We are facing a moral crossroads for our nation.
The death penalty does not align with values like the sanctity of human life, individual liberty, and limited government.
Too many students have been dehumanized, disrespected, and criminalized by police in their schools.
Revisiting my entangled and complicit family history.
Americans must vow to never relive the ongoing horror of 2020.
Vision
“Crime shows are propaganda for the police, telling the American psyche that we need cops to maintain order.”
How the coronavirus pandemic could bring more democracy to U.S. theater.
A review of One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins, by Emmy Kegler.
A poem.
October reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A.
September reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A.
Funny business by Ed Spivey Jr.
Racist Immigration Narratives Lead to Racist Laws
The DACA decision was a temporary victory, but it does not dismantle the massive deportation machine.