Sojourners Magazine: February 2008

The Foods Resource Bank Bridges the rural-urban divide through farming and giving.

Marketing infant formula at the cost of young lives.

Evangelicals are leaving the Religious Right in droves.

The gospel calls us to a “preferential option for the poor” to address the conditions of the 37 million adults and children who live in poverty in the United States.

Before he was killed in World War I—tragically, just days before the Armistice—the poet Wilfred Owen wrote these words as preface to the book he never got to hold in his hands: “

Even at a length of just under 100 pages, Ron Austin’s In a New Light: Spirituality and the Media Arts is four or five books in one, a quality that proves to be both an asset and a c

Ben Harper is known for songs that are either personal or political, and in Lifeline, his latest release with the Innocent Criminals, the songs embody both.

Color of Money. In 1974, the U.S. median black income was 63 percent of that of whites.

An estimated 25,000 people gathered in Novem­ber at the gates of Fort Benning in Georgia as part of the 18th annual School of the Americas protest. The U.S.

If you don’t want to drink milk from cows injected with hormones, then be careful buying milk in Pennsylvania. As of Feb.

To your rich November 2007 special issue, “Tel­ling Stories,” on books and theater, I’d like to add a brief but, to me, significant emendation.

I cannot tell you why I taste death; the cupboards are reasonably arranged, the windows clean as rain.