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.
Christian feminists fight for #ChurchToo in Bolsonaro's Brazil.
An interview with Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene.
Voices
It's challenging to offer thanksgiving for a presidency filled with so much cruelty.
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.
A conversation with Robert W. Lee IV, author of A Sin By Any Other Name: Reckoning With Racism and the Heritage of the South
Capturing the complexities of consumerist culture in Ling Ma's novel, Severance.
A poem
October reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.
September reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.
Funny business by Ed Spivey Jr.
A Taste for Freedom
With no weapons but their bodies and an indomitable spirit, the people of Sudan demand civilian rule.