Sojourners Magazine: April 2020
How three coastal churches became hubs of community resilience in the era of climate change.
Features
Stories of churches reimagining their land, mission, and ministry for the age of climate change.
For Jesse Milan Jr., helping diverse communities end the HIV epidemic is a matter of faith, hope, and love.
The church was an accomplice in stripping home and identity from me and my ancestors. But the church can also bring freedom.
Voices
I am asking God to help us stop the overt white nationalism and turn us in a new, redemptive direction.
Around 70 percent of major nonviolent movements succeeded in the '90s; only 30 percent did so in the last decade, says Erica Chenoweth.
Eligible voters are being removed from voter rolls at an alarming rate in states with extensive histories of racial discrimination and election battleground states.
Why interfaith engagement must move beyond bridge-building.
Why white women have, historically, been disappointing allies to women of color.
God didn’t tell us we’d be consigned to the flames—but neither did God tell us we couldn’t consign ourselves.
Vision
The values many art museums tout are far too vulnerable to the wiles of capital, capital, and capital.
The Catholic Worker cofounder died nearly four decades ago, but a new film shows that her vision is very much alive.
Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World speaks to the self-involved world we live in now.
A review of Priscilla: The Life of an Early Christian, by Ben Witherington III.
A review of Romans Disarmed: Resisting Empire, Demanding Justice, by Sylvia C. Keesmaat and Brian J. Walsh.
A review of River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey, by Sister Helen Prejean.
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A.
Funny business by Ed Spivey Jr.
The Nuclear Threat You’ve Never Heard Of
The shoreline of a former nuclear site collapsed into the Detroit River—and barely anyone noticed.