WE'VE EXPERIENCED a season of transitions here in the nation’s capital. Coinciding with the onset of a new political administration, at Sojourners we’ve also been going through a significant passing of the torch. Adam Russell Taylor has taken up the mantle as new president of the organization, as part of a multiyear succession process. Outgoing president and cofounder Jim Wallis will continue to work with Sojourners in a variety of capacities and starting this fall will also have a new full-time faculty position and found a new center at Georgetown University on faith, public life, and the common good.
Longtime civil rights activist Ruby Sales and associate editor Da’Shawn Mosley talk in this issue about a different kind of transition: the task of empowering an emerging generation of leaders. Sales asks the provocative question, “What does it mean to look at oneself through the gaze of one’s own history?” and encourages people “to touch their full capacities as human beings” and “not see themselves through the eyes of the empire.” Those are challenges—and invitations—that apply to us all.
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