Magazine

Sojourners Magazine: March 2021

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The gospel is indeed good news for the poor—even in a crisis of poverty.

Features

Aerial view of cars waiting in a food line in a parking lot in Texas.

Food Lines in The ‘Land of Plenty’

A biblical look at the crisis of poverty today.

by

Liz Theoharis

Magazine

Features

Graphic of various items related to policing. First aid kit, hand gun, cell phone, ambulance, etc

Alternatives to Police Exist. You Just Haven't Heard of Them

How faith and community leaders are reimagining public safety.

by

Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Illustration of a family holding hands, walking out of a cave.

Radical Endurance Is Forged in the Fire

The struggle in the country that is sick.

by

Danté Stewart

Voices

Hearts & Minds

Taking Sojourners Into the Next 50 Years

Our life and mission for the future.

Jim Wallis

Founder and Ambassador

Voices

From The Editors

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From the Editor: March 2021

Hope lies in recognizing that God is with us in the struggle.

by Jim Rice

Voices

Commentary

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The Politics of Pentecostalism

Pentecostalism began as an interracial movement and held pacifist positions.

by

Miguel Petrosky

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Yemen Is Not Starving. It Is Being Starved.

Biden must act to stop the famine.

by

Hassan El-Tayyab

Illustration of a face exhaling a purple puff of air.

A Year of Negotiating Grief

Lent is an invitation to converse with grief in all its expressions.

by

Osheta Moore

Voices

Columns

The Problem With ‘Historic Firsts’

Institutions have the capacity to assimilate and co-opt critique instead of being transformed by it.

by

Jeania Ree V. Moore

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We Have 9 Years Left—450 Sunday Sermons—to Save the Planet

Climate math turns to moral issues.

by

Bill McKibben

Voices

Eyewitness

Trump supporters at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot hold a cross that says 'Jesus Saves'

‘We Hate the Media! Get Out of Here!’

A student journalist's firsthand account of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

by

Madison Muller

Vision

Culture

The cover of "Black Church" features a photo of the inside of a black church during the Civil Rights movement. A scene from The Long Song depicts a 19th century British woman with an enslaved young Jamaican woman.

New & Noteworthy: Jamaican History, Raising Children, and More

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

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The Editors

Vermeer's "A Lady Writing" depicts a woman sitting at a desk in a yellow robe writing.

Even You Have the Right to Pontificate About Vermeer

Art isn't a stuffy thing behind glass but a conversation hundreds of years in the making.

by

Faith-Marie Zamblé

Colorful scribbles bursting out of a drawn heart within a human frame.

Drawing May Be Key to Accessing Spirituality

Exploring art as an access point to the soul.

by

Menachem Wecker

A drummer sits at his drum set in a scene from 'Sound of Metal'

A Drummer Reckons With Silence

A review of Darius Marder’s drama Sound of Metal.

by

Abby Olcese

Vision

Books

From Gothic Mystics to Modern Mothers

Darkness is as Light offers spirituality for difficult times.

by

Julie Vassilatos

The cover of "Decolonizing Christianity"

Whiteness Is a Jealous God

An excerpt from Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers.

by

Miguel A. De La Torre

The covers of "Patriotic Dissent" and "To Start A War"

America's Endless Lie of War

“The horror, the futility, the farce of war in Iraq,” writes Daniel A. Sjursen, “was the turning point of my life.”

by

Weldon Nisly

Vision

Poetry

Spider

A poem.

by

Benjamin Schmitt

Vision

Living The Word

Captive to Sin, Healed for Justice

March reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle B.

by

Isaac S. Villegas

Vision

H'rumphs

I'm Well Over 65, But Cursed With the Body of a 64-Year-Old

From our humor columnist.

by

Ed Spivey Jr.