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Sojourners Magazine: May 2025

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How deaf Christians are worshiping and building community beyond what most churches have to offer.

Features

Illustration of two hands signing and an outline of figures sitting on chairs on one of the hands

95% of deaf Christians don’t attend church, but many of us are finding spiritual home in creative ways.

by
Rachel Kolb
Magazine
Features
Rev. Wayne Lee standing in front of church next to other protesters

He wanted to save Philadelphia’s Chinatown — and found himself in the middle of a movement.

by
Darren Saint-Ulysse
Ivory-billed woodpecker flying out of a hole in a tree.

What the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker teaches us about belief and unbelief.

by
Martha Park

Voices

Voices
Mobilizing Hope
Ilustration of someone holding a heart with other faces inside of it

A word from Sojourners’ president to the U.S. vice president.

Voices
From The Editors
Dollie Burwell was a United Church of Christ leader and key organizer against a toxic waste landfill placed in a predominately black community in North Carolina.

An introduction to the May 2025 issue of Sojourners.

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary
Simplistic image of a boat on top of red waves guided by a light house.

As the wizard Gandalf says, “despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”

by
J.K. Granberg-Michaelson
Mahmoud Muna, one of the owners of East Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop, sits in a branch of the store. He and his nephew Ahmad were detained in February 2025, following an Israeli police raid.

Historical patterns of intolerance from Germany to Israel to the U.S.

by
Greta Lapp Klassen
Voices
Columns
The Berger family (John with salmon) in 1974 at the Klamath River in California.

I found a note where Dad explained why he kept so much stuff.

by
Rose Marie Berger
Graphics of healthy foods and activities arranged in the shape of the USA.

Maybe the renewed focus on nutrition can be an opening for conversation and collaboration.

by
Liuan Huska
Voices
Eyewitness
n Washington, D.C., fired USAID workers and HIV activists protested President Trump's drive to close the foreign aid agency. 

What Christians in Malawi don’t understand about Christians in the U.S.

by
Beth Steubing

Vision

Vision
Culture
Comic strip saying, "The great wound is healed all things made new."

Four panels took me from doom to a sacred place, like a numinous telegram.

by
Céire Kealty
Anthony Mackie as Captain America, holding up his shield.

It’s such a shame that Captain America: Brave New World offers only the veneer of substance.

by
Curtis Yee
Portrait of a mother holding a child in her lap and washing its feet.

Cassatt’s paintings remind me of the kind of person I want to be.

by
Sarah James
Vision
Books
Book cover of Sacred Parenthood

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

by
The Editors
Book cover of Good Soil

In his new memoir, Good Soil, Chu writes about raising chickens, rejuvenating soil, and searching for meaning.

by
Kaeley McEvoy
Book cover of Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry, by Beth Alison Barr

Beth Allison Barr’s Becoming the Pastor’s Wife details just how very untrue the story we’re often told about women in church leadership is.

by
Kyndall Rae Rothaus
Vision
Poetry

A poem.

by
Colm O'Shea
Vision
Living The Word

May reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.

by
Dong Hyeon Jeong
Vision
H'rumphs

My humor exists because of my inner darkness, not in spite of it.

by
Beth Cooper-Chrismon