the Web Editors 12-27-2019

Protests in Modi’s India, Star Wars, prophetic truth in the new year, and more.

Jim Wallis 12-23-2019

At Sojourners we have had a long relationship with the word “community.” It can mean many things, but it’s a phrase we cling to as part of our calling. A theme that we hear from so many people is that Sojourners helps them feel connected to a community of people of faith who care about social justice.

Jim Wallis shares his thoughts and his blessings this Christmas season.

Gareth Higgins 12-23-2019

Contains mild spoiler.

Let’s start with what works.

Norman Allen 12-23-2019

Mary’s example is an especially powerful one in these troubled times when people insist that their truth is the only truth. 

Imrul Islam 12-23-2019

The recent protests might have been precipitated by the Citizenship Amendment Act, but they are the culmination of long-held grievances. 

Jim Wallis 12-20-2019

Yesterday, the website for Christianity Today, the flagship publication for mainstream evangelicalism founded by Billy Graham, crashed from the influx of traffic when CT published an editorial arguing that President Trump should be removed from office. The editorial said that whether that happens via the impeachment process going on in the House and Senate, or the voters in November 2020 is a fair question on which reasonable people can disagree, but that the personal and public immorality of President Trump, as revealed in the House of Representatives’ impeachment investigation, is so egregious that he must be removed as a matter of faith.

the Web Editors 12-20-2019

Science shows positive results of gratitude, that CT editorial, 25 best books of the decade, and more.

Heather Brady 12-20-2019

Christianity Today, a magazine founded by the late evangelist Billy Graham, published an op-ed Thursday calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office and urging evangelicals not to support him.

Gareth Higgins 12-20-2019

In 2019, a good handful of movies left me feeling elevated; better still, the most joyful films of the year were also among the wisest.