This whole thread is important. Outrageous and incredibly harmful decision by the administration.

It was moving to see Erika Kirk forgive her husband’s killer because “that is what Christ would do” and say we cannot meet hate with more hate. In stark contrast, President Trump disagreed saying “he hates his opponents”. I pray that our nation and TP embraces her witness and not Trump’s.

We’re humbled and beyond grateful to @ricksteves.bsky.social for his continued support. Thank you Rick!

I wrote for @sojo.net this week on the need for a surge of solidarity for our immigrant neighbors. Read my column at sojo.net/articles/opi...

Thanks to @rns.org for the opportunity to write about Johnson Amendment protections for faith communities and non-profit organizations. I appreciated the chance to give my perspective both as president of @sojo.net and board chair of @independentsector.bsky.social. religionnews.com/2025/09/17/w...

My prayers are lifted for the family and loved ones of Charlie Kirk. Violence has no place in our body politic. As much as we can and will disagree politically, we must find a way to end this vicious, heartbreaking cycle of gun violence www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

"If Christians are honest with themselves about the gospel message of Jesus, they should know that protesting can be a holy act of righteousness." sojo.net/articles/jes...

Proud to march and protest today with the We are all Dc calling for self rule and an end to the occupation in DC. We must work ensure these authoritarian style tactics end here and don’t spread to other cities.

Next Saturday 🙏🏽 Join SojoAction + several partners for the Beloved Community Banquet. A free meal where love, joy, and resilience come alive. 📅 Sept 6 | 🕓 4–7 PM 📍 Walker Memorial Baptist Church We are a community that will not be silenced 💜

Now is the time to learn how to demand your rights. sojo.net/magazine/sep...

"I didn’t expect church to be the place where I learned 803Fresh’s 'Boots on the Ground,' the latest line dance taking the nation by storm." sojo.net/articles/cul...

Grateful for the opportunity to participate in a liturgy of repentance today led by Creation Justice Ministries to kick off the Season of Creation, a series of prayer and ritual gatherings.

Always great to catch up with Chauncey DeVega of @salon.com. I recently had the chance to connect with him about Trump's recent fixation on getting into heaven. Chauncey's full piece is here: www.salon.com/2025/08/28/w...

I'm heartbroken at the reports now emerging from Minnesota about the shooting at a Catholic school. It is long overdue for our country to do better by our kids by changing the laws that make deadly weapons so plentiful and available. We must never allow atrocities like this to become normalized.

If you in or around the DC area, please come join us tonight as we pray and bear witness against the federal overreach in our community.

Looking forward to participating in this important webinar next week. I hope you'll consider joining us. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Important piece from my colleague @chadstanton.blacksky.app on the profoundly immoral rollbacks of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for many migrant people.

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." — Desmond Tutu sojo.net/daily-wisdom...

"If seminaries teach that students are to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, who embraced the poor and the weak, they need to embody that same witness." sojo.net/articles/opi...

🚨 ACTION ALERT: An estimated 80,000 dead. Gaza is starving. Christians under attack. Tell Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump: End the blockade. End the killing. 🕊️ Every life is sacred. Take action: sojo.net/blockade

As people of faith, we cannot stay silent. Leaders are called to govern with justice, peace, and truth, not fear and force. Tell Congress: End the occupation in the District of Columbia! 🔗 Take Action Here: sojo.net/freedc

"Our technologies are not simply springboards to becoming gods or mirrors through which to flatter ourselves. They should also humble us." sojo.net/articles/cul...

"The problem here isn’t people leaving the country to make a fresh start." sojo.net/magazine/aug...

"Justice, in this vision, does not trickle; instead, justice flows like a mighty torrent. It saturates. It sustains. But in Gaza today, this metaphor is hollow. How can 'justice roll down like waters' when water itself is under siege?" sojo.net/magazine/sep...

👋🏽 Remember TARU? It’s back. Originally launched during the chaos of 2020, SojoAction’s Truth and Action Roundup is now a weekly newsletter delivering: 📰 Faith-rooted news 📖 Spiritual reflection ✊🏾 Action steps 📚 Must-reads from prophetic voices. Sojo.net/taru

Starting this week I am taking some planned time off to vacation with my family and recharge my batteries for ministry and activism. My team at @sojo.net will be monitoring my social media accounts and resharing occasional content until my return on August 22nd.

Faith leaders, our communities need you. As programs like Medicaid and SNAP face uncertainty, SojoAction invites you to a new webinar series: Engage and Adapt. We’re equipping faith leaders to organize, lead, and prepare for what’s ahead. 🗓️ Join us Aug 5 @ 7PM ET. 🖥 RSVP: sojo.net/engage

The loss of Colbert on late night television feels symbolic of several larger trends, writes Tyler Huckabee. sojo.net/articles/cul...

The real purpose of a vaccine is to protect not just individuals but all of us. Being vaccinated against dangerous diseases is one of the most concrete things any of us can possibly do to fulfill Jesus’ commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. My latest for @sojo.net: sojo.net/articles/opi...

Grateful for the opportunity to write for @rns.org about the urgent necessity of advocacy efforts to lift up American families at the state and local level. religionnews.com/2025/07/22/c...

For communities that want to stand in solidarity with trans people, here are five additional action steps that you and your religious community can take: sojo.net/articles/opi...

"When Jesus said that you can’t serve two masters, he could’ve picked any other thing as that other master, [but] he names riches." sojo.net/articles/rec...

Deeply grateful for the opportunity to appear on Real Talk this week. Thanks so much to David Heiliger for guest hosting and the whole Real Talk team for making it happen. www.youtube.com/live/FNuUzSX...

Shame on Congress for passing a rescission package that cuts $8 billion from lifesaving foreign aid! Loving our neighbors as ourselves applies not just to our neighbors down the street but also our neighbors around the world. For more, visit Sojo.net and follow @sojo.net @sojoaction.bsky.social

My heart breaks for the $9 billion of cuts to life saving health and food programs made permanent by the Senate recession vote. These cuts are immoral and set a dangerous precedent weakening Congress’ power of the purse. Encourage the House to defeat this! abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen...

"To hold one another up is countercultural to this idea of capitalism and rugged individualism. We do something special when we're in community with one another." sojo.net/articles/int...

A reminder that @sojo.net is funded by zero oligarchs and welcomes new readers, subscribers, and donors who support nonprofit journalism focused on faith and social justice. For example, when ICE tries to use the Bible to support its agenda, we publish stuff like; sojo.net/articles/opi...

For this week’s Reconstruct, Josiah R. Daniels speaks with Mohsen Mahdawi on what it was like to be detained by ICE for 16 days — and why he's not giving up. sojo.net/articles/int...

"We know the holy family was a refugee family, and we know Christlike love dissolves borders and demands generosity. In moments of terror, no matter how corrupt and cruel the government may be, God is with the vulnerable." sojo.net/magazine/jul...

New artwork for @sojo.net accompanying a feature by Carolyn Whitney-Brown about Henri Nouwen who was a Dutch Catholic Priest that fell in love with the trapeze. Henri wrote about the faith and trust required between trapeze artists and the parallels with religion. Thanks to A.D. Kory Kennedy!

"We pray for all your children, so dearly loved by you, who know such great destruction as winds and rains crash through. We pray for all those hurting, who grieve for what is gone — for neighbors, friends and siblings who struggle to go on." sojo.net/articles/hym...

With the passage today of the big ugly bill, my heart breaks and prayers are with the estimated 17 million Americans who will lose their health care, millions who will lose access to food, and to communities who will be torn apart by aggressive mass raids. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I’m not letting Christian nationalists ruin my July 4th. Read my column for @sojo.net to find out why at sojo.net/articles/opi...

Check out a recording of a recent webinar on "Christianity and Patriotism" that I participated in with Richard Mouw, former President of Fuller Seminary, and author of "How to Be a Patriotic Christian: Love of Country as Love of Neighbor" at youtu.be/tK8FXkW9Oy4.

A quiet march of coffins at #MoralMondays made one thing clear: lives are on the line. This reconciliation bill isn’t policy—it’s a death sentence for the poor. We march. We mourn. We demand a moral budget.

“It is a deeply immoral bill—but there is still time to do what’s right.” It’s time to flood the Capitol with your calls to stop the so-called “big, beautiful bill” before the Senate passes this travesty. Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and get connected to your Senators’ offices.