"As I pronounce her name / the bees whisper their syllables / and burn their wings." (1988) sojo.net/magazine/nov...

“G-d is the mysterious Mother-Father who birthed us all.” sojo.net/magazine/apr...

"Jesus adopts the role of wife and mother as she would behave when the father is absent." (2013) sojo.net/magazine/jun...

"As we celebrate the mother figures in our lives, let’s ask: What does gender equality look and feel like for them — for you?" sojo.net/articles/opi...

"To celebrate Mother’s Day, I begin by remembering the many biblical stories of motherhood — stories that too many of us forget, or lack words, to celebrate." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"In which a Black slave child gets mistaken as a girl by the abolitionist John Brown and looped into the eccentric Jesus warrior’s crusade for the freedom of all U.S. slaves." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"The treasure of the Christian female godhead remains buried, but it can be uncovered." sojo.net/magazine/sep...

"When I see Jeremiah 1:5 written in bubble letters on protest signs, I see a Bible verse that has been stripped of its original meaning." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"How should Christians push their communities toward a diversity that goes beyond lip service?" sojo.net/articles/opi...

"May you live, cry the birds / beloved, wise, and die / sustained by those you sustained" (Daniel Berrigan) sojo.net/magazine/aug...

Lin spoke with Sojourners about his connection to Chau’s experience and how working on Last Days has encouraged him to keep an open mind when exploring other people’s stories. sojo.net/articles/cul...

"Time and time again, America has valued the product over the producers – especially when the producers are immigrants or people of color." sojo.net/articles/opi...

Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, who is also the senior pastor of Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, wrote on social media that the decision was a “devastating and profound step backwards for American Democracy.” sojo.net/articles/new...

When the U.S. Department of Justice released its report on “eradicating anti-Christian bias” last week, the argument it sought to settle had long hardened into familiar fault lines. sojo.net/articles/new...

"What happens when we deviate from the life script we’ve been handed, especially when that life script is dictated by religion?" sojo.net/magazine/may...

"My own decision to start the deconstruction process had less to do with being won over by intellectual arguments and more to do with experiencing incomprehensible grief." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Our love of God directs and catalyzes our love of neighbor, just as the enjoyment of our neighbor orients and energizes our love for God." sojo.net/articles/cul...

Thanks to @sojo.net for hosting this conversation! @inequality.org @ips-dc.org @patrioticmillionaires.org @abigaildisney.bsky.social @revadamtaylor.bsky.social l www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDmY...

“We are Reformed, even though people who identified as ‘hardcore’ Reformed in the denomination hurt us.” sojo.net/magazine/may...

“Mulat, ang masa ang mesias,” said the Filipino poet-activist Eman Lacaba. It translates to, “Awakened, the masses are Messiah.” sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Civil rights leaders secured passage of the Voting Rights Act more than 60 years ago with their blood, sweat, and tears; we must now continue the struggle for voting rights and fair representation with ours as well." sojo.net/articles/opi...

“We are constantly making decisions about proximity: Who is inside, who is outside, and under what conditions. Defectors complicate that calculus.” sojo.net/articles/opi...

"There are prayers inside apologies, / prayers folded into the pause before forgiveness. / Some are spoken aloud, / some mouthed with shaking hands." (Rebeka Goodman, 2025) sojo.net/magazine/nov...

"Flirting with racism may help your career but, eventually, it leaves you for dead." sojo.net/magazine/feb...

"In a time when technology increasingly serves to nullify our bodies, the desert’s physicality obliterates the mind." (2018) sojo.net/magazine/jun...

"To meaningfully come to the table, we cannot begrudgingly sit in the farthest seat with our hands cupped over our ears. We must become people who desire the table." sojo.net/articles/cul...

A deep-dive into Christian Reformed Church and how the hardening of their theology on sexuality led to their affirming churches breaking away. sojo.net/magazine/may...

In New York City, many home care workers work 24-hour shifts for up to five days straight, and are only paid for 13 hours of each shift. If they do not agree to this, they risk losing their job. sojo.net/articles/opi...

"For me and others in the Black church, the court’s decision is an affront to our forebears and to the core values of our faith, including the belief in the inherent dignity of every person," writes @revadamtaylor.bsky.social. sojo.net/articles/opi...

“Our movement doesn’t need more witnesses to harm. We need participants in the demolition of harm, the construction of freedom, and the ongoing delivery of healing,” writes @ivnames.bsky.social. sojo.net/articles/opi...

We find ourselves at a funeral for the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement. My latest for @sojo.net: sojo.net/articles/opi...

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"We both wrestle with the complexities of what it means to be forgiven and forgive others in a dehumanizing society that prefers punishment over repair." sojo.net/magazine/may...

"Nearly 150 years later, members of the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne have joined forces once again to defend themselves against a new threat to their communal life: fossil fuels." sojo.net/magazine/jun...

"Whether you’re a Black woman in a kitchen in central Illinois or a Black woman at the center of one of the most consequential elections in American history, you’re not immune to misogynoir." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"In spring the waters animate and air-infuse / to a sea-like green, the bounty verging on a flood: / cataract and water-flare between two banks." (Geri Doran, 2015) sojo.net/magazine/sep...

"When watching the films of a class-conscious filmmaker like Bong, one invariably gets the impression that these institutions have to be destroyed before they can destroy us." sojo.net/articles/cul...

"I went to Ukraine to hear Jesus speak in the language of the Ukrainian people, to see their suffering and their creative determination, to touch their wounds." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Leo wants to situate himself not as an adversary but as a person capable of fostering dialogue and preserving peace." sojo.net/articles/new...

"Some prison ministries assume that they bring Jesus to the prison. But Jesus is already there. It’s up to us to see what he is up to." sojo.net/magazine/may...

"Beyond individual care for those in the pews, however, is the question of systemic policies that prevent health and healing. And here, too, Christian narratives matter in the public square." sojo.net/articles/new...

"We need to recognize the diaspora not as a weakness or failure, but as a hope, a refuge, and a site for antifascist defiance." sojo.net/articles/opi...

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Sojourners associate editor @josinaguess.bsky.social on caring for her 'mother-in-love' with dementia: "I shifted my focus onto all that is there, not the many gaps in her memory." sojo.net/magazine/may...

"This recognition has brought grief but, more so, anger—an anger that can be summed up perfectly by the prophetic words of Wright: 'God damn America.'" sojo.net/articles/opi...

"I’ll show you a constellation of different groups who worked behind the scenes to ensure participants felt welcome, safe, and free to express vulnerable emotions in public." sojo.net/articles/int...

"One wrong way to read the Sermon on the Mount is to read it as an impossible standard that Jesus met so you don’t have to." sojo.net/articles/int...

"We come asking as those who desire to always be students of the Great Teacher." sojo.net/articles/tea...

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"The anti-abortion movement wants to replace my wonder at life’s origins with draconian, misogynist laws." sojo.net/articles/opi...