"Known by the Shakers as Mother Ann Lee, the trailblazing leader was regarded as the female manifestation of God’s dual nature." sojo.net/articles/cul...

"When it comes to accompanying young people through mental health challenges, I know the church can do better." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"The Bible doesn’t speak directly to every contemporary situation, but it does have some clear instructions when it comes to delayed paychecks." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Tomlinson’s special portrays this Second Adolescence with a humor, grace, and visibility I haven’t encountered before but am deeply indebted to,” writes Emma Cieslik. sojo.net/articles/cul...

"Our binary conception of good and evil, rooted in Christian teachings about sin and salvation, is not terribly helpful when addressing systemic and generational harms." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"May this insight be useful to you all. And may you feel minimally conflicted when you share it on Facebook." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"What does it do to a kid when their well-being is constantly considered secondary to their parents’ sense of calling?" sojo.net/articles/cul...

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If equal affection cannot be, / Let the more loving one be me. -W.H. Auden, “The More Loving One” sojo.net/daily-wisdom...

"Ryland Grace proves that we aren’t just here to survive; we are here to listen to each other’s song." sojo.net/articles/cul...

"What many of these agents lack is not awareness, but a public permission structure to act on that part of themselves that knows something is wrong." sojo.net/articles/opi...

Serene Jones on Union divesting from fossil fuels in 2016: "There are financial consequences to making socially responsible decisions, and we have felt those...but we did it because we believed it was the right thing." sojo.net/articles/int...

"We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace the unknown — the gaps in our knowledge of the divine — as a way toward understanding God." (2016) sojo.net/articles/god...

"We need people around us when we’re suffering, if only to know that they’re there to call on when we need something." sojo.net/magazine/nov...

"Our children are part of the world; bearing children is always bearing them in some sense for the world." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"This Lent, those choices feel both embodied and communal with shared stakes for us all." sojo.net/articles/opi...

On World Water Day, consider this: "By allowing nature to reach us, shape us, and splash against our skin, our commitment to the life around us deepens." sojo.net/magazine/dec...

"Her insistence on touching each item and seeing if it sparks joy develops out of the Shinto belief in kami or god(s). The item can spark joy because it has divine life." (2019) sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Womanism is the gardener who pulls up the weeds by the root." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Rizpah’s vigil is an invitation for us today to stand firm against erasure, apathy, and hopelessness." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"In America today, we are dealing with forces that are deep and pervasive and they mean us no good." sojo.net/magazine/nov...

"[Jubilee is] a command to actually do something with our awareness that will make the world a more just place." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Cicadas pound their string wings / like angry violinists, rosin-less." (Rose Marie Berger, 1997) sojo.net/magazine/may...

“When it comes to the climate budget, the global North is deep in the red.” sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Grace is humanity’s only hope. And yes, his name matters: In a universe of cold physics, he must find the 'grace' to navigate a connection he never planned to make," writes JR. Forasteros. sojo.net/articles/cul...

"The church can’t manufacture someone’s awakening. But it must become a sturdy community that encourages and receives defectors," writes Colin Martinez Longmore. sojo.net/articles/opi...

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An interview with Serene Jones on how her 18-year tenure as the first woman president of Union Theological Seminary both upheld and challenged the legacy of progressive faith in social justice organizing. sojo.net/articles/int...

"I’ve been known to lurk on social media like it’s a fantasy football app, Dr Pepper or coffee in hand, to see how I’m comparing to everyone else in Lenten fasting." sojo.net/magazine/mar...

"Benbow invites us to reflect on the expansiveness of God — a God who sees Black women and girls as holy." sojo.net/articles/opi...

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"In a society threaded with violence and injustice, Haga suggests it is not enough to simply resolve to be nonviolent. We must be strategic...We must, as he says, 'practice ten thousand ways to turn the other cheek.'" sojo.net/magazine/may...

"Trauma changes you to your core. A huge part of the story is Kenna learning to forgive herself. You can’t hope to forgive others if you can’t forgive yourself.” -Maika Monroe sojo.net/articles/cul...

Voto Latino, a Latino voter advocacy group, said in a statement that Chavez’s “heinous actions cannot and must not erase the work of the thousands of women, men, and families who built the farmworker movement.” sojo.net/articles/new...

"As much as I practice the rhythms of change, / I still can’t soften my body toward its metal mouth of violence." (Kristin Gifford, 2023) sojo.net/magazine/jul...

"Quiet docility to God’s spirit, tenderness towards the excluded, and openness to everyone: these are the values [of] Joseph of Nazareth." (2016) sojo.net/articles/wha...

"Saarah Yasmin Latif is on a mission to help people of all religious traditions connect their faith with individual and collective acts to sustain the earth." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Doubt is there to challenge you and get you to a position where you’re closer to your spiritual side and that spiritual connection that we all share." sojo.net/articles/int...

"Parishes, backyards, and schools are restoring land with local species. Some habitats take the form of Mary gardens: devotional spaces that both honor the Mother of God and enhance biodiversity." sojo.net/magazine/may...

"I want my doubts to make me tender, not ruthless." sojo.net/magazine/mar...

"Through its empathetic lens, 'Reminders of Him' brings the people behind these statistics into focus, insisting that grace belongs to them, too." sojo.net/articles/cul...

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“I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for,” said Huerta, 96, in the statement, explaining why she had not publicly spoken of what happened earlier. sojo.net/articles/new...

"I sat in silence with the family who had just lost their entire life’s belongings, not knowing what to say. 'May God return everything and more,' their neighbors gently whispered as they gave their respects." sojo.net/articles/opi...

From @19news.org: “We are asking people: Continue to stand with grassroots leadership in the state of Minnesota, where Target is actually headquartered, and not clout-chasers, not fake pastors, not fake activists trying to co-opt our work.” -Nekima Levy Armstrong sojo.net/articles/new...

"Did you know you can win Lent?" sojo.net/magazine/mar...

"Is repentance sufficient without reparation for the harm done in your sin? And how genuine, or at least how lasting, was that repentance?" (2021) sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Balliett wrote my favorite alternate dimension into being, where art isn’t a stuffy thing behind glass but a conversation hundreds of years in the making." sojo.net/magazine/mar...

"If you want to be a friend of God — and God needs all the friends that God can get in these times — then you will have to work for a better world." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"remember how your chest loosens from / the chill of being alive, here, and beautiful" (Lilia Marie Ellis, March 2026) sojo.net/magazine/mar...