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“Bob the Tomato wishes he could be here,” Larry explains, “but he didn’t want to miss Bad Bunny’s performance.”
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Larry the Cucumber Should Headline TPUSA’s Halftime Show
And other really good, really plausible ways this event can live into the biblical call to social justice.
https://sojo.net/magazine/januaryfebruary-2026/humor/larry-cucumber-should-headline-tpusas-halftime-show
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"The Testament of Ann Lee" showcases the "mad, unwavering faith" of the founder of the Shakers and the church's roots of inclusivity that we could stand to learn from today.
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A Forgotten Utopia Comes to Life in ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
Director Mona Fastvold was determined to remember the ecstatic Shaker “who mothered the world.”
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"The Western church is too convinced of its status—of its chosenness—and so, like Noah, it preaches to the lost but does not argue about the pending judgment."
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Why Was Noah Silent at the End of the World?
Finding the courage to argue with those who claim to speak for God.
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"History will pass judgment on Pedro Arrupe's ultimate place in the Jesuit Order. Still, it seems clear already that his niche will be found alongside the great ones of that remarkable group, even that of the founder himself, Ignatius of Loyola." (1991)
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Pedro Arrupe
The other Basque
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"There will never be any ideas in Bezos’ bundle that would seriously challenge the future of the corporate world order." (2013)
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A Benevolent Baron
The Post's credible voice for corporate centrism is a large part of what Bezos wants for his $250 million.
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In light of the mass layoffs at The Washington Post, a callout to billionaires becoming "a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us."
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A Christian Plan to Help Billionaires
There is no logical reason for people to live like this. We should help them.
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"I think for Ann, when constructing her utopia, her removal of sexuality was a desperate attempt at autonomy," director Mona Fastvold told Sojourners in this Q&A.
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A Forgotten Utopia Comes to Life in ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
Director Mona Fastvold was determined to remember the ecstatic Shaker “who mothered the world.”
https://sojo.net/articles/culture/forgotten-utopia-comes-life-testament-ann-lee
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"I haven’t been able to get my hands on the plans, but I have some really good, really plausible recommendations to help this event live into the biblical call to social justice."
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Larry the Cucumber Should Headline TPUSA’s Halftime Show
And other really good, really plausible ways this event can live into the biblical call to social justice.
https://sojo.net/magazine/januaryfebruary-2026/humor/larry-cucumber-should-headline-tpusas-halftime-show
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"Over many years and many times of chaos, I’ve identified eight elements that contribute to a spiritually alert, faithfully rooted witness."
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How to Keep Showing Up Without Burning Out
A spiritual elder offers eight reminders to help you stay rooted as you follow your call.
https://sojo.net/magazine/june-2025/how-keep-showing-without-burning-out
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"In many ways, 'The Piano Lesson' is a film about what we pass on from one generation to the next: family heirlooms, deeply embedded wounds, and — as is the case for the Charles family — deeply embedded spirituality."
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‘The Piano Lesson’ Summons a Great Cloud of Witnesses
The new Netflix film reminds us that it is impossible to do the work of the future without knowing the histories that made us who we are.
https://sojo.net/articles/culture/piano-lesson-summons-great-cloud-witnesses
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There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. -Bryan Stevenson
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"The saltiness of tasteless salt cannot be restored, and the bad salt would get thrown out. But not in God’s economy. Here, restoration is always possible."
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Watch for the Morning Star
February reflections on scripture from the ‘Revised Common Lectionary,’ Cycle A.
https://sojo.net/magazine/januaryfebruary-2026/watch-morning-star
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"It's impossible to communicate just how degrading and exhausting these attacks are for queer people."
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Christians Started the ‘Groomer’ Lie — Now We Need to End It
LGBTQ people have spent their lives countering the degrading falsehood that they are pedophiles.
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"We aren’t powerless against the stress and anxiety that following the news can cause. And we can practice engaging the news, rather than just passively receiving it."
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How To Read the News Without Sacrificing Your Mental Health
Staying informed doesn’t have to crush your soul.
https://sojo.net/articles/news/how-read-news-without-sacrificing-your-mental-health
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“The question that guides this book is: What can one learn about the development of evangelicalism by looking at CCM, one of the largest, most profitable forms of mass media produced in the twentieth century?”
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The White, Conservative Faith That Controls Christian Music
Leah Payne’s new book, ‘God Gave Rock and Roll to You,’ tracks how CCM became a genre too often closed off to Black, queer, and other marginalized Christians.
https://sojo.net/articles/opinion-culture/white-conservative-faith-controls-christian-music
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"Friedan's book made women feel like they weren't alone, like they weren't going crazy, like there might be some future for them other than another night at the stove and more tranquilizers." (2011)
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Rereading Feminism
Women's ongoing search, in life and texts, for equality and empowerment.
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As we celebrate Black History Month, we also remember the history of Black migrants.
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Immigration Justice Is Part of Black History
Our theology of loving our immigrant neighbors must continue to be stronger than the structures of white supremacy.
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"Faith teaches us to long for a better world — call it heaven or the brightest timeline. But that longing should not pacify us."
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"The metaverse seems built to circumvent parts of the physical world we want to avoid. In a simulated world, the Christian call to physical works of justice can seem distant."
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Meeting God in the Metaverse
“Throwing up a heart emoji” in the middle of a sermon doesn’t convey the depth of my relationship with Christ.
https://sojo.net/magazine/septemberoctober-2022/culture/meeting-god-metaverse
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"The executive branch’s blitz on intellectual freedom and its punishment of those it labels as political enemies is not a novel strategy, but a blueprint that has often been utilized in churches, Christian organizations, and Christian colleges."
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How Authoritarian Politics Took Over My Christian College
I spent more than a year investigating my alma mater, Cornerstone University. What I discovered explains the Right's strategy to transform the U.S.
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"February’s texts draw us into humble evaluation of where we are and challenge us to a depth of commitment that can’t be faked or flaunted or rushed."
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Watch for the Morning Star
February reflections on scripture from the ‘Revised Common Lectionary,’ Cycle A.
https://sojo.net/magazine/januaryfebruary-2026/watch-morning-star
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“Everyone sees murder, and public officials call it fighting domestic terrorism. Who are they convincing?”
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This Nation’s Violence Is No Longer Private
Once confined to prisons and wars, our worst human instincts are no longer hidden—they’re paraded on city streets.
https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/nations-violence-no-longer-private
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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us. -Thomas Merton, “Thoughts in Solitude” (1956)
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The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice
Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.
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“Unrestrained violence and unthinkable cruelty of federal immigration agents has been captured on video by hundreds ... Federal immigration agents’ actions have been memorialized in scores of court cases. Abuse is happening in public, not private. And there is no shame.”—Vincent Lloyd for
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This Nation’s Violence Is No Longer Private
Once confined to prisons and wars, our worst human instincts are no longer hidden—they’re paraded on city streets.
https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/nations-violence-no-longer-private
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Rosa Parks became known as the mother of the civil rights movement when she strategically refused to give up her seat on a bus in her home of Montgomery. When asked why she did it all, she famously said: “My cup of endurance runneth over.”
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Sermon: Be a Servant
My cup ran over the day my eyes were opened to the many layers between me and the justice my own body has never received.
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"What is fortune? What calamity? / Time alone decides." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, translated 1984)
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Fortune and Calamity
Fortune and calamity, / rushing over us and overpowering ...
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"Our new normal, without intervention, is climate dysfunction. Where some might concede defeat, Saito calls us to grieve and give of ourselves."
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Comics, but Make Them Anti-Capitalist Poetry
Four panels took me from doom to a sacred place, like a numinous telegram.
https://sojo.net/magazine/may-2025/comics-make-them-anti-capitalist-poetry
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"For years, I harbored contempt for the no-fault system — until my training as a pastor exposed me to the realities of domestic violence."
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A Pastor Defends No-Fault Divorce
Why I went from having contempt for this legal process to believing it is a lifesaver.
https://sojo.net/magazine/june-2025/pastor-defends-no-fault-divorce
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"Let the stories be told though the heavens may fall." (2017)
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Forget 'Once Upon a Time'
"Bear witness," the peacemaker says. Say the things that happened.
https://sojo.net/magazine/septemberoctober-2017/forget-once-upon-time
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"If this country is going to be saved from its own worst instincts, it will not be by powerful people who call themselves brave—but by those who act bravely without the guarantee of protection."
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The Cowardice at the Heart of the Trump Administration
One year into Trump's second term, Christians need to get serious about bravery.
https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/cowardice-heart-trump-administration
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Vincent Lloyd on the importance of acknowledging state violence as its visibility expands from the margins of U.S. public culture.
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This Nation’s Violence Is No Longer Private
Once confined to prisons and wars, our worst human instincts are no longer hidden—they’re paraded on city streets.
https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/nations-violence-no-longer-private
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An invitation to consider the "the longest, most often overlooked liturgical season."
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God's Extraordinary Ordinariness
Amy Peeler writes about the charms of Ordinary Time.
https://sojo.net/magazine/januaryfebruary-2026/gods-extraordinary-ordinariness
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Here are five ways to dive in and begin embodying Christ’s righteousness in your relationship to your clothes. (2019)
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Want to Honor God Through Your Clothing Choices? Here’s How
Honoring the labor, expertise, and material resources used to make clothes is also an essential way for people of faith to honor God.
https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/want-honor-god-through-your-clothing-choices-heres-how
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in love / there are no closed doors / each threshold / an invitation / to cross –bell hooks, “in love”
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The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice
Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.
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"It is beautiful when marginalized communities see their stories, languages, bodies, and brilliance reflected in cultural spaces—like a Super Bowl halftime show."
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Bad Bunny's Holy Halftime
Why it’s fitting that Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show takes place during the Christian season of Epiphany.
https://sojo.net/magazine/januaryfebruary-2026/bad-bunnys-holy-halftime
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In light of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) potentially ending soon for over 350,000 Haitian nationals, a perspective on the U.S. failure to act as a Good Samaritan.
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The U.S. Is Playing the Wrong Role in the Good Samaritan Story
For many migrants, Trump has turned a program that was supposed to keep them safe from danger at home into a source of fear and anxiety.
https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/us-playing-wrong-role-good-samaritan-story
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“The fear is turned up as high as it can go in the community,” said Marjory Wentworth, a poet and member of the faith-based coalition G92, which formed last year to support Springfield’s Haitian community.
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As ICE Closes In on Springfield, Here's How Faith Groups Have Prepared
Late last month, word came from the office of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine that it was time to “activate the churches,” as one leader of a faith-based organization put it.
https://sojo.net/articles/news/ice-closes-springfield-heres-how-faith-groups-have-prepared
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"Food is brought to a prisoner on a white plate. / A soldier rests beside a pool of water lilies. / An abyss becomes a table. / The loaf and fish re-create their famous miracle." (Marilyn Robertson, 2003)
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Possibilities
Possibilities.
https://sojo.net/magazine/january-february-2003/possibilities
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"While many churches emphasize the sermon or communion, what if we saw the gathering as a medley of offerings, including music, that creates a sense of unity and healing?"
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Liberation Needs a Soundtrack
With our music and liturgy, the church can help create a sense of unity and healing.
https://sojo.net/magazine/august-2024/liberation-needs-soundtrack
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"In a world where our individual actions don’t seem to change anything, 'Groundhog Day' reminds me why helping others still matters."
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Why I’ve Been Thinking a Lot About ‘Groundhog Day’ Recently
Phil Connors was forced to relive Feb. 2 on an endless loop. But the movie’s message is more hopeful than a recurring nightmare.
https://sojo.net/magazine/april-2025/why-ive-been-thinking-lot-about-groundhog-day-recently
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The Springfield network that has supported Haitians there is moving forward with preparations for what more than one referred to as a potential “siege” by ICE.
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As ICE Closes In on Springfield, Here's How Faith Groups Have Prepared
Late last month, word came from the office of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine that it was time to “activate the churches,” as one leader of a faith-based organization put it.
https://sojo.net/articles/news/ice-closes-springfield-heres-how-faith-groups-have-prepared
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Quotes from Henri Nouwen, Audre Lorde, and Digna Ochoa.
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Fresh off a historical Album of the Year win, Bad Bunny's celebration and centering of Puerto Rico echoes the season of Epiphany's revelation of God "enfleshed, encultured, and embedded in time and place."
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A 1998 piece from Walter Brueggemann on the book of Isaiah and restoration through loss.
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A Story of Loss and Hope
The book of Isaiah is like a great fugue, always advancing to fresh statements, at the same time continually returning to pick up and restate themes already sounded.
https://sojo.net/magazine/november-december-1998/story-loss-and-hope
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"If we waited for absolutely pure motives for doing every good work, we would cease to do any good work." (2020)
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Is All 'Virtue Signaling' a Bad Thing?
Motives are clearly important in the Bible.
https://sojo.net/articles/all-virtue-signaling-bad-thing
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