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Sojourners @sojo.net · 3h
"Horror can create space for us to lament. If we will sit with our monsters, we might find that the calm we have mistaken for peace shields us not from outside terrors, but our own sin." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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I'm a Pastor Who Loves Horror Films. Here's Why
Both horror and Christianity should be unsettling.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 4h
"Jesus’ wounds are not a hindrance to gospel proclamation, they are a gospel proclamation." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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My Disabled Body Proclaims the Gospel
Growing up, most Christians would stare at me, ask what happened, and then apologize as if my disability was their fault.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 5h
"We pray for young women who live with this fear: their bodies, their voices, may soon disappear." sojo.net/articles/hym...
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A Hymn for Places Where War Leads to War
We pray for young children whose first lullabies / were bombs and explosions and wounded ones’ cries.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 6h
"Until churches have rigorous and honest conversations about the ways we name and honor God, we will remain bound to old sins." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Your Church’s Liturgy Can Honor Trans Lives
Many trans Christians worship at the margins. Our liturgies can change that.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 7h
"God’s vision is fundamentally relational and always concerned with the well-being of the most vulnerable." sojo.net/magazine/sep...
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The Upside-Down Kin-Dom
October reflections on scripture from the ‘Revised Common Lectionary,’ Cycle A.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 9h
"The system was rigged so that billionaires got rich, even in a national disaster. People felt preyed upon by the super wealthy." sojo.net/magazine/dec...
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Billionaires Are a National Disaster
Chuck Collins on how income inequality undermines everyone’s quality of life—even the most wealthy.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 10h
"Too often, verses are stripped of their original context, wielded against the poor and oppressed, misunderstood or downright misinterpreted." sojo.net/articles/cul...
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20 More Bible Verses For President Trump to Read
And, ideally, reflect on.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 12h
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 13h
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace. -Thomas Aquinas sojo.net/daily-wisdom...
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The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice
Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 15h
"While we will still have some cool Halloweens in Maryland, I expect them to trend warmer as Earth’s global average surface temperatures show a distinct up-and-to-the-right curve." sojo.net/magazine/sep...
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Haunted by the Heat
Hot Halloween. Cold cider.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 16h
The Christians who scream loudest about protecting children are not always the ones practicing it, writes Tyler Huckabee. sojo.net/articles/cul...
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‘Primetime’ and the Christian Politics of ‘Protecting Kids’
The Christians who scream loudest about protecting children are not always the ones practicing it.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 17h
"I thought of how meaningful my favorite books were to me growing up and only hoped that this one might mean something to a child out there." sojo.net/magazine/nov...
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Storytelling Is Holy. Don’t Feed Kids AI Slop
Developing minds and hearts need the best we can give them.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 01/10/2026
"Lord, let us be the repairers of the breach in our political life; let us be messengers of hope." sojo.net/articles/how...
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How to Pray After Political Violence
Disarm us, O Lord — our minds, lips, hearts, and hands — that we may more perfectly love you.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 01/10/2026
"These people believe that God is on America’s side—their side—and that divine purpose blesses every bomb that is dropped and every blockade that is established against other nations." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Praying the Imprecatory Psalms in the Age of Empire
Almost 20 years ago, Barack Obama's campaign was rocked by three scathing words from his pastor. Today, those same three words feel prophetic.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 01/10/2026
"People from all political backgrounds will be surprised by the power we have right now to reduce gun violence." sojo.net/articles/new...
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She Survived a Shooting. Now She's Disarming Her Christian Critics
Taylor Schumann wants Christians to put the gospel before the Second Amendment.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
"For stories to function as resistance, those telling their stories must determine not only what stories are told, but how they are told." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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The Book of Job Offers an Alternative to Censorship
Legislation like “Don’t Say Gay” limits our ability to hear the stories of those with a right to be heard.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
Faith-based organizers across the U.S. are mobilizing with increasing fervor to protect the integrity of the 2026 midterm elections. sojo.net/articles/new...
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‘We'd Rather Be Prepared’: Faith Leaders Organize Ahead of Tense Midterms
Faith groups are concerned about federal seizures of ballots, an aggressive push to build a national voter-citizenship database, and aggressive executive overreach ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
"The common thread through all this is that ambitious people have learned that the moral urgency of protecting kids from predators is a powerful political lever, and it can be pulled by just about anyone, no matter how interested they are in the actual cause." sojo.net/articles/cul...
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‘Primetime’ and the Christian Politics of ‘Protecting Kids’
The Christians who scream loudest about protecting children are not always the ones practicing it.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
"What if, in this moment, the thing that people need most is to be invited to hope?" sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Hope Is Not Optimism; Hope Is Defiance
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the world’s pain, remember that hope isn’t a feeling but a practice—it’s what you do and what you invite others to join.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
"We must discern the forms of freedom, or unfreedom, offered to us as we read the signs of our historical moment — a time in which the catastrophic is often our daily bread." sojo.net/interactive/...
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Soul Care for Weary Activists
So much of what passes for self-care is commodified. Here’s what we need instead.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
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Adam Russell Taylor @revadamtaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had a wonderful time preaching at the @sojo.net staff chapel service this afternoon. I preached on 1 Samuel 8:1-22 and Matthew 22:15-22, and focused on the importance of holy resistance to unjust and autocratic rulers.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
‘Open your mouth for the one who is voiceless’ — for who in the church today still remembers that that is the least of the Bible’s demands in times such as these? -Dietrich Bonhoeffer sojo.net/daily-wisdom...
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The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice
Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
"Somewhere between the Butt-Head of 1995 and the Princess Peach of 2025, Halloween stopped requiring sleeves and long pants.” sojo.net/magazine/sep...
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Haunted by the Heat
Hot Halloween. Cold cider.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
"Revisiting the long history of Christianity and slavery can challenge assumptions that people bring into discussions about racism in the present." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Reexamining What Early Christians Thought About Slavery
Jennifer Glancy’s ‘Slavery in Christianity’ helps us understand that lying about the past won’t help us understand the present or build a better future.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
"One of the ways in which symbolic capitalists are different from working-class voters is that we really like to focus on identity, on differences between people, we want to foreground those differences." sojo.net/articles/int...
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Is ‘Wokeness’ Worth Saving?
Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi's ‘We Have Never Been Woke’ makes the case that we can't solve the world's problems without changing ourselves.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
"Once you recognize that you’ve been blessed ... the next thing to do is being a blessing to somebody else." sojo.net/magazine/jul...
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Retired, Not Done
Christian baby boomers are joining the “gray tsunami” of elders working for social justice.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
"Empire is not simply a problem that we face today in the 21st century. Jesus and his early followers were also intimately familiar with imperial power." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Empire Is More Than a Political System. It’s a Spiritual Reality
When Christians say “empire,” we are not just describing a structure of domination but contrasting the politics of empire with the kingdom of God.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 30/09/2026
"What happens when the country’s president calls into question the integrity of election results whenever the results don’t favor him?" sojo.net/magazine/aug...
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Preparing Our Spirits for Midterm Elections
What is “crisis contemplation” and why do we need it now?
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
"But we must hold Christians accountable, and attempt to direct them back to the centrality of Christ — not a politician." sojo.net/articles/dea...
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Dear Christians, Please Recuse Yourself
If the president is claiming to be a Christian, then he must be held to the same standards of accountability that the American church seems to have placed on everyone
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
"If the people of your community are out in the streets crying for justice, then the role of the church is to be there with them." sojo.net/articles/new...
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Can Churches Earn the Trust of Young Racial Justice Activists?
Many young activists distrust the church because it has not "boldly condemned its violent past," Tiffany Reid-Collazo said.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
"Just as we are watching the trees let go, we are learning that shedding even the expectations of who we think we need to be will bring freedom." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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If the Earth Keeps Dying and Creating Again, Then Maybe We Can Do the Same
This fall, we can learn a few lessons from the earth as she does her thing.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
"We are all victims and beneficiaries of white supremacy. Many of us carry white supremacy in our DNA. That’s a messy truth to reckon with." sojo.net/magazine/sep...
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Latino Churches and the Rise of Right-Wing Politics
Is “miraculous meritocracy” driving some believers towards a gospel of entitlement?
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
What unites us is some sense of conviction that as followers of Jesus it's unacceptable to stand by while people suffer. -Bob Massey sojo.net/daily-wisdom...
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The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice
Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
"But I believe that we need common spaces, more grounded than the corner Starbucks, to discern right actions in a world faced with crises like climate change and stark economic disparities.” sojo.net/articles/why...
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Why I Made My Teenager Go to Church
In this age when the “spiritual but not religious” seem to have more relevance than churchgoers, it’s easy to wonder why church attendance matters at all. But I believe that we need common spaces,…
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
"Everybody has some power, everybody. I think it’s a cop out sometimes to think that one does not have power." sojo.net/articles/cul...
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‘American Doctor’ Takes You Inside the Interfaith Fight to Save Palestinian Lives
Director Poh Si Teng Opens Up About Her Harrowing Haza Documentary
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
"Neutrality is no longer an option. Unless we fight for liberation, we risk becoming accomplices to the oppression of others and ourselves.” sojo.net/articles/3-w...
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3 Ways to Avoid Burnout in the Justice Fight
It feels as though the more causes we are aware of, the more we feel helplessly caught in the web of injustice.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
"Resistance can take many forms: Dissent, protest, civil disobedience. Sometimes, though, what should be done is simply declining to participate." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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When the Wise Men Refused to Collaborate With Empire
On Epiphany, it is significant to acknowledge that God chose to move this salvation story foward through holy non-collaborators.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
"The struggle for love, power, and justice is not a destination — it is a discipline." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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In Search of a Better Country
In the place of anti-Blackness, we are working for dignity.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 29/09/2026
"If we want society to change, then we cannot just study or merely critique oppression; we must embrace paradigms that look to the promise of a world devoid of viral videos depicting death, along with abolishing the institution causing these deaths: the police." sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Black Like Jazz: Imagining a World Without Police
How jazz taught me to resist videos of memed violence where Black pain is only spectacle.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 28/09/2026
"The reason why that shot is an indictment of us is that the storytelling, the documentation, is left to the Palestinians on the ground in Gaza, and they are living through it as they have to document their own demise." sojo.net/articles/cul...
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‘American Doctor’ Takes You Inside the Interfaith Fight to Save Palestinian Lives
Director Poh Si Teng Opens Up About Her Harrowing Haza Documentary
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 28/09/2026
“Ensuring everyone can exercise their sacred right to vote is a fundamental expression of faith and discipleship.” sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers In a Tense Election Season
Amid anxiety and fear, Jesus’ call to us is the same, regardless of our political leanings.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 28/09/2026
Throughout U.S. history, Christians have too often opted to sanctify the nation’s myths instead of telling the truth. sojo.net/magazine/jun...
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After 250 Years, Christians Owe America the Truth
The church has often amplified the worst American lies. How can we get to a better, more honest future?
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 28/09/2026
"“Instead of solving a problem, doing research, or learning a skill, we let the AI take over for us, possessing us and substituting its flawed approximations for our thinking.” sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Is AI Demonic?
Yes, but not in the way you think.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 28/09/2026
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 28/09/2026
“The grace that I sought was to know that the God of the universe is somehow accessible.” sojo.net/magazine/apr...
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My Spiritual Director Told Me I Needed a Silent Retreat
How the humor and honesty of a 16th-century Spanish nun helped me trust God.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 28/09/2026
"This is why Sojourners exists: Through our print magazine, online coverage, newsletters, and multimedia, we aim to articulate the biblical call to social justice — not in the abstract, but through real stories and ideas rooted in the complexities of our present moment.” sojo.net/articles/opi...
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From Our New Editor in Chief: Why Sojourners Is Here
“I hope this publication continues to forge a collective ‘we’ that rallies around the shared conviction that justice is the heart of Jesus’ message,” writes Betsy Shirley.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 28/09/2026
"Hope is a complex, often contradictory emotion to bear." sojo.net/articles/cul...
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For Joy Oladokun, ‘Hope Is a Heavy Thing’
In their new album, Oladokun blends folk storytelling with Nigerian musical traditions as they search for hope amid political and personal discontent.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 28/09/2026
“God’s presence is not revealed in a list of commandments but in the students, teachers, and faculty of the schools.” sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Legislating the Ten Commandments Isn’t the Same as Keeping Them
What would happen if the Ten Commandments were posted by legal mandate in schools?
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