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"So much lying has torn words loose / from what they stood for. Remember, / back when we agreed on their meanings? / I’d say 'honey' for instance, and you could / taste it. Once you said 'freedom' / and I saw doves rising from your shoulders." (Jeanne Murray Walker, May 2020)
Going to Prison in an Age of Corrupt Politics
A poem.
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"This story is not so much about the nature of the unknown as the complicated ways people cope with it." sojo.net/magazine/sep...
How Do You Cope With The Unknown?
Megan Giddings’ ‘Meet Me at the Crossroads’ explores mystery by way of seven “uncontrollable, unkillable and unknowable” doors.
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As ICE continues to fail even its own guidance, a host of faith leaders have emerged to chip away at the agency’s spiritual blockade of those in its custody. sojo.net/articles/new...
ICE Says Detainees Have Religious Freedom. Faith Leaders Don’t See It
At Delaney Hall, a multifaith coalition is rallying to ensure those detained can worship with freedom.
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"How might we fill out this insight today, with Black Power slogans themselves finding new life and new form as activists embrace Black joy, Black excellence, Black rage, Black love, and Black dignity?" sojo.net/magazine/may...
Black Lives Matter Must Lead to Black Lives Thriving
To affirm the value of Black life requires the possibility for Black life beyond survival: life that is rich and creative, flourishing.
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The $147 million price tag to raise the border wall caused a sharp increase in migrant injuries and deaths, but it did not significantly deter border crossings. sojo.net/magazine/aug...
Making Immigration Illegal Ignored the Real Issues
And created new ones.
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"In ['The Dark Knight'], turning every phone in Gotham into a surveillance device was the movie’s moral crucible, the point where we saw Batman had gone too far. 'In Brand New Day,' it’s just Tuesday." sojo.net/articles/cul...
‘Brand New Day’ Makes Peace with the Powers of Surveillance
Walter Wink argued that the Powers are most dangerous when we stop naming them. Marvel's newest Spider-Man movie is proof he was right.
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From @stateline.org: With the near-confirmation of acting U.S. Attorney General, national anti-abortion bans may be one step closer as well. sojo.net/articles/ag-...
AG Nominee Tells Faith Leaders He Will Seek to Restrict Abortion Drug Access
In a conference call with thousands of religious leaders, Blanche said he was committed to achieving policy solutions so that the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision “becomes permanent in every single…
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"Sympathy does not change the structures of injustice. The authentic identity of Christians with the poor is found in the claim which the Jesus-encounter lays upon their own life-style, a claim that connects the word 'Christian' with the liberation of the poor." -James Cone, “God of the Oppressed”
The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice
Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.
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i am a simple man. if your movie has spandex guys punching bad guys in it, i’ll watch it. so i did enjoy this movie, but there was one little thing in it that bugged me on an ethical level and the more i thought about it the more it bugged me.
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"Sure, I saw ugly stories in the youth group trenches, but the true source of tension was larger, more systemic. What was the point of any of this?" sojo.net/magazine/aug...
Reckoning With the Youth Groups That Raised Us
We were meant to live for so much more. But we lost ourselves.
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"Targeting trans people—specifically trans youth and trans women in sports—is not a policy agenda. It is a strategic operation." sojo.net/magazine/jul...
Theological Uncertainty Is a Condition. Abandonment Is a Decision
A letter to Christians on trans neighbors and the authoritarian road map.
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"Cone’s career was dedicated to the development of the idea that God unequivocally identifies with the oppressed and, indeed, that Jesus is Black." sojo.net/articles/opi...
Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody About James H. Cone
Cone helped me realize that, in a world accustomed to Black death, the affirmation of Black life is theological.
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"We have a responsibility to support victims of religious trauma and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse." sojo.net/articles/opi...
How Tia Levings Quit Being a ‘Well-Trained Wife’
Many churches have swept abuse under the rug, but Levings’ former religious community outright endorsed it.
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"How can people who do not reside within academia gain access to the treasure trove of knowledge that is Christian theology?" sojo.net/articles/opi...
Liberating Theology From Its Ivory Tower
Is contemporary theology only for the intellectual one-percenters?
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"We are neighbors and we can rekindle our face-to-face community. These are the things that have held humans together through eternity." sojo.net/magazine/dec...
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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"What 'Brand New Day' accidentally demonstrates, is that the Powers are at their most dangerous not when they're being debated but when they’ve stopped being named at all," writes @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social sojo.net/articles/cul...
‘Brand New Day’ Makes Peace with the Powers of Surveillance
Walter Wink argued that the Powers are most dangerous when we stop naming them. Marvel's newest Spider-Man movie is proof he was right.
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We were promised waves of mercy. Instead we got purity pledges, martyrdom complexes, and a lot of fog machines. sojo.net/magazine/aug...
Reckoning With the Youth Groups That Raised Us
We were meant to live for so much more. But we lost ourselves.
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"The term 'cult' has serious political and societal implications that perhaps don’t apply to SoulCycle fans or fine wine connoisseurs." sojo.net/magazine/jun...
The Temptation to Cult-ify Too Much
Sounds Like A Cult prompts listeners to question what we fanatically follow.
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As the church finds more ways to stand with those oppressed by the state, Jimenez-Reyes said something that echoed in the stories of pastors across the country: “I feel more called than ever.” sojo.net/articles/new...
ICE Is Moving More Quietly. Clergy Resistance Is Not
From Texas to Maine, people of faith are active on every front of resisting deportations and detainment.
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"We forget the land we stand on / and live from. We set ourselves / free in an economy founded / on nothing, on greed verified / by fantasy, on which we entirely / depend. We depend on fire / that consumes the world without / lighting it." -Wendell Berry, “2008, XII” sojo.net/daily-wisdom...
The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice
Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.
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I wrote about the funny, endearing THE LOVE THAT REMAINS for @sojo.net in this month's magazine! I like it when movies love the people they're about in a way that's full and understanding. It's streaming on @criterion.bsky.social.
‘The Love That Remains’ Shows a Director’s God’s-Eye View
Hlynur Pálmason’s drama about the life of an Icelandic family creates a world and characters that he knows completely.
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Glad to have this piece out in @sojo.net about why harsh immigration enforcement is ultimately ineffective, and what we might try instead: sojo.net/magazine/aug...
Making Immigration Illegal Ignored the Real Issues
And created new ones.
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We work hard on every issue but also resonate with Eunice de Souza who noted, “Spirituality is not sentimental effusions in religious magazines.” Go out and claim your soul! sojo.net/magazine/aug...
From the Editors: ‘Hallelujahs and Howls Are Birthed Together’
An introduction to the August 2026 issue of ‘Sojourners.’
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"No person wants to be reduced to a set of ears that simply needs to hear a message." sojo.net/articles/opi...
Preach the Gospel, but Not on a Plane
A new trend among evangelical TikTokers could make your next flight much worse.
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In recent weeks, sanctuary people in Ohio have accompanied Haitians as they face the uncertainty of what is to come. sojo.net/articles/opi...
Immigrants Need Sanctuary. Churches Are Finding New Ways to Offer It
In recent years, faith-based advocates’ sense of sanctuary has expanded.
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"This is nowhere near Spielberg’s first foray into the extraterrestrial, and it’s also not his best." sojo.net/articles/cul...
‘Disclosure Day’ Finds Faith Where Aliens.gov Finds Fear
Steven Spielberg’s film asks what faith might look like in a universe filled with neighbors we never expected.
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"While it’s unlikely that we’ll receive the same cosmic call-out as Job’s companions, we can learn from their examples as we try to comfort those around us." sojo.net/articles/opi...
‘God Has a Plan’ and Other Bad Things To Say to a Grieving Friend
When someone else’s world stops, adjust your schedule to accommodate their pain.
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“Faith teaches us that every human life has dignity. So what is happening to the Cuban people? Families without electricity, hospitals without power, parents who cannot feed their children, is an assault on that dignity.” sojo.net/articles/new...
As U.S. Blockade Squeezes Cuba, Christians Push Solidarity Over Sanctions
In between long blackouts, Cuban Christians ask their U.S. counterparts to remember the embargo “isn’t a faraway policy.”
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