Recently added articles from Sojourners Magazine:
Overheard.(COMMENTARY)
Jun 01, 2009; ... "This presidency will be dedicated to Monsenor Oscar Romero." ...
Having a strong showing of women in high places is distinct. (Between the Lines).
Jun 01, 2009; ... "Having a strong showing of women in high places is distinct from ...
Overheard.(COMMENTARY)
Apr 01, 2009; ... "The God of peace is never ...
Over heard.(COMMENTARY)
Mar 01, 2009 ... "We have no strategic plan. We never had one." --Unnamed "senior military ...
City hires ethicist for hard choices.(BUDGET)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Like many U.S. municipalities, Alexandria, Virginia, is facing financial cuts. But in an unusual move, city officials hired ethicist Michael A. Gillette to assist them in approaching the city's budget as a moral document. "In times of fiscal stress, localities are forced to say 'no' to ...
Inside story.(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2009 ... As the son of Muslim immigrants from India, Eboo Patel learned to balance multiple identities growing up in the suburbs of Chicago. As he shared during a visit to Sojourners' office last year, one of those identities was often "Other." "I went to a birthday party when I was in ...
Fine timing.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Feb 01, 2009; ... Last night in the theology class I teach on peace and justice, I said there were better ways than military intervention to solve the problems in Darfur and Congo, and mentioned Liberia and Sierra Leone as evidence. The December Sojourners arrived today, with John Prendergast's fine ...
A dear friend gone.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Feb 01, 2009; ... We just adopted two little girls, and I anxiously pored through the TV guide for the time(s) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood would be on. I looked forward to joining them in watching Fred peacefully lead them through storylines and field trips that were fascinating to me as well as to our ...
End, not reduce, abortion.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Feb 01, 2009; ... I was deeply disappointed in Sojourners' guidance on voting in regard to abortion ("Principles and Policies for Christian Voters," December 2008). Reduce abortion, you say? We were encouraged to end genocide, end capital punishment (and rightly so), but only to reduce abortion. We must ...
Good medicine.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Feb 01, 2009; ... I enjoyed Ed Spivey Jr.'s dry sense of humor in his video about the economy ("It's All His Fault," December 2008 Web ...
Beyond the moment.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Feb 01, 2009; ... Thanks for the work you do. There are plenty of good ministries in the world, for which I am grateful. A few are great ministries because they speak to, into, and beyond the moment--all from their best effort at understanding biblical history and content, church ...
Recycling benefits.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Feb 01, 2009; ... Sojourners, thank you, by God's grace, for what you do! In a God coincidence, many years ago a friend had recycled a copy of your magazine at the local library. I picked it up, read it, and was amazed. ...
The new face of Islam.(HEARTS & MINDS)
Feb 01, 2009; ... Here's a principle: Religious extremism is best undermined from within, rather than smashed from without. There is now ample evidence that the latter strategy does not work and often makes things worse. For example, both right-wing Christians and zealous political ...
Green justice: how to fight poverty and global warming.(ECONOMICS)
Feb 01, 2009; ... President Obama is walking into some large problems--including war, climate change, and poverty here and abroad--which he had very little to do with, but is still expected to fix. Climate change is one that some might suppose becomes less important during an economic downturn. In fact, the ...
Overheard.(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2009; ... "There is nothing that the economy needs more right now than very large deficits .... If [people] manage to persuade their ...
A time to act: April 2009's "Mobilization to End Poverty" is a chance for real change.(ANTI-POVERTY)
Feb 01, 2009; ... At a forum broadcast live on CNN last spring, Sojourners editor-in-chief Jim Wallis asked then-Sen. Barack Obama if he would commit to the goal of cutting poverty in half in 10 years. Sen. Obama responded, "I absolutely will make that commitment. Understand that when I make that ...
Building bridges: coming together to heal U.S. relations with the Muslim world.(PEACEBUILDING)
Feb 01, 2009; ... What will it take to improve America's standing in the Muslim world over the next four years? With conservatives and liberals calling each other Islamophobes and apologists, it often seems like there's nothing but disagreement about how to answer this question. But last ...
A broken system.(STATS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2009 ... For the first time in history, according to a recent study by the Pew Center on the States, more than one in every 100 adults in the U.S. is in jail or prison. There has not been, however, a correlating decrease in crime. "The education system particularly for inner-city youth Where the ...
"Things are changing, changing, changing.".(Between the lines)(Brief article)(Photograph)
Feb 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: "THINGS ARE CHANGING, CHANGING, CHANGING," 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper told CNN. "And I look for more change now that it's the first black president, in a victory of faith over fear. So, don't you know that's quite something to be proud of." ...
The devil down in Georgia.(SOA WATCH)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2009; ... On the chilly morning of Nov. 23, the names of thousands of people killed as a result of U.S. support for wars in Latin America were sung from a stage positioned in front of the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. The SOA (renamed in 2001 the Western Hemisphere Institute for ...