Magazine
Sojourners Magazine: February 2018
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Christians turn to history "to learn how others were able to determine faithful discipleship when their contemporaries could not," explain scholars Lori Brandt Hale and Reggie L. Williams in our cover story. In this issue, we re-examine Bonhoeffer not as a caricatured hero, but as a complex figure who struggled to be a disciple of Jesus at a time when the loudest voices in the church swore allegiance to white nationalism. This bespectacled German pastor has much to teach us if we are willing to listen.
Cover Story
Lessons for American Christians from the Confessing Church in Germany
Feature
The gospel, peopled with sick folks, mirrors the imperial world.
The veneer of ethics and moral behavior in the public square can be surprisingly thin.
Last spring, El Salvador banned the mining of gold and other metals—thanks in no small part to the work of the Catholic Church.
In 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer founded an underground seminary of the Confessing Church.
Commentary
Male sexual violence is endemic, ongoing—and church-sanctioned.
News shapes our perceptions of society. Deception incarcerates us.
Anti-Semitic incidents in schools have more than doubled; our curricula must respond.
Culture Watch
Line drawings and sparse prose offer an unusual—but winsome—portal to the holy word.
Tisha M. Rajendra discusses her new book, Migrants and Citizens: Justice and Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration (Eerdmans).
Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times, edited by Carolina De Robertis. Vintage Books.
And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: Stories from the Byways of American Women and Religion, by Adrian Shirk. Counterpoint Press.
Still Christian: Following Jesus Out of American Evangelicalism, by David P. Gushee. Westminster John Knox Press.
What do we do with works of art made by men who do dark and despicable things?
Departments
Columns
Theological integrity more than political partisanship must govern churches' response.
Development does not have to be the death of black neighborhoods.