Sojourners Magazine: May 2020
Investigative journalist Anne Nelson explains how a secretive cabal of right-wing operatives poisoned talk radio and turned a nation against itself.
Features
How a secretive network convinced Americans they cannot trust East Coast “elites.” An interview with investigative journalist Anne Nelson.
Berlin’s memorials to individual Holocaust victims destabilized me—and my faith to a god of safety.
We think of Thomas as the one who doubted, but his story shows us what faith looks like.
Voices
The climate crisis increasingly poses an existential threat to all of us, and yet the impacts will disproportionately hurt the already marginalized.
Trump likes to tout his economic accomplishments, but what has America gotten in exchange for the 2017 Republican tax overhaul?
Troubled by the teachings of conservative Polish clergy, protesters declare, “We want our church back.”
Perhaps in normal times black voters would take a risk with their ballot. But for Southern black families, the results of this election will mean life or death.
Trump's weaponization of whiteness and all-out assault on America’s working poor stand in stark contradiction to the “culture of life” that Catholics embrace.
The courage of scientists, doctors, and nurses will have been wasted if nothing deeper changes in how we treat one another and the planet.
Vision
Three culture recommendations from our editors.
And LGBTQ inequality, immigration, and other topics not usually mentioned in church.
Singer FKA Twigs points us to the richness of mediating and upending our understanding of Mary Magdalene.
A review of A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change, by E. Sylvia Pankhurst, edited by Katherine Connelly.
A review of This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession, by Cameron Dezen Hammon.
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A.
Funny business by Ed Spivey Jr.
How to Be a Good Neighbor When a Congregation Ends
Three suggestions for how to faithfully accompany a closing church.