FROM SOJOURNERS’ OFFICE in Washington, D.C., we can almost hear shattering glass from Elon Musk’s smash-and-grab looting spree of the U.S. Treasury Department and his dodgy gang’s rampage through national security statutes, privacy rights, and the Constitution. Amid the weaponized sturm und drang, people’s lives are dangerously upended. José Humphreys III recalls Jesus weeping over Jerusalem while self-identifying as a hen protecting her little ones; that feels too timely.
For our cover feature, associate editor Josina Guess interviews retired Episcopal priest and author Barbara Brown Taylor. Both live on small farms in north Georgia. Their conversation covers goats, neighborliness, and Good Friday. (Chickens, too.) Jared Stacy picks up Holy Week themes in a provocative essay contrasting Christ’s harrowing of hell, remembered by the church on Holy Saturday, with Trumpian saviorism today.
While we defiantly “sweep up the glass” through heightened political pressure, solidarity with the vulnerable, and the risk of arrest for following Jesus, we know that we are in, as Guatemalan poet Julia Esquivel wrote, a “marathon of Hope.”
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