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Sojourners Magazine: July 2024

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How people of faith can defy authoritarianism. 

Features

The image shows a boot trying to step on a white greek pillar, that a bunch of small people are trying to lift up.

How Christians can defend and nurture democracy.

by
Maria J. Stephan
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Features
The image shows a group of people playing a game of dungeons and dragons, and half of the image is animated to show an alternative world.

Christians once saw the role-playing game as satanic. A group of Georgia pastors turned it into church.

by
Rob Hessler
The image shows the pregnant belly of a woman in prison, wearing an orange uniform. She is black.

The United States has the highest female incarceration rate in the world. What does that mean for mothers in prison?

by
Beatrice M. Spadacini

Voices

Voices
Mobilizing Hope
The image shows five people looking towards some sort of beam of light. It is a diverse crew, both in age and race. The people are rendered in shades of blue, green, yellow and orange.

DEI is just one way we can repent of and repair the effects of the systemic sin of racism.

Voices
From The Editors
The illustration shows Topeka K. Sam, a black woman wearing a yellow blazer and with a braid. She is on a pink background with butterflies.

Christians are continually instructed to make alliances across cell blocks and over prison walls.

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary
The image shows a black and white photo of a older white man laughing. He is bald and wearing glasses and a suit and tie.

A look back at Rev. Will D. Campbell’s controversial commitment to people, not causes. 

by
William Browning
The illustration shows red hands in handcuffs that have been broken by a peace dove

Christians would do well to reject the premise that there are throwaway people.

by
Dwayne David Paul
Voices
Columns
The illustration shows a sleeping person, under the stars. It is in black and white.

Jesus responds, “Where is your faith? Why aren’t you awake!”

by
Rose Marie Berger
The illustration show the silhouette of a father holding a child's hand, as he dissolves into butterflies.

Accompanying him as he died taught me about the holy work of presence.

by
Liuan Huska
Voices
Eyewitness
The image shows a sculpture of a weeping person kneeling over a dead body with a display in the back showing faces of people killed by gun violence.

My son was shot and killed in 2017. Five years later, the same thing happened to my husband.

by
Sharon Purnell

Vision

Vision
Culture
The image shows a man and a woman at a table, laughing about something. The man is shirtless with a red bandana on his head, and the woman has a red shawl thing and dark hair.

Wide, spacious shots and sparing cuts give Éric Rohmer's 1986 drama, The Green Ray, its power.

by
Curtis Yee
The image shows a close up image of a girl smiling, she has braces that are red white and blue. There is text that reads "Girls State"

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

by
The Editors
The image is a picture of a priest on a stage with a green robe, with a stained glass window in the back

The recent revival of three plays subtly infused with Catholicism from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.

by
Jim McDermott
The image shows the cover of Kacey Musgraves' album "Deeper Well," in which she is holding a red flower.

Deeper Well is a reminder to slow down, go outside, and appreciate what we have.

by
Greta Lapp Klassen
Vision
Books
The image show the green and blue cover of the book The Exvangelicals, by Sarah McCammon

In The Exvangelicals, NPR’s Sarah McCammon mixes journalism and memoir to wrestle with the ideas that shaped her life.

by
Allison McClain Merrill
The image shows a throne made out of guns on a pink background

The arts help us operate outside of the conditions that fuel dehumanization.

by
Sarah James
Vision
Poetry

A poem.

by
Nicholas Montemarano
Vision
Living The Word

July reflections on scripture from the Common Revised Lectionary (Cycle B).

by
Raj Nadella
Vision
H'rumphs

Just another day preparing for my eventual earthly demise. 

by
Ed Spivey Jr.