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Sojourners Magazine: November 2023

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How can the church reimagine the story of money? Reframing our ideas of need, wealth, and money can help us engage in Christlike generosity while ensuring that everyone gets enough. 

Features

Pictured is a hallway with white walls and barred windows. There is a man in a black pants and a white sweatshirt looking out of the window, with another man standing down the hall looking at him.

Christians in Brazil are trying to create an alternative model — but are their methods coercive?

by
Eléonore Hughes
Magazine
Features
an illustration of hands in various shades of blue passing origami made out of dollar bills to each other, on a red background. The origami is in the shape of a house, a heart, and a shirt.

How the church can embrace an ecosystem of ‘enough for all.’

by
José Humphreys III
The illustration shows the silhouette of a feminine face, radiating outwards from the steeple of a church. There is a dove flying in the background, and a couple sitting with their arms around each other.

Not desiring sex isn’t a failing or a flaw – it opens a window of possibilities.

by
Joey Thurmond

Voices

Voices
Grain of Salt
The illustration shows a pair of cupped hands holding water with the silhouette of a person reflected in it. In the background of the image there are wetlands, fractured by images of house and development.

Does water have inherent worth, or is it only utilitarian?

by Jim Rice
Voices
From The Editors
The illustration shows a white woman with a buzzcut holding a microphone stand. She is wearing a black tank top. Over head are the lyrics "Welcome, O' woman who was afflicted"

Economic sharing in community can be liberating, empowering, and biblically faithful. 

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary
The picture shows a Native American man looking up at some trees. The background is trees and sky.

Why fighting a copper mining project in Arizona also resists colonization.

by
Tim Nafziger
The picture shows a robotic hand holding a Bible on a tan/gold background

Can ChatGPT be righteous?

by
Gretchen Huizinga
Voices
Columns
The illustration shows s transportation vessels on a map of the world.

The “public interest” requires the rapid transition to sun, wind, and batteries — not liquified natural gas terminals.

by
Bill McKibben
The illustration shows five hands reaching in and overlapping.

Paying attention to the “superpowers” among us.

by
José Humphreys III
Voices
Eyewitness

“What I have learned is we Latinos can help people heal their wounds through our traditions.”

by
Sam Dessórdi Peres Leite

Vision

Vision
Culture
A photo shows a white man wearing a suit and a bowler hat looking into the camera seriously

Oppenheimer confronts us with moral questions about irreversible consequences.

by
Abby Olcese
The picture shows three black youth, dressed in colorful outfits and pointing handguns at something off screen.

Three culture recommendations from our editors. 

by
The Editors
The image shows a mural of Sinead O'Connor, with the words "Sinead you were right all along. We were wrong. So sorry."

The timeless wisdom of Universal Mother calls us to be gentle.

by
Josina Guess
Vision
Books
The picture shows a bald Black man with facial hair wearing black glasses in front of a bookshelf, wearing a suit.

J. Kameron Carter explores the disruptive, poetic practice of Black religion.

by
Yanan Rahim Navarez Melo
The picture is of Camille Hernandez's book

Camille Hernandez reinterprets biblical characters through the lens of sexual exploitation.

by
Deirdre Jonese Austin
The image shows the cover of the book "I Have Some Questions for You"

Rebecca Makkai's latest novel reminds us to interrogate what we thought we knew.

by
Caroline McTeer
Vision
Poetry

A poem 

by
Theodore Deppe
Vision
Living The Word

November reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A 

by
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
Vision
H'rumphs