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"In biblical times, modern times, and Ozian times, people don’t like to be told that they need to change their ways."
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In ‘Wicked’ and the Bible, Prophets Are Scorned for Truth-Telling
Both Elijah and Elphaba are empowered by their strong conviction of what is right and just, even when it ostracizes them.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"In biblical times, modern times, and Ozian times, people don’t like to be told that they need to change their ways."
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"Many of these prayers grapple with what it means to give thanks for God’s abundance in a world that fails to share that abundance equally, on a holiday that is a painful reminder of how poorly European Christian settlers repaid Indigenous hospitality."
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9 Thanksgiving Prayers and Blessings for a More Just World
Need a prayer to offer around the table before the meal? Here you go.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Many of these prayers grapple with what it means to give thanks for God’s abundance in a world that fails to share that abundance equally, on a holiday that is a painful reminder of how poorly European Christian settlers repaid Indigenous hospitality."
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"In communities of faith, abuse often stems from toxic theology that asserts male power, dominance, and authority over women, though domestic violence happens to all people and all genders, in both heterosexual and LGBTQ relationships."
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Here's How Your Church Can Help Survivors of Domestic Violence
Practical ways faith communities can recognize and prevent domestic violence while supporting those experiencing it.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"In communities of faith, abuse often stems from toxic theology that asserts male power, dominance, and authority over women, though domestic violence happens to all people and all genders, in both heterosexual and LGBTQ relationships."
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"Looking at images of bombed-out apartment blocks and plumes of black smoke rising across Ukraine, my thoughts turned to the land."
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During War, the Land Weeps
Despite all the ways we have neglected and terrorized the land, she still loves us and rises up to care for us.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"Looking at images of bombed-out apartment blocks and plumes of black smoke rising across Ukraine, my thoughts turned to the land."
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Zachary Lee interviews Lofty Nathan, the director of ‘The Carpenter’s Son,’ a new Nicolas Cage horror movie that uses the apocryphal ‘Infancy Gospel of Thomas’ as inspiration.
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Unto Us a Scary Child Is Born
‘The Carpenter’s Son,’ a new Nicolas Cage horror movie, uses the apocryphal ‘Infancy Gospel of Thomas’ as inspiration.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Zachary Lee interviews Lofty Nathan, the director of ‘The Carpenter’s Son,’ a new Nicolas Cage horror movie that uses the apocryphal ‘Infancy Gospel of Thomas’ as inspiration.
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"In a choreography of liberation movements that privileges broad, bold gestures, it was the quiet, yet courageous, refusal of Shiphrah and Puah that paved the way toward freedom."
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Holy Resistance Isn’t Just For History’s Winners
The Hebrew midwives’ silent refusal to obey pharaoh provides a model for resistance today.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"In a choreography of liberation movements that privileges broad, bold gestures, it was the quiet, yet courageous, refusal of Shiphrah and Puah that paved the way toward freedom."
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Thank you for this powerful tracing of the intellectual lineage of @sojo.net. It is one of the great honors and educations of my life to walk with the Sojourners community and to meet and talk with Dr. Vincent Harding there. Bless you for this important work 🙏🏽
Sojourners’ Christian racial-justice work drew on voices like Lisa Sharon Harper (@lisasharper.bsky.social), Vincent Harding, and Rose Marie Berger (@rmberger.bsky.social), who wrote about civil rights legacies, policing, and global anti-racism struggles.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Thank you for this powerful tracing of the intellectual lineage of @sojo.net. It is one of the great honors and educations of my life to walk with the Sojourners community and to meet and talk with Dr. Vincent Harding there. Bless you for this important work 🙏🏽
"It’s unjust and counterproductive that our country has such uneven access to affordable child care for children during their most formative years."
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Does the United States Disregard the Health of Its Children?
The church could be a game changer in ensuring that every child in the U.S. is able to get the best start in life.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"It’s unjust and counterproductive that our country has such uneven access to affordable child care for children during their most formative years."
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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. -C. S. Lewis
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The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice
Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. -C. S. Lewis
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An introduction to the December 2025 issue of Sojourners, as we wait for and act towards liberation this Advent.
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From the Editors: Advent Is a Season of Waiting
An introduction to the December 2025 issue of 'Sojourners.'
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
An introduction to the December 2025 issue of Sojourners, as we wait for and act towards liberation this Advent.
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As the holiday season brings us together with our loved ones and their beliefs that may clash with ours, here are some articles that offer us a way to get through.
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Disagree With Your Family About Faith and Politics? These Articles Are for You
It's hard when the people we love hold beliefs we don't share, especially if we find those beliefs harmful or offensive. These articles offer some advice on how listen, talk, and navigate boundaries.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
As the holiday season brings us together with our loved ones and their beliefs that may clash with ours, here are some articles that offer us a way to get through.
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"Brushing off a brutal murder and exonerating the man who ordered it is an example of Trump’s profound callousness about the value of life. It’s not a new stance, and not even uniquely brazen."
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Trump Keeps Showing Us That He’s Not Pro-Life
Pro-lifers held up Donald Trump as their champion. He’s really a showcase for the movement’s greatest failures.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"Brushing off a brutal murder and exonerating the man who ordered it is an example of Trump’s profound callousness about the value of life. It’s not a new stance, and not even uniquely brazen."
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"Not only did I want to learn to ride and care for a horse, I wanted to use language to reach the same lofty and transcendent conclusions. After all, I was the one who was hurt and dirty." (1996)
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Horse and Writer
About 10 years ago, I fulfilled my great childhood wish to own a horse.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Not only did I want to learn to ride and care for a horse, I wanted to use language to reach the same lofty and transcendent conclusions. After all, I was the one who was hurt and dirty." (1996)
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As peace talks for Ukraine continue to develop, we look back on what these deliberations might mean for the country.
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Letters: Is Making Peace In Ukraine Making Peace With Oppression?
Readers respond to Adam Russell Taylor's recent essay on the Christian imperative to make peace.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As peace talks for Ukraine continue to develop, we look back on what these deliberations might mean for the country.
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"So like Shiphrah and Puah, who were also living in a time under an unjust ruler and with limited recourse, we must ask ourselves: How should we resist both individually and socially?"
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Holy Resistance Isn’t Just For History’s Winners
The Hebrew midwives’ silent refusal to obey pharaoh provides a model for resistance today.
sojo.net
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"So like Shiphrah and Puah, who were also living in a time under an unjust ruler and with limited recourse, we must ask ourselves: How should we resist both individually and socially?"
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"Violence is never the answer for Christians, and violence against our righteous protests cannot stop us."
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I Was Arrested Outside of an ICE Facility We Need to Shut Down
Violence is never the answer for Christians, and violence against our righteous protests cannot stop us.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Violence is never the answer for Christians, and violence against our righteous protests cannot stop us."
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Quotes from Mary Shelley, Pauli Murray, and Nelson Mandela.
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Quotes from Mary Shelley, Pauli Murray, and Nelson Mandela.
"While Trump continues to pay ever-flimsier lip service to a narrow vision of what it means to be pro-life, I’m not surprised to see his actions consistently show the opposite," writes Ethan Meyers.
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Trump Keeps Showing Us That He’s Not Pro-Life
Pro-lifers held up Donald Trump as their champion. He’s really a showcase for the movement’s greatest failures.
sojo.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"While Trump continues to pay ever-flimsier lip service to a narrow vision of what it means to be pro-life, I’m not surprised to see his actions consistently show the opposite," writes Ethan Meyers.
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Sojourners magazine (@sojo.net) began in the early 1970s as a small Christian community focused on justice, peace, and anti-poverty activism. From the start, it used journalism -- then through the "Post American" -- to challenge churches to take social issues seriously.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Sojourners magazine (@sojo.net) began in the early 1970s as a small Christian community focused on justice, peace, and anti-poverty activism. From the start, it used journalism -- then through the "Post American" -- to challenge churches to take social issues seriously.
#socialjusticemedia
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New article from @sojo.net is complementing my recent listening to @slate.com 's podcast on the history of @mccdenomination.bsky.social sojo.net/magazine/dec...
The Largest Gay Denomination in the US Is Shrinking. Why?
With Southern working-class roots and Pentecostal flair, Metropolitan Community Churches grew in the 1980s and 1990s. But the good times didn’t last.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
New article from @sojo.net is complementing my recent listening to @slate.com 's podcast on the history of @mccdenomination.bsky.social sojo.net/magazine/dec...
Indigenous cultures in the Americas have observed collective practices of gratitude that have long preceded our legislated day of thanks.
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Giving Thanks for the Sacred Supply Chain
Entering into the holiday season with an Indigenous approach to gratitude.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Indigenous cultures in the Americas have observed collective practices of gratitude that have long preceded our legislated day of thanks.
sojo.net/magazine/dec...
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"It was parrot-green, aqua, magenta, gold.
Is anyone left to learn from you
the art of the Mayan loom?"
(Stacie Smith-Rowe, 1984)
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Is anyone left to learn from you
the art of the Mayan loom?"
(Stacie Smith-Rowe, 1984)
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Refugees/Chiapas
Across three thousand miles / you haunt me with cold hard facts...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"It was parrot-green, aqua, magenta, gold.
Is anyone left to learn from you
the art of the Mayan loom?"
(Stacie Smith-Rowe, 1984)
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Is anyone left to learn from you
the art of the Mayan loom?"
(Stacie Smith-Rowe, 1984)
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In this edition of Sojourners magazine, we're featuring stories about how billionaires undermine quality of life, the legacy of the largest gay denomination in the U.S., and the potential for therapy to transform our legal system.
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December 2025
How billionaires are upending our lives and our economy.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In this edition of Sojourners magazine, we're featuring stories about how billionaires undermine quality of life, the legacy of the largest gay denomination in the U.S., and the potential for therapy to transform our legal system.
sojo.net/magazine/dec...
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