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Sojourners Magazine: April 2024

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A “sliver of reparations” for an erased Black neighborhood in Athens, Georgia gives us a glimpse of what real redress might look like.

Features

The image is a collage with a yellow background with rectangles showing the sides of an apartment building. In the middle is a black and white image of a Black family of seven.

How a local group is raising funds for the erased community of Linnentown, Georgia.

by
Josina Guess
Magazine
Features
The illustration shows a man holding a suitcase and wearing a backpack standing in the frame of an open prison fence gate, looking out. There is a dark sunset behind him.

How my fellow inmate got trapped in an American immigration nightmare.

by
Aaron Edward Olson
The illustration shows a woman who's eyes are closed sitting on a chair, with her hands open and facing up in a receiving posture.

How the humor and honesty of a 16th-century Spanish nun helped me trust God.

by
Laurel Mathewson

Voices

Voices
Grain of Salt
The illustration shows a marble bust of Plato in the back of a closet with clothes hanging in front of it

Unhip virtues are also a part of discipleship, even if they aren't trendy.

by Jim Rice
Voices
From The Editors
The image shows Elvira Arellano, a hispanic advocate for undocumented immigrants. There are monarch butterflies circling her head.

Following Jesus in his joyful mission of liberation for all.

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary
The illustration shows lots of arms with different skin tones reaching out to put their envelopes in a ballot box, with an American flag in the background.

Racial justice and pro-democracy advocates share a common agenda.

by
Maria J. Stephan
The illustration shows army planes dropping bombs with dollar signs on them.

Your tax breakdown: $2,300 for the military and weapons; $10 for homelessness assistance programs.

by
Lindsay Koshgarian
Voices
Columns
The graphic shows a typewriter with words and letter in the background, on a multi-colored, striped canvas.

After 27 years of global climate talks, politicians at COP28 finally named the elephant in the atmosphere.

by
Bill McKibben
The illustration show a patchwork heart on a dark blue background

Our personal formation depends on how we hold grief and journey with it.

by
José Humphreys III
Voices
Eyewitness
The picture shows the legs of a girl standing on the bank of the Rio Grande, holding a Barbie doll by its hair.

To gain asylum in the U.S., migrants have to use a complicated app to get individual appointments, often splitting up families. 

by
Felicia Rangel-Samponaro

Vision

Vision
Culture
The image is of an ipad screen showing the text with Jesus app, which has options for various biblical characters you can talk to.

I put the chatbot on the “Southern Baptist” setting and braced for the worst.

by
JR. Forasteros
The image shows two girls in pink, the one in the front is holding a small electric fan, and the one in the back is holding onto the other girls' arm.

On the rare media depictions of religious parents embracing their children's queerness.

by
Jenna Barnett
The image shows a Nazi commandant smoking in his yard, and the photo was taken through bars on a fence. The man wears a white button up with a black tie.

In The Zone of Interest, a Nazi commandant and his family live a seemingly normal life — next door to Auschwitz.

by
Abby Olcese
Vision
Books
The image shows the cover of the book redeeming violent verses by Eric Seibert, which is kind of a marbled blue and red, on a light red background.

Eric A. Seibert offers ways for church leaders to retell biblical stories to imagine a nonviolent outcome.

by
Brandon Grafius
The photo shows the book "The Quickening" at an angle with a shadow.

The Quickening is a book for anyone who can’t find easy answers to these questions.

by
Avery Davis Lamb
Vision
Poetry

A poem.

by
Joseph Ross
Vision
Living The Word

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

by
Raj Nadella
Vision
H'rumphs

Becoming a passive energy producer costs nothing if you play your cards right.

by
Ed Spivey Jr.