New and Noteworthy: A Primer on Activism, ‘Nice Churchy Patriarchy,’ and More

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

The image shows the cover art for the podcast "Weight For It" which features a bald Black man with a beard and glasses smiling and laughing in a teal shirt.
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Bodies of Thought

In the podcast Weight For It, host Ronald Young Jr. explores “the nuanced thoughts of fat folks, and of all folks who think about their weight all the time.” These vulnerable, reflective episodes carefully address how fatness intersects with topics such as gender and health care. Radiotopia

 

An Activism On-Ramp

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too is an accessible guidebook for people who care about justice. Author Ijeoma Oluo profiles diverse organizers, writing that “if you want to be involved in this revolution, there is space for you.” Penguin Random House

Confounding Fathers

In Nice Churchy Patriarchy, writer and former college campus minister Liz Cooledge Jenkins dissects the patriarchal worldview that shapes Christian communities—sometimes overtly, often subtly—and suggests “some ways we might, together, disrupt its power.” Apocryphile Press

This appears in the February/March 2024 issue of Sojourners