Sojourners Magazine: May 2025
How deaf Christians are worshiping and building community beyond what most churches have to offer.
Features
95% of deaf Americans don’t attend church, but many of us are finding spiritual homes in creative ways.
He wanted to save Philadelphia’s Chinatown — and found himself in the middle of a movement.
What the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker teaches us about belief and unbelief.
Voices
A word from Sojourners’ president to the U.S. vice president.
Maybe the renewed focus on nutrition can be an opening for conversation and collaboration.
What Christians in Malawi don’t understand about Christians in the U.S.
Vision
Four panels took me from doom to a sacred place, like a numinous telegram.
It’s such a shame that Captain America: Brave New World offers only the veneer of substance.
Beth Allison Barr’s Becoming the Pastor’s Wife details just how very untrue the story we’re often told about women in church leadership is.
Three culture recommendations from our editors.
In his new memoir, Good Soil, Chu writes about raising chickens, rejuvenating soil, and searching for meaning.
A poem.
May reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.
My humor exists because of my inner darkness, not in spite of it.
Moving Beyond ‘Whaddya Gonna Do’
As the wizard Gandalf says, “Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
They Came for the Books First
Historical patterns of intolerance from Germany to Israel to the U.S.