Rose Berger, senior associate editor of Sojourners magazine, will give the keynote address at Lebanon Valley College's baccalaureate service set for 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 8, in Miller Chapel on the college campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The magazine, produced by members of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community known as Sojourners, has a readership of more than a quarter million people.
Musical elements at baccalaureate will include a live performance by graduating senior Cristabelle Braden, whose single "Hope Survives" was recently included among the top 100 songs for download from iTunes.
Berger's column "Hungry Spirit" appears regularly in Sojourners magazine and her essays, reporting, and poetry have appeared in The Huffington Post, Religion News Service, U.S. Catholic, and Radix, among other publications. Her baccalaureate address, "Irresistible Force for Change," will relate the New Testament verse John 3:16 ("For God so loved the world...") to issues of climate change. She will also share from her experiences living as part of the Sojourners Christian community.