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"Bullies have been beaten before, and if we draw from a belief in love and community, we can beat them again."

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"'Long live all the mountains we moved,' Taylor sings on this classic 'Speak Now' track. 'I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you.'" Safe to assume that the dragon she sings of is the one from Revelation 12:3.

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"People have to find room in their concept of 'church' for something other than the perfect individual experience."

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Bonus: Many of these tips will save your church money, too.

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Why the 1955 film "The Night of the Hunter" has only grown in influence during the last 70 years, writes Abby Olcese.

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"My solution for Christian universities is to put that student transformational journey at the center of everything the university does."

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Director Daniel Goldhaber’s film, 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline,' makes a strong case in the affirmative — even if the activists at its center could care less about being called “terrorists” by the American empire.

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Take a look at the Reconstruct: weekly interviews with people imagining a new future and working toward repair.

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buff.ly/w1URjiM via @sojourners daily Verse & Voice

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"Cisgender Christians don’t need to understand the varied personal experiences of trans folks to stand in solidarity with them. We just need to know that they’re living with boots on their necks and that one of those boots is ours."

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"At Sojourners, we still pledge allegiance to the one who suffered and died at the hands of an unjust state."

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The unique version of evil in this franchise calls to mind the cruelty of empires old and new.

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Past Lives' takes on big questions about the impact of our choices and the nature of destiny and free will, writes Zachary Lee.

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Libraries aren’t just quiet places — they’re frontline spaces in the fight for truth, justice, and collective memory.

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An introduction to the June 2025 issue of ‘Sojourners' by the editors!

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If trauma can be passed down generationally, so too can healing, writes José Humphreys III.

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It was a powerful Pentecost Witness at the Capitol. Faith leaders + communities gathered in song, prayer, & truth-telling. The work isn’t done—but when people of faith unite, hope rises. Let us continue demanding a moral budget for our nation ✊🏽🙏🏽

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"I am not a second-tier child to them, and they are not substitutionary parents to me. I am proud of both my names. I am not one without the other."

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Check out SojoMail - our Thursday newsletter with weekly commentary, news, and reflections through a faith and justice lens from Adam Russell Taylor and other voices at Sojourners.

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I wrote for @sojo.net this week about Walter Brueggemann’s towering legacy and his powerful impact on Sojourners over the last five decades. May we all keep imagining a future that’s more generous and radically more just than empire seeks to impose on us.

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Should pastors acknowledge and apologize for wrongs committed by other clergy? For José Humphreys III, the answer is clear.

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"I’m learning to 'invite' overwhelm, even if it remains an unwelcome guest."

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"As Brueggemann repeatedly pointed out, one of empire’s key projects is to shrink our imagination until the future we imagine doesn’t threaten its agenda."

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"The main concern — other than a complete takeover by machines — seems to be that AI could write term papers for high school kids. ... If I’d had that kind of help in school, I would have earned more than just the one A in typing class."

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"Faith is intimate. And because of this, all our theological searching isn’t just 'faith seeking understanding' (a definition for which Anselm is also famous) but, more so, it’s faith seeking connection."

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"With one eye trained on the newscast, / and Nana’s last cursive letter laid flat before me, / I prayed for normalcy, then looked the other way. / We are not the same people we were four years ago."

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Discernment may help us cultivate resilience, writes José Humphreys III.

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The late theologian's call to imagine a world beyond empire remains prescient.

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"Hell Is a World Without You” captures the messy, hilarious, traumatizing reality of 2000s evangelical youth group life, writes Tyler Huckabee.

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"'Sober Spirituality' allows nuance toward drinking while outlining its real bodily and spiritual dangers."

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From petitions to events to the latest toolkits, SojoAction will make sure you have all you need to engage in the work.

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buff.ly/FqpbGOx via @sojourners daily Verse & Voice

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"We should be, we ought to be, a community in which somebody like Donald Trump doesn’t have the kind of power and sway that he currently does."

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"What does it mean for a multimillionaire to draw from a tradition shaped by those who fled empire altogether?"

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“Send this to your Catholic family members who directly or indirectly send their money to the NRA.”

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"Yet as a Black man, a Christian, and a frequent protester, I still consider myself a staunch supporter of the rule of law. Here’s why:"

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"We make a mistake when we argue that affirmative action policies are primarily about maintaining diversity — an argument that obscures what affirmative action policies were originally intended to address."

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Who is your neighbor?

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A contemplative listener wrestles with the tension between Kendrick Lamar’s radical witness and his material success.

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On 'Hell Gate', queer folk-rock artist Grace Leckey blends Catholic ritual, grief, and righteous rage — from lamppost prayers in Astoria to a Mary who declares: “You can’t pray to me and keep your guns.”

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“If I can’t go to a church where my own kids can feel welcome, what’s the point?”

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"I climbed down the bones of the mountain / through olives blossoming / the vineyards and their baby grapes, the lemons / with their bright skin."

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"Even prominent conservatives such as Tucker Carlson, who interviewed evangelical Palestinian pastor Munther Isaac, have appeared more willing to learn about the oppressive realities facing Palestinian Christians."

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"Brueggemann had a humble spirit, an academic mind, and a poetic soul — but don’t be fooled: He was, above all, a radical."

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"Six months in, Project 2025 remains an innocent-sounding name that doesn’t fully express what it is accomplishing. 'Steaming Pile of Dog Crap' would be a more appropriate title."

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"As Palestinian Christians, we reject the temptation to only care for our kin. We insist that every human being impacted by violence, Israeli or Palestinian, Black or white, is made in the image of God, worthy of dignity and freedom."

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Bad ideology, theology, and legislation related to gender are immoral, anti-scientific, and widely pervasive — and also extremely dangerous.

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"To be queer means resisting the repression of our true selves and the forces that demand we conform to others’ ideas of who we should be."

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