Sojourners Magazine

The death of International Solidarity Movement volunteer Rachel Corrie beneath an Israeli military bulldozer in March sent shock waves through the activist community. In the midst of grief, however, many also hoped that the murder of an unarmed American...

Michelle Shocked--musician and activist extraordinaire--was in Washington, D.C., this winter to take part in Sojourners' roundtable on faith, art, and social activism and to participate in a CodePink peace rally on International Women's Day. She spent...

IN THE RESURRECTION story told in the gospel of John, Mary Magdalene wants Jesus back as she remembers him; failing that, she wants his corpse in a definite place, she wants a grave she can tend. Jesus appears to her--in one of the most devastatingly...

It's morning in Iraq, or, depending on your time zone, afternoon. Then again, it could be late at night, and you're wondering where the day went. But back to our metaphor: A new day is dawning in the Middle East. Totalitarianism is over in Iraq, and...

Let's face it--we live in a country where filmmaker Michael Moore's anti-war outburst at the Oscars got more public attention than did several million Europeans (and a million or so of us) marching in the streets for the same cause. It's sad, but...

In the southeastern corner of Arizona, Cochise County rides the Mexican border. And there's a burr under its saddle. Armed civilian groups are patrolling the international boundary, scouting the rolling grasslands and rough hills for people who...

Chilean folksinger Victor Jara once sang about "working at the beginning of a story without knowing the end." It aptly describes the proposed "Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"--the "road...

The Bush administration has launched an attack on laws and regulations protecting the environment that has most environmental watchdogs on the defensive. One grassroots organization in Tennessee, true to its nature, is anything but. While administration...

The Seven Deadly Sins of classic moral theology still today get their fair share of attention from the Sunday pulpit. Bar one, that is. When was the last time you heard a sermon on gluttony and the peril it brings the soul? If we ever did, we'd probably...

At the Sojourners National Roundtable on Faith, Art, and Social Activism--held in Washington, D. C., in March--Quique Aviles spoke about the role of the artist in bringing about a more just society. Aviles works with Sol & Soul, a D.C.-based arts...