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Sojourners Magazine: June 2023

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The Enneagram's potential for building community and creating a more just society.

Features

An illustration of blue disembodied hands pulling white strings in various directions in the shape of the Enneagram symbol. The background is a mixture of bright pastel colors of the rainbow.

Personality type indicators might seem self-centered, but they can be powerful tools for doing justice in our communities.

by
Josiah R. Daniels
Magazine
Features
A vibrant illustration. On the left, Zechariah is portrayed with brown skin, a white beard, and yellow robes. The center shows hands reaching up. Among them, there's a scroll, bird, and three women hugging. To the right, there's a city on a tall mountain.

The prophet Zechariah calls people of faith to ‘speak the truth’ in the face of today's injustices.

by
Robert L. Foster
A comic book illustration of a male superhero in purple tights, a purple cowl, and red gloves. He's holding a woman in his arms in a city park as a police helicopter circles a tower in the background, where an explosion occurs on an upper floor.

We need our superheroes to save those trapped by the injustice of incarceration.

by
Mitchell Atencio

Voices

Voices
Grain of Salt
An illustration of a tan wall decorated with pieces of Palestinian art. From left to right, there's a painting of a woman holding up the Palestine flag behind her, a map of historic Palestine, a framed key, a white tapestry with complex red patterns, etc.

The Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C., is a space for Palestinians to express the truth of their history and people.

by Jim Rice
Voices
From The Editors
Illustration of Pamela R. Lightsey, a black lesbian Methodist elder. She has a shaved head and is smiling with red lipstick. She wears a black shirt, red earrings, and red bangles with black stripes. She is framed by a rainbow circle and yellow lilies.

Our stories can profoundly influence how we see the world — and make it a more just place.

by The Editors
Voices
Commentary
An illustration with a bright yellow background of a white robed arm with blue outlining. The hand thereof is holding the lower portion of a cross that's uneven and bendy in shape.

 

The political Zionist movement has little to do with Christianity — and it’s a threat to both democracy and religious freedom.

by
Joe Roos
A realistic illustration of a pale blue blank check set on top of a teal background.

Religious leaders argue that increased U.S. funding and military presence stoke human rights abuses and regional instability.

by
Eric Stoner
Voices
Columns
A front-view illustration of a church with an open door and steeple with a cross on top. The church is made out of a collage of red and blue American symbols like dollar bills, a cowboy's hat and boots, sports balls, the American flag, stars, etc.

A recent survey examines the driving forces underpinning this belief system.

by
Bill McKibben
A simplified illustration of the Earth drawn in different shades of green. Hearts are drawn on different continents and arrows circle and surround the globe. Houses and plants are drawn just below the world.

“I’m learning not to let my own views keep me from interacting with another human being whose narratives about the world are so different from my own.”

by
Liuan Huska
Voices
Eyewitness
A family photo of trans Christian Sid High's family sitting on a couch in their living room as they look off to the side. Sid's dad sits on the left; Sid's mom sits in the center with his younger sister in her lap; Sid sits on the right.

“Trying to strip people's rights is the opposite of love, and the opposite of what Jesus would do.”

by
Sid High

Vision

Vision
Culture
Garrett Turner is dressed in a black suit playing an electric guitar as Ike Turner in the musical 'TINA: The Tina Turner Musical.' A black man in a blue suit is playing the keyboard in the background, where both men are flanked by a purple stage curtain.

Actor Garrett Turner on drawing a clear line between himself and the broken man he portrays.

by
Josina Guess
Joel (actor Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (actress Bella Ramsey) from 'The Last of Us' HBO series are standing side by side on the roof of a neglected building with their arms leaning on a brick wall covered in foliage.

From Revelation to The Last of Us, our end-time imaginings can show us who we are — and who we could be.

by
JR. Forasteros
Julie from 'The Eternal Daughter' (Tilda Swinton) is seen from a side profile staring out a window, where you can see her image reflecting in the glass and a view of a forest in the background.

The Eternal Daughter shows us how we can better carry unwelcome burdens.

by
Abby Olcese
Vision
Books
The cover for the podcast 'Sounds Like A Cult' is cast against a gray-green backdrop. The cover is an illustration of an open human mouth superimposed over a multi-colored background. The podcast's name is in cursive, positioned between the teeth.

Sounds Like A Cult prompts listeners to question what we fanatically follow.

by
Zachary Lee
Rebecca Shearer (actress Sienna Miller) wears a red shirt and brown shorts with a bandana around her neck while leaning against a tree in a forest and looking up to the sky in the 'Extrapolations' Apple TV series.

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

by
The Editors
An image of Beth Moore's memoir 'All My Knotted-Up Life' against a pink backdrop. The cover shows her as a child posing with her family as they stand behind and to both sides of an old navy and white van outside near a forest.

Beth Moore discusses trauma and suffering with both candor and restraint in her new memoir.

by
Liz Bierly
Vision
Poetry

A poem

by
Elisabeth Ivey
Vision
Living The Word

June reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A

by
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
Vision
H'rumphs

How to keep going and become a glorious serotonin vampire.

by
Beth Cooper-Chrismon