Abstract submitted. Here's to a return engagement in Galway this summer!

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Sojourners magazine cover, December 2025

Today writers such as Rev. Adam Russell Taylor (@revadamtaylor.bsky.social), Mitchell Atencio (@mitchellatencio.com), and Da’Shawn Mosley continue Sojourners’ long project: reporting on poverty, peace, and dignity through a justice-centered faith lens.

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Activist and author Bill McKibben

Sojourners' immigration coverage elevates stories of undocumented families and churches practicing sanctuary. Environmental work by contributors like Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) has linked Christian ethics with climate action and Indigenous-led land protection.

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Duane Shank (1952-2022), Mennonite peace activist, community organizer, and author

Jeannie Choi, managing editor, New York Times Magazine

In the 1990s, writers highlighted Christian churches addressing poverty—housing, hunger, neighborhood renewal—rooted in grassroots community efforts.

In the 2000s, journalists like Duane Shank and Jeannie Choi brought faith-and-public-life conversations online.

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Sojourners’ Christian racial-justice work drew on voices like Lisa Sharon Harper (@lisasharper.bsky.social), Vincent Harding, and Rose Marie Berger (@rmberger.bsky.social), who wrote about civil rights legacies, policing, and global anti-racism struggles.

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During the Central American human rights crises, Sojourners contributors covered the Christian sanctuary movement, civil conflict, and U.S. policy through on-the-ground reporting.

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Joyce Hollyday

Danny Duncan Collum

Writers like Joyce Hollyday and Danny Duncan Collum helped shape Sojourners’ 1970s–80s voice, connecting discipleship with nonviolence, community life, and advocacy for the poor.

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Rev. Wes Granberg-Michaelson in 2025

Early Sojourners issues—edited by Jim Wallis (@revjimwallis.bsky.social), Wes Granberg-Michaelson, and others—tackled racism, the Vietnam War, and inequality, arguing that Christian faith belonged in movements for justice.

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Sojourners magazine (@sojo.net) began in the early 1970s as a small Christian community focused on justice, peace, and anti-poverty activism. From the start, it used journalism -- then through the "Post American" -- to challenge churches to take social issues seriously.

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Hind's story is tragic, dramatic, and illuminating. Look forward to bringing this film to students across campus.

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