https://sojo.net/feeds/articles en https://sojo.net/about-us/news/without-johnson-amendment-protections-churches-can-be-exploited-politicians-donors The entire nonprofit sector risks being corrupted and captured by partisan politics and polarization. Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:55:30 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/without-johnson-amendment-protections-churches-can-be-exploited-politicians-donors https://sojo.net/about-us/news/chaotic-demonstrations-erupt-across-us-catholic-experts-counsel-nonviolence-0 Adam Russell Taylor, a Baptist minister and president of Sojourners, made the "Moral Budget Vigil" participants a promise: "We are going to make some holy noise today, OK?" Taylor was followed by dozens of speakers — some with a prophetic word; others offering pertinent verses of Scripture — occasionally punctuated by hymns. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:24:13 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/chaotic-demonstrations-erupt-across-us-catholic-experts-counsel-nonviolence-0 https://sojo.net/about-us/news/jim-wallis-and-moral-budget-june-10th-procession-capitol-0 Rev. Jim Wallis is the founder of Sojourners Magazine and the Sojourners Christian Community, and has been at the forefront of bringing together faith and social justice activism for decades, advocating for issues such as racial equality, poverty alleviation, peace, and environmental stewardship as a preacher, teacher, best-selling author, and theologian. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:12:39 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/jim-wallis-and-moral-budget-june-10th-procession-capitol-0 https://sojo.net/about-us/news/standing-christian-values-us-evangelicals-keep-faith-trump But the person behind many of the federal government cuts, Elon Musk, head of the so-called "department of government efficiency", called USAID a "criminal organization" and said that it was "time for it to die". Adam Russell Taylor, the president of Sojourners, a Christian social justice group, said such remarks remind him of "the prophet Isaiah, who forewarned us that woe to you that call evil, good, and good, evil". The administration is “making these allegations that aren’t backed up by evidence or proof. And they disparage this whole body of work that has created such goodwill Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:57:44 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/standing-christian-values-us-evangelicals-keep-faith-trump https://sojo.net/about-us/news/springtime-moral-courage The resounding vigil chant directed toward Congress each week is simple: “What time is it?” asks Sojourners’ the Rev. Adam Taylor. “Time for moral courage,” we all chant back. Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:48:48 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/springtime-moral-courage https://sojo.net/about-us/news/white-house-considers-abandoning-foreign-aid-faith-groups-say-they-can-t-do-it-alone-1 The next day, religious demonstrators organized by Sojourners and other groups will host a separate event on the Hill focused on foreign aid as part of a weekly faith-based demonstration. Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:48:12 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/white-house-considers-abandoning-foreign-aid-faith-groups-say-they-can-t-do-it-alone-1 https://sojo.net/about-us/news/s6-ep-10-march-madness-department-education-school-vouchers-and-supreme-court-preview You are invited to join Faithful Witness Wednesdays throughout the month of March, as people of faith gather on the Capitol grounds to call on Congress to take action. Sign up for the March 19 or the Mach 26 events, which are organized by Sojourners and the Washington Interfaith Staff Community. Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:46:57 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/s6-ep-10-march-madness-department-education-school-vouchers-and-supreme-court-preview https://sojo.net/about-us/news/white-house-misjudged-support-usaid-sojourners-leader-says “USAID was chosen as a first agency to target because there was a belief that most Americans don’t know what USAID does or support these development and humanitarian programs,” Taylor said during a March 12 “moral courage” vigil convened by numerous interfaith advocacy organizations. Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:35:21 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/white-house-misjudged-support-usaid-sojourners-leader-says https://sojo.net/about-us/news/faith-leaders-push-back-against-trump-cuts-and-what-they-see-erosion-democracy NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rev. Adam Russell Taylor of Sojourners, a Christian social justice group that's holding weekly vigils on Capitol Hill in protest of the Trump administration. Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:02:03 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/faith-leaders-push-back-against-trump-cuts-and-what-they-see-erosion-democracy https://sojo.net/about-us/news/christian-groups-kick-lent-letters-objecting-trump-moves-budget-and-immigration Also among the signers to the leaders’ letter are the Rev. Teresa Hord Owens, general minister and president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the U.S. and Canada .... the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners; and Richard Santos, president and CEO of Church World Service. Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:28:37 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/christian-groups-kick-lent-letters-objecting-trump-moves-budget-and-immigration https://sojo.net/about-us/news/boycotts-accompany-prayer-faith-leaders-prepare-lent-protest The Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, the national social justice advocacy organization, is partnering with interfaith leaders from more than 20 denominations and religious groups to pray in the shadow of the Capitol on Wednesdays from Ash Wednesday through the end of March. Besides praying for an end to attempts to freeze federal grants, dismantle agencies and threaten birthright citizenship, the gatherings will be “calling on Congress to protect its powers and to advance the common good,” said Taylor. Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:31:21 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/boycotts-accompany-prayer-faith-leaders-prepare-lent-protest https://sojo.net/about-us/news/sojourners-helping-churches-respond-trump-admin-move-allow-ice-raids-churches The progressive Christian social justice advocacy organization Sojourners is helping churches respond after a recent Trump administration decision to allow illegal immigration enforcement at houses of worship. Sandy Ovalle, Sojourners' senior director of campaigns and mobilizing, told The Christian Post that her organization is working with Latino church leaders, pastors and others as part of ' a network of churches that we've created for this time.' The hope is to be a resource to immigrant churches, where the pastor or members of their churches are immigrants. Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:51:06 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/sojourners-helping-churches-respond-trump-admin-move-allow-ice-raids-churches https://sojo.net/about-us/news/path-best-resistance-faith-rooted-messaging-would-help-build-broader-political-support Standing in solidarity with communities and individuals being targeted by President Trump and the MAGA movement involves giving time and money to organizations that are working to block the administration’s most egregious and often illegal actions in the courts and to efforts to organize nonviolent and strategic resistance to these harmful policies (such as Democracy Forward, Sojourners, Public Citizen, and so many others). Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:03:29 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/path-best-resistance-faith-rooted-messaging-would-help-build-broader-political-support https://sojo.net/about-us/news/how-resist-elon-musks-hostile-takeover-and-avoid-donald-trumps-broken-status-quo-trap In an attempt to gain some clarity on Trump’s return to power, these historic and tumultuous first weeks of his reign and the connections between the country’s democracy crisis and moral crisis, I recently spoke with Rev. Adam Russell Taylor. He is president of Sojourners and author of “A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community.” Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:59:17 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/how-resist-elon-musks-hostile-takeover-and-avoid-donald-trumps-broken-status-quo-trap https://sojo.net/about-us/news/potential-ice-raids-lead-new-jersey-faith-leaders-offer-support-migrants Before President-elect Trump takes office, faith leaders in Newark are preparing for potential raids targeting migrants and their families. Sojourners Senior Director of Campaigns and Mobilizing, Sandy Ovalle, spoke about what she and others are doing to help migrant families prepare for what lies ahead. “Family preparedness plans like what would happen if a raid comes into your work or if some on comes knocking into your place. Do you have people that could look for your children? Do you have all of your documents put together.” Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:14:47 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/potential-ice-raids-lead-new-jersey-faith-leaders-offer-support-migrants https://sojo.net/about-us/news/chaplains-polls-prayers-faith-leaders-mark-historic-election-day “Most of the poll chaplains, all volunteers for Faiths United to Save Democracy, an organization convened by Williams-Skinner, Wallis and Sojourners President Adam Russell Taylor since the last presidential race to keep peace at the voting sites, reported a relatively problem-free election so far.” Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:12:57 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/chaplains-polls-prayers-faith-leaders-mark-historic-election-day https://sojo.net/about-us/news/poll-chaplains-help-keep-peace-polls-across-10-states “Organized by Faiths United to Save Democracy (FUSD) — a nonpartisan and multi-faith organization — pastors, imams, rabbis and clergy known as “poll chaplains” and “peacekeepers” are present at polling stations in 10 states.” Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:09:45 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/poll-chaplains-help-keep-peace-polls-across-10-states https://sojo.net/about-us/news/poll-chaplains-national-mission-protect-sacred-right-vote “The effort is part of the campaign’s broader efforts to uphold the integrity of the American democratic process through an interfaith coalition led by Sojourners, a national faith-based media and advocacy organization; Skinner Leadership Institute in Baltimore; and the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University.” Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:06:52 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/poll-chaplains-national-mission-protect-sacred-right-vote https://sojo.net/about-us/news/dr-king-understood-voting-rights-arent-political-they-are-spiritual Source: Newsweek | Adam Russell Taylor I grew up in the shadow of the civil rights struggle believing that my generation inherited the unfinished business of the civil rights movement. I failed to imagine the degree to which the struggle for voting rights would become part and parcel to that unfinished business. The health and future of democracy are facing their greatest test since the height of that struggle. ... Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:47:20 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/dr-king-understood-voting-rights-arent-political-they-are-spiritual https://sojo.net/about-us/news/important-parts-martin-luther-king-jrs-legacy-are-often-glossed-over ... The Reverend Adam Russell Taylor of Sojourners, a Christian social justice group, says the president was putting his finger on how commonly people wrap themselves in Dr. King's legacy for political expedience. ... Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:41:01 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/important-parts-martin-luther-king-jrs-legacy-are-often-glossed-over https://sojo.net/about-us/news/christians-have-role-play-defending-us-democracy Source: Center for American Progress | Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons How should Christians engage in politics? That’s a difficult question to answer in 2022, as white Christian nationalists are garnering so much attention in society and the media. But there are positive roles for Christians to play in defending U.S. democracy and building a just, inclusive society. The Center for American Progress interviewed one of the country’s most influential Christian leaders, the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, in December 2021 via email in an effort to understand more about Christian political engagement at Wed, 05 Jan 2022 11:34:33 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/christians-have-role-play-defending-us-democracy https://sojo.net/about-us/news/why-38-pastors-are-considering-quitting-ministry Source: The Dallas Morning News | Benjamin J. Dueholm ... Melissa Florer-Bixler, a pastor writing in Sojourners, has a theory: pastors are joining the “Great Resignation,” burned out and overmatched by the ingrained attitudes and financial struggles of congregations. Despite the space in our national discussion taken up by huge churches and their leaders, Florer-Bixler points out that most churches in the U.S. are small. Their clergy are not famous or prominent. And many of those clergy, especially the younger ones, are experiencing “the incompatibility between the teachings of Jesus Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:14:13 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/why-38-pastors-are-considering-quitting-ministry https://sojo.net/about-us/news/congress-must-invest-american-families-and-communities Source: Baptist News Global | Adam Russell Taylor The United States Congress is currently considering a series of bold investments in American families and communities that will better enable all of us to pursue our God-given potential while protecting the most vulnerable in our society. As a Baptist pastor and as a father, I urge our elected leaders to support these critical investments, which are both a moral and prudential imperative. ... Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:38:27 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/congress-must-invest-american-families-and-communities https://sojo.net/about-us/news/vote-over-muslim-nominated-biden-stalled-gop-boycott Source: The Washington Post | Joseph Hammond ... A coterie of faith-based groups, including African American Ministers In Action, Sojourners, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and the National Council of Churches, have also accused the GOP of “anti-Muslim animus” for its opposition to Syed. ... Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:45:04 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/vote-over-muslim-nominated-biden-stalled-gop-boycott https://sojo.net/about-us/news/americans-are-surprisingly-supportive-religion-school Source: Deseret News | Kelsey Dallas ... There’s a budget showdown brewing in Congress, and some faith leaders are urging policymakers to focus on its moral implications. Now is the time for Congress to acknowledge how many American families are suffering and embrace the bold solutions that will honor “the inherent dignity of people shaped in the image of God,” wrote Lauren W. Reliford for Sojourners. ... Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:51:28 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/americans-are-surprisingly-supportive-religion-school https://sojo.net/about-us/news/more-americans-identify-evangelical-after-trump-years Source: Fox News | Tyler O'Neil ... The Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, a left-leaning Christian organization, lamented that the Pew poll suggests Americans think of their faith in political terms. "I think what this data illustrates is the extent to which White evangelicals increasingly think of their faith in political terms as opposed to core theological or religious terms," said Taylor, who just published the book "A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community." "We should resist the temptation to have our faith co-opted by politicians. Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:33:28 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/more-americans-identify-evangelical-after-trump-years https://sojo.net/about-us/news/timely-new-book-bold-call-reimagined-beloved-community Source: Associated Press Broadleaf Books is excited to announce the release of a timely and important book from Sojourners President, Rev. Adam Russell Taylor. In his new book, Taylor shows a way out of the fear and hatred that divides our country by replacing polarization with redemptive patriotism and drawing on civic and spiritual values to complete the unfinished business of the civil rights movement. Part history lesson, part policy prescription, part moral reckoning, A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community, meets this moment of political polarization and Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:29:08 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/timely-new-book-bold-call-reimagined-beloved-community https://sojo.net/about-us/news/faith-groups-accuse-gop-senators-apparent-anti-muslim-animus-stalling-biden-nominee Source: Religion News Service | Jack Jenkins ... Signers include a diverse array of faith groups, including the Religious Action Center and Union for Reform Judaism, African American Ministers In Action, Sojourners, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, National Council of Churches, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, Church World Service and Friends Committee on National Legislation. ... Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:48:34 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/faith-groups-accuse-gop-senators-apparent-anti-muslim-animus-stalling-biden-nominee https://sojo.net/about-us/news/united-church-christ-takes-race-and-lgbtq-issues-consensus-reigns Source: The Washington Post | Emily McFarlan Miller ... At this year’s biennial meeting — part business meeting, part worship service, part “family reunion,” as Blackmon described it — keynote speakers include Sikh social justice activist and filmmaker Valarie Kaur and the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, the new president of Sojourners. ... Thu, 08 Jul 2021 11:30:31 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/united-church-christ-takes-race-and-lgbtq-issues-consensus-reigns https://sojo.net/about-us/news/southern-baptist-convention-can-dodge-schism-not-its-own-history Source: CNN | Diana Butler Bass ... The seventies were the high-water mark of progressive evangelicalism, a social activist brand of conservative Protestantism (represented by figures like Jim Wallis and Sojourners magazine) that was widely popular, especially among younger evangelical Christians who opposed to the Vietnam War, embraced feminism and civil rights and sought to address economic injustice. ... Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:32:03 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/southern-baptist-convention-can-dodge-schism-not-its-own-history https://sojo.net/about-us/news/white-house-partnering-faith-communities-encourage-covid-19-vaccinations Source: Fox News | Brooke Singman ... The White House is also partnering with Faiths4Vaccines—a multi-faith coalition of 46 faith-based organizations including the Christian Community Development Association, the National Association of Evangelicals, the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, Sojourners, the National Council of Churches, the Union for Reform Judaism, the National African American Clergy Network, the Catholic Health Association, the Islamic Medical Association of North America, and more. ... Mon, 07 Jun 2021 11:15:10 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/white-house-partnering-faith-communities-encourage-covid-19-vaccinations https://sojo.net/about-us/news/one-year-after-george-floyds-murder-faith-leaders-continue-call-racial-reckoning Source: The Washington Post ... Howard University Divinity School and Sojourners, a Christian mobilizing and media organization, were already months into a new “ Theology and Racialized Policing Cohort Program ” when Floyd was killed. About 45 participants found themselves immediately putting into practice what they were learning. “Several of our folks were speakers at protests and were articulating a theological voice in the midst of this time calling for accountability and transparency and justice,” said the Rev. Terrance McKinley, director of racial justice and mobilizing for Wed, 26 May 2021 10:13:40 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/one-year-after-george-floyds-murder-faith-leaders-continue-call-racial-reckoning https://sojo.net/about-us/news/we-cant-rebuild-us-until-we-support-families Source: The Washington Post | Jim Wallis The COVID-19 pandemic was revelatory; that’s a term that speaks to our nation’s spiritual transformation more than it does to our politics. In response to the crisis, President Joe Biden has brought forward three transformative bills: The American Rescue Plan, passed by Congress in March; the American Jobs Plan; and the American Families Plan. We will get to the important particulars of the bills, but we must also go deeper than the specifics, which will change as the debate goes on. ... Thu, 20 May 2021 14:08:38 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/we-cant-rebuild-us-until-we-support-families https://sojo.net/about-us/news/hope-10-christian-reactions-derek-chauvin-s-conviction-murder-george-floyd Source: The Christian Post | Leonardo Blair ... Christian social justice organization Sojourners said in a statement: "Today, nearly one year after the death of George Floyd, a jury formally announced that his killer — former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin — is guilty of all charges. Sojourners founder Jim Wallis and Sojourners President, the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, gave the following joint statement in response. ... Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:35:38 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/hope-10-christian-reactions-derek-chauvin-s-conviction-murder-george-floyd https://sojo.net/about-us/news/americans-still-have-faith-god-more-us-have-lost-our-faith-religion Source: The Miami Herald | Leonard Pitts Jr. ... Granted, the 1980s was hardly the first time — or the last — people allowed their politics to be informed by their faith. As the lives and ministries of Jim Wallis, Jeremiah Wright, William Barber II and Martin Luther King, Jr. amply attest, the progressive left has often done the same thing. ... Mon, 05 Apr 2021 11:11:00 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/americans-still-have-faith-god-more-us-have-lost-our-faith-religion https://sojo.net/about-us/news/we-have-chance-redeem-voting-rights Source: Religion News Service | Jim Wallis and Barbara Williams-Skinner There’s a preacher in the house — or at least, in the Senate. “A vote is a kind of prayer — to God.” That’s what Sen. Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first Black senator, said in his first floor speech in the Senate chamber. Warnock is also senior pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once served. As Warnock made clear, voting rights is not just a political issue. It is also a faith issue — a spiritual test of whether we see in others the image of God, and thus extend Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:26:11 EDT Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/we-have-chance-redeem-voting-rights https://sojo.net/about-us/news/time-some-good-news-poor Source: Religion News Service | Jim Wallis It isn’t often that a bill comes before Congress that is principled, pragmatic and popular. The American Recovery Plan, which lays out a bold and significant investment in the fight against COVID-19, is all three. It addresses the deep inequities of suffering from the pandemic, including the racial and wealth disparities, meets immediate and urgent needs of the moment and is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:07:05 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/time-some-good-news-poor https://sojo.net/about-us/news/okla-death-row-inmate-subject-prayer-rally-get-second-clemency-hearing Source: Religion News Service | Adelle M. Banks ... Jones’ case has drawn attention from faith leaders — including Dallas megachurch pastor and author Bishop T.D. Jakes and Sojourners founder Jim Wallis — who ramped up their support for the inmate as Monday’s hearing neared. Some expressed concern that racism and false testimony may have figured in Jones’ case. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 10:41:22 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/okla-death-row-inmate-subject-prayer-rally-get-second-clemency-hearing https://sojo.net/about-us/news/which-worse-guilty-freed-or-innocent-punished Source: Christianity Today | Rebecca Randall Speaking this week on behalf of an Oklahoma death row inmate who claims he did not commit the murder for which he’s served 20 years in prison, pastor T. D. Jakes said, “If Jesus acquitted the guilty, then surely he would advocate for the innocent.” Jakes is among a group of Christian leaders, including Sojourners’ Jim Wallis, who are advocating for clemency for Julius Jones. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:41:22 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/which-worse-guilty-freed-or-innocent-punished https://sojo.net/about-us/news/faith-leaders-urge-clemency-okla-death-row-inmate-cite-mounting-evidence Source: Religion News Service | Adelle M. Banks ... Sojourners founder Jim Wallis expressed his concern that “the risk of false testimony, the evidence of racism, and the finality of a death sentence” are reasons for a commutation for Jones, a Black man convicted in the death of a white man. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2021 10:58:01 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/faith-leaders-urge-clemency-okla-death-row-inmate-cite-mounting-evidence https://sojo.net/about-us/news/qanon-and-conspiracy-theories-are-taking-hold-churches-pastors-are-fighting-back Source: Los Angeles Times | Jaweed Kaleem ... The trends led a group of more than 500 influential evangelical pastors, thinkers and faith leaders to recently publish an open letter condemning “radicalized Christian nationalism” and the “rise of violent acts by radicalized extremists using the name of Christ.” Signers of letter, called “Say No To Christian Nationalism,” included Jerushah Duford, the granddaughter of the late Rev. Billy Graham, and the Rev. Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourners, a prominent progressive Christian advocacy organization. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:58:04 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/qanon-and-conspiracy-theories-are-taking-hold-churches-pastors-are-fighting-back https://sojo.net/about-us/news/faith-leaders-denounce-radicalization-white-christians-wake-capitol-riot Source: HuffPost | Carol Kuruvilla ... Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, president of the progressive faith organization Sojourners, told HuffPost that conspiracy groups like the Proud Boys are “antithetical to the Christian faith and values.” This week’s statement may not reach those who remain sympathetic to the insurrection and are deeply loyal to Trump, Taylor said. But he hopes it can influence what he believes is “a far larger group” within American Christianity who may have liked or voted for Trump but who have a hard time reconciling that support with the violence displayed at the Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:24:10 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/faith-leaders-denounce-radicalization-white-christians-wake-capitol-riot https://sojo.net/about-us/news/more-500-evangelicals-other-faith-leaders-condemn-religion-insurrection-heretical Source: Religion News Service | Jack Jenkins ... Jerushah Duford, a granddaughter of the late evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, and Walter Brueggemann, religion scholar and Protestant theologian, were among the best-known signers. They were joined by the Rev. Eugene Cho, CEO of the Christian advocacy group Bread for the World; Lisa Sharon Harper, author, activist and founder and president of FreedomRoad.us; the Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of Christian advocacy group Sojourners; Shane Claiborne, founding member of The Simple Way; and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, an evangelical Christian author, Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:20:30 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/more-500-evangelicals-other-faith-leaders-condemn-religion-insurrection-heretical https://sojo.net/about-us/news/jim-wallis-outsider-s-outsider Source: The Tablet | Liz Dodd The Evangelical preacher who is a leading voice on the religious left says that the idol of white supremacy underpins conservative Catholicism in the United States as well as the conservative Protestant Churches. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:45:22 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/jim-wallis-outsider-s-outsider https://sojo.net/about-us/news/why-white-house-faith-office-matters Source: The Hill | Eboo Patel ... As our friend Rev. Jim Wallis, who also served with us on President Obama’s Faith Council, often said, there should indeed be a separation of church and state, but not a divide between government, diverse religious communities and issues of moral concern. ... Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:39:12 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/why-white-house-faith-office-matters https://sojo.net/about-us/news/america-s-churches-are-now-polarized-too Source: Bloomberg | Francis Wilkinson ... Sojourners, a pillar of the American religious left that was founded during the Vietnam War, is working on its own curriculum to address polarization in churches. “The church should be one of the few places where you can bring together people of very different ideological perspectives and political leanings, and be able to create a space for civil dialogue that’s rooted in core Christian principles and values,” said Sojourners President Adam Taylor. “Part of the reason we have been developing this curriculum is we realized that many clergy and Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:36:18 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/america-s-churches-are-now-polarized-too https://sojo.net/about-us/news/faith-medical-leaders-collaborate-get-covid-19-vaccine-arms-more-people Source: Religion News Service | Yonat Shimron and Adelle M. Banks ... The effort began when Mohamed Elsanousi, executive director of the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers and former director of interfaith relations for the Islamic Society of North America, reached out to Sojourners founder Jim Wallis and other faith leaders who had organized a COVID-19-related National Day of Mourning and Lament on June 1. ... Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:32:17 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/faith-medical-leaders-collaborate-get-covid-19-vaccine-arms-more-people https://sojo.net/about-us/news/five-myths-about-evangelicals Source: The Washington Post | Kristin Kobes Du Mez ... Even today, there are influential evangelicals like the Rev. Jim Wallis who argue that true evangelicalism embraces a progressive social vision, not the “bigotry, xenophobia and misogyny” of the Trump era. ... Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:10:04 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/five-myths-about-evangelicals https://sojo.net/about-us/news/inauguration-week-prayer-event-aims-show-christian-unity Source: Associated Press | Elana Schor ... Jim Wallis, founder of the Christian social justice group Sojourners and a lead organizer of the event, said he hoped to see the faithful “move beyond the emotions of anger and fear” and toward the moral truth of communal reconciliation. “Prayer is action, in my view,” Wallis said. ... Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:04:53 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/inauguration-week-prayer-event-aims-show-christian-unity https://sojo.net/about-us/news/sedition-and-silence Source: Religion News Service | Jim Wallis What has been happening since the outcome of the November presidential election has been historic: continuous acts of sedition aimed at overturning the results of an American election by the current president of the United States. Our nation’s first president, George Washington, decided not to become a new king, but voluntarily turned his office over to a new president. John Adams then turned his office over to Thomas Jefferson after he lost an election, setting a precedent that became a bulwark of American democracy. After becoming the most Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:02:53 EST Sojourners https://sojo.net/about-us/news/sedition-and-silence