Sojourners Magazine

www.sojo.net

Basic History
Sojourners ministries grew out of the Sojourners Community, located in Southern Columbia Heights, an inner-city neighborhood in Washington, D.C. The community began in the early 1970's when a handful of students began meeting to discuss the relationship between their faith and political issues, particularly the Vietnam War. In 1971, the group decided to create a publication that would express their convictions and test whether other people of faith had similar beliefs. What emerged was an evangelical publication committed to social justice and peace : The Post-American. In the fall of 1975, both the community and the magazine took the name Sojourners. The biblical metaphor "sojourners" identifies God's people as pilgrims--fully present in the world but committed to a different order--and reflects their broadening vision. The group branched out into ministry in its low-income neighborhood, living together in common households, having a common purse, and forming a worship community, getting involved in neighborhood issues, organizing national events on behalf of peace and justice and continuing to publish the magazine. Today, many people who work at Sojourners have never been a part of the community. Rather, they are a committed group of Christians who believe in the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice. They continue to publish the magazine, and have developed an award winning website, they publish resources, engage the wider Christian community through preaching, teaching, public witness, organizing and sponsoring a year of volunteer service in ministry, discipleship and community.

Basic Beliefs
Rotted in the solid ground of prophetic biblical tradition, Sojourners is a progressive Christian voice that preaches not political correctness but compassion, community and commitment. They refuse to separate personal faith from social justice, prayer from peacemaking contemplation from action, or spirituality from politics.

Leadership
Editior-In-Cheif/Executive Director - Jim Wallis
Publisher/Managing Director - Karen Lattea Kline
Executive Editor - David Batstone
Managing Editor - Jim Rice

Basic Facts
Sojourners have provided leadership and support over the years to various activities including Witness for Peace, the Pledge of Resistance, the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, the Free South Africa movement. Sojourners includes evangelicals, Catholics, Pentecostals and Protestants; liberals and conservatives; blacks, whites, Latinos, and Asians; women and men; young and old. They are Christians who want to follow Jesus, but who also sojourn with others in different faith traditions and all those who are one a spiritual journey. Reaching out into traditional churches but also out to those who can't fit into them. Together they seek to discover the intersection of faith, politics, and culture. Sojourners invites you to join, to connect, and to act.

Location
Sojourners Magazine
2401 15th Street NW
Washington DC 20003
Phone (202)328-8842
Fax (202) 328-8757