Sojourners is an independent, award-winning publication of faith, culture, and politics. Since 1971, they have published work on racial and social justice, peace, and environmental stewardship. Sojourners reaches more than 5 million annual readers, attracts more than 7 million annual page views, and has more than 309k social media followers. The majority of its readers are progressive Christians from a variety of denominational backgrounds who are interested in putting their faith into action for social justice.
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LAMENT IS PROPHETIC
In Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement
1 March 2021
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Easten Law
TRUE JUSTICE REFORM
Can’t Ignore People Convicted of Violent Crime
16 December 2020
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Yazmine Nichols, J.D.
MERCY AMBA ODUYOYE
Centering African Women in Christian Theology
December 2020
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Oluwatomisin Oredein
QUESTIONING HONG KONG CHURCHES
How do they situate themselves between Caesar and God?
November 2020
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Easten Law
current media partnership Fellows
Easten Law
Easten Law is a doctoral candidate in theological and religious studies at Georgetown University with a focus on lived theology, public life, and religious pluralism in contemporary China. His dissertation seeks to discern a lived theology of migration among young adult Chinese Christian professionals in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Previously, Easten taught intercultural relations at American University (Washington, DC) and Anhui Normal University (Wuhu, China). He received his M.Div from Wesley Theological Seminary and M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Wheaton College, IL.
Yazmine Nichols
Yazmine Nichols is a Christian Minister and a Catalyst Fellow at the National ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project. Yazmine graduated from the Fordham University School of Law, receiving the Public Interest Valedictorian Award and Dean’s Special Achievement Award for making a singular and distinctive contribution to the school community. She received her M.A. from Union Theological Seminary in 2017 with an interdisciplinary concentration in Social Ethics and Theology. Yazmine’s advocacy and research focus on the relationship between law, theo-ethics, and criminalization.
Dr. Oluwatomisin Oredein
Oluwatomisin Oredein (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Black Religious Traditions and Constructive Theology and Ethics and the Director of Black Church Studies at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, TX. Her scholastic work engages articulations of African feminist, womanist, postcolonial, and Black theologies, as well as theopoetics from an American African perspective.