sojo.net

[link removed]

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]

 

SojoMail

[link removed]



=================================================================
SOJOMAIL: A weekly ezine of spirituality, politics and culture
=================================================================

When Following Jesus Gets Put On Trial
Jim Wallis

Editors note: This is part eight of an eight-part series
exploring the eight Jesus questions all of us must face,
highlighted in Jim Wallis's new book Christ in Crisis: Why
We Need to Reclaim Jesus (HarperOne), available now. These next
eight weeks will help us go deeper than the headlines, to find
our way back to Jesus in the midst of this intensive and
exhausting news cycle.

Want to hear this in an audio format instead? We just launched an
eight-episode podcast series called Reclaiming Jesus
Now that features Allison Trowbridge and William Matthews
speaking with Jim Wallis about these questions and their
relevance today.

What does discipleship look like?

I was in Tuscon, Ariz., this week for the final day of the trial
of Scott Warren, a volunteer who helps migrants in the desert. He
was charged with a felony for "harboring" and assisting
"illegal aliens" with a potential sentence of 10 years in
prison. I gave a statement outside the Tucson courthouse and then
joined a group of clergy flooding the courtroom wearing our
vestments as the closing arguments were presented and the jury
was sent out to make their decision. Outside the legal
proceedings, I testified from the text of Matthew 25. I can
summarize it like this:

 

+ READ MORE
[link removed]

=================================================================
OUR LATEST
=================================================================

Activists Hope Pope Francis Will Sway Japanese Opinion on Death
Penalty (by Elaine Lies, Reuters)

Fewer than 1 percent of Japanese are Christian but activists
say Francis is widely respected as a global moral leader.

Mark Charles on the Nation's Selective Amnesia (by Simran Jeet
Singh)

Mark Charles talks to Simran Jeet Singh about decolonizing faith
and investigating the history we've been taught.

Want to Honor God Through Your Clothing Choices? Here's How (by
Liz Lwanga)

Honoring the labor, expertise, and material resources used to
make clothes is also an essential way for people of faith to
honor God.

Scott Warren, Who Provided Humanitarian Aid to Immigrants, Found
Not Guilty on Harboring Charges (by Paul Ingram, Reuters)

He said the men needed to recover rather than continue their
journey through desert where

 

DONATE
[link removed]

 
TELL A FRIEND
[link removed]

Unsubscribe or update email preferences
[link removed]

Update your contact information
[link removed]

[link removed]

Copyright © 2017 Sojourners, All rights reserved.

Sojourners | 408 C St. NE |
Washington, DC 20002

Email: [email protected] | Tel.:
202.328.8842