Sojourners

Sojourners "ministries grew out of the Sojourners Community, located in Southern Columbia Heights, an inner-city neighborhood in Washington, D.C. The community began at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, in The Post American, Jan-Feb 1973 the early 1970s 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 publication committed to social justice and peace: The Post-American...

"In 1995, Sojourners founded Call to Renewal, with many other partners and organizations, to specifically focus on poverty by uniting churches and faith-based organizations across the theological and political spectrum to lift up those whom Jesus called "the least of these." For more than a decade Call to Renewal convened the broadest Christian table on poverty in America. In 2006, Sojourners and Call to Renewal re-united organizationally under the name Sojourners/Call to Renewal. In October 2007, the organizational name returned to Sojourners, while the special forcus on uniting churches on poverty continued to be a priority in the advocacy work of Sojourners."


 * Editor-in-Chief/Chief Executive Officer, Jim Wallis
 * Chief Operating Officer, Chuck Gutenson

Directors
Accessed December 2008:


 * David Batstone
 * Michael Battle
 * Angela Glover Blackwell
 * Peter Borgdorff
 * Bart Campolo
 * Chuck Collins
 * David Cortright
 * Yvonne Delk
 * Ray East
 * Robert Franklin, Jr.
 * Ivy George
 * Wes Granberg-Michaelson
 * Michael Kieschnick
 * Linda LeSourd Lader
 * Christa Mazzone Palmberg
 * Mike McCurry
 * Brian McLaren
 * Debra McLeod Sears
 * Mary Nelson
 * Judy Mussa
 * Glenn Palmberg
 * Staccato Powell
 * Soong-Chan Rah
 * Gabriel Salguero
 * Ron Sider
 * Helene Slessarev-Jamir
 * Glen Stassen
 * Jim Wallis
 * Bill Watanabe
 * Sharon Watkins
 * Barbara Williams-Skinner

Contact

 * Web: http://www.sojo.net

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