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Light for the Way: Seeking Simplicity, Connection, and Repair in a Broken World
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Expected 13 Jan 26Explore the work of beloved writers from Sojourners magazine on spiritual thriving, living simply, and engaging with our communities.
For five decades, Sojourners magazine has been deeply engaged with the world while calling its readers to a new kind of life and faith rooted in justice and peace. This legacy stands in stark contrast to our culture, which too often links a person's value to the amount they produce or consume, pushing each of us to do and be more, fraying our connections and deadening our souls. As Christian nationalism and authoritarianism gain more and more cultural power, we don't need less soul, but more. We need a more resilient faith that can resist power and principalities and prophetically imagine an alternative world, centered in justice and love. Integral to this kind of prophetic faith is a commitment to simple spiritual practices and communal connections. Even in the most dire and demoralizing times, practices of contemplation, sabbath rest, and community offer sustenance and power.
Light for the Way is a powerful, yet meditative collection of pieces from the last fifty years of Sojourners magazine, exploring how contemplative practices, rest, simplicity, environmental engagement, and communal care are essential for sustaining our resistance and repairing our world. And Sojourners continues that work today. With essays from beloved spiritual writers, including Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Walter Brueggemann, Kaitlin Curtice, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, and Richard Rohr, Light for the Way is a soulful companion.
For five decades, Sojourners magazine has been deeply engaged with the world while calling its readers to a new kind of life and faith rooted in justice and peace. This legacy stands in stark contrast to our culture, which too often links a person's value to the amount they produce or consume, pushing each of us to do and be more, fraying our connections and deadening our souls. As Christian nationalism and authoritarianism gain more and more cultural power, we don't need less soul, but more. We need a more resilient faith that can resist power and principalities and prophetically imagine an alternative world, centered in justice and love. Integral to this kind of prophetic faith is a commitment to simple spiritual practices and communal connections. Even in the most dire and demoralizing times, practices of contemplation, sabbath rest, and community offer sustenance and power.
Light for the Way is a powerful, yet meditative collection of pieces from the last fifty years of Sojourners magazine, exploring how contemplative practices, rest, simplicity, environmental engagement, and communal care are essential for sustaining our resistance and repairing our world. And Sojourners continues that work today. With essays from beloved spiritual writers, including Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Walter Brueggemann, Kaitlin Curtice, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, and Richard Rohr, Light for the Way is a soulful companion.
336 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication January 13, 2026
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November 22, 2025
If you're familiar with Sojourners Magazine, then you'll likely know what to expect from this collection of interviews and essays from the fifty-year history of the magazine long recognized as a literary voice for a new kind of life and faith rooted in justice and peace.
This is a collection of essays from the more progressive side of theology and faith. Names like Jim Wallis, Kaitlin Curtice, Margaret Atwood, Walter Brueggemann, Richard Rohr and a host of others sharing the words and wisdom, insights and light they seem to always know best.
As a longtime an of Sojourners, and I've even been to one of their annual conferences, I've long found hope and meaning in their essays. I've felt less alone in a more progressive faith, a faith that often contradicts with this American culture that finds more value in production and consumption, chaos and conflict. Sojourners has long created a vision for spiritual thriving, living simply, and community engagement on radical levels.
Sojourners imagines a different world and seeks to equip and empower people of faith to create that world in ways big and small. These essays are companions to that journey. As is always true of a collection of essays, some will resonate more than others and some will be quick reads while others will slow us down and lead us into prayer, contemplation, rest, and renewal.
Faith is hard right now. I won't say that "Light for the Way" makes it all better, however, it is a powerful reminder of a better way to believe, live, proclaim, and engage. I was repeatedly inspired, educated, and equipped throughout "Light for the Way" and, perhaps more than anything, I am reminded how Sojourners has long made me a better Christian over the years. While I read this collection via an electronic ARC, there's no doubt this will be a collection that ends up on my bookshelf for years to come.
This is a collection of essays from the more progressive side of theology and faith. Names like Jim Wallis, Kaitlin Curtice, Margaret Atwood, Walter Brueggemann, Richard Rohr and a host of others sharing the words and wisdom, insights and light they seem to always know best.
As a longtime an of Sojourners, and I've even been to one of their annual conferences, I've long found hope and meaning in their essays. I've felt less alone in a more progressive faith, a faith that often contradicts with this American culture that finds more value in production and consumption, chaos and conflict. Sojourners has long created a vision for spiritual thriving, living simply, and community engagement on radical levels.
Sojourners imagines a different world and seeks to equip and empower people of faith to create that world in ways big and small. These essays are companions to that journey. As is always true of a collection of essays, some will resonate more than others and some will be quick reads while others will slow us down and lead us into prayer, contemplation, rest, and renewal.
Faith is hard right now. I won't say that "Light for the Way" makes it all better, however, it is a powerful reminder of a better way to believe, live, proclaim, and engage. I was repeatedly inspired, educated, and equipped throughout "Light for the Way" and, perhaps more than anything, I am reminded how Sojourners has long made me a better Christian over the years. While I read this collection via an electronic ARC, there's no doubt this will be a collection that ends up on my bookshelf for years to come.
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