Sojourners Magazine - Timeline Event

Jim Wallis

1971

In 1971, a group of liberal evangelical Christians from Chicago’s Trinity Evangelical Divinity founded a magazine originally entitled the Post-American in order to promote economic and racial justice through a Christian perspective. By the mid-1970s, the magazine changed its name to Sojourners in order to highlight the Christian church as an "alien society" of God’s people embedded in the world and yet "committed to a whole different order of things." Their positions on social issues often mirror liberal Protestantism and liberation theology. Sojourners also often agreed liberal views on the nation’s domestic and foreign policies. For example, the magazine is renowned for advocating pacifism, so much so that it became one of the leading voices for radical Christian pacifism in America. The magazine strongly opposes Christian fundamentalism and its views on biblical inerrancy, highlighting how evangelical Christianity is not a monolithic, right-wing tradition as some suggest.

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