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I keep looking at the latest issue of Sojourners and smiling. On the cover, you’ll find a gorgeous portrait of Georgia Coley, taken by Nashville-based LGTBQ+ photographer Emily April Allen. The photo accompanies Coley’s essay about her hopes as a transgender Christian—hopes that are quite different from the way trans people are often characterized in the media. It’s special to me to see Coley on our cover. “Trans folks like me have been a cultural touchstone of heated debate for the last several years,” she writes, “often talked about but rarely platformed enough to have a conversation with.” And that’s especially true, I might add, in Christian spaces (or on Christian magazine covers). We’re grateful Coley was willing to help us change that. Meanwhile, we journey through Holy Week, meditating on the body of Christ, broken for all of us. And that “all” does mean all: The politicians stooping to Trump-style meme wars. Those blocking Palestinian Christians from Jerusalem sacred sites on Holy Week. Everyone who joined No Kings protests. The people who pick up the pieces when our faith and justice leaders fail. Broken for me and for you.
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