Squirrels strike a rare balance: They are both adorable and terrifying (like some toddlers I know). (Reader, I want to be clear that “squirrels in my ceiling” is not a reference to my scattered thoughts but to literal bushy-tailed rodents doing tumbling runs in the crawl space above a bedroom.) I was blessed with the deceptively cutest of these four: Squirrels. I RECENTLY SUFFERED a home invasion by one of the Four Rodents of the Apocalypse, which are mice, rats, squirrels, and something called “roof rats” (rats tired of the climate-change-induced uptick in flooding of sewer-front properties). Obliged to See God (on Flannery O’Connor) An interview with journalist Naomi Klein.ĭeveloping a common agenda to make abortion rare. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Bill Phillips talks about his faith.ĭaring to believe in a life without logos. Why suburbs-on-steroids are wearing out their welcome.Ī glimpse of grace and abundance from - of all things - reality TV. Some Sojourners articles by Julie Polter:Ĭensorship, banning, blacklists: What’s lost when governments stifle musical expression? To make up for all that screen time, she tries to grow things, hike occasionally, and wonder often at the night sky. Her personal interests overlap nicely with her professional ones: Music, books, reading entertainment, culture, and religion writing, art, architecture, TV, films, and knowing more celebrity gossip than is probably wise or healthy. Margaret’s Episcopal Church (where she had an unlikely four-year reign as rummage sale czarina). She lives in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. In addition, Julie’s mother often argued about doctrine and the Bible and took her at least weekly to the public library, both of which were useful background for Julie’s current work. Obsessively listening to her older sister’s copy of the Jesus Christ Superstar cast recording when she was 10 was an especially crystallizing experience. She has been fascinated by the power of religious expression in and through culture since she can remember. Julie grew up on a farm in the northwest corner of Ohio. in creative nonfiction from George Mason University.

(focused on language and narrative theology) from Boston University and an M.F.A.

She studied English literature at Ohio State University and has an M.T.S. She has coordinated in-depth coverage of Flannery O’Connor, campaign finance reform, Howard Thurman, the labor movement, and much more.

In her time at Sojourners she has written about a wide variety of political and cultural topics, from the abortion debate to the working class blues. For the last several years she has edited the award-winning Culture Watch section of the magazine. Julie has been a member of the Sojourners magazine editorial staff since 1990.

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