Subscribe today and get the full print magazine sent directly to your home. You've read the experts' memos to Obama. Now see our readers' photo memos. 10 simple steps to desegregating your Web site. A conversation with Emmanuel M. Katongole, co-director of the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School. Jacob Bathanti, reads his poem and shares how a friend's return from war made him long for peace. Writer Valerie Weaver-Zercher on how to raise kids without "branding" them. Looking for Christmas gifts for kids? Here is a list of great kids books. With his sock puppet friend, Ed Spivey Jr. takes on the economic crisis, former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, and ... muffins.

Cover Story

Dear President Obama
Memos to the new president from political, cultural, and religious leaders.  by Jim Wallis, Elizabeth Edwards, Bono, Nicholas Kristof, Marian Wright Edelman, and others.

Photo Memos to President Obama

Features

Amazing Grace in the Mental Ward
For years, I had fought against the stigmas that dehumanize people with mental illness. Now here I was on the inside.  by William O'Brien

The Pattern of this World
A Ugandan Catholic priest, the child of Rwandan parents -- one Hutu and the other Tutsi -- explains how missionary Christianity helped create the divisions that led to genocide.  by Emmanuel M. Katongole (with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)

A Conversation with Emmanuel Katongole

Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda

Commentary

It's the Equality, Stupid
The financial crisis.  by Robert S. McElvaine

The Dangerous Trade-off
The U.S.-India nuclear deal fans the flames of the global arms race.  by Larry Pullen and Tyler Wigg Stevenson

The New Digital Divide
Overcoming online segregation.  by Andrew Sears

10 Steps to Ending Online Segregation

Columns

Hearts & Minds: A New Faith Coalition
The faith community can help bring people together on the biggest moral issues of our time, even across old political divisions.  by Jim Wallis

H'rumphs: This Is Not About the Economy
by Ed Spivey Jr.

Ed Spivey Jr. takes on the economic crisis, former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, and muffins.

Culture Watch

The Battle Over the 1960s
Can Obama move us past the culture wars of the last 40 years?  by Danny Duncan Collum

Buy, Buy Baby
Helping parents resist the siren song of marketers.  by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

A Conversation with Valerie Weaver-Zercher about parenting without labels

Sojourners Recommends: Life-Shaping Books for Kids

A Timeless Prophet
by Steve Loy
Book Review: The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years, Volume 2 by William Sloane Coffin.

Going Green
by Tim King
Review: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones.

New and Noteworthy
Reviewed by Molly Marsh

Departments

Letters
| Spiritual Journeys | Moral Principles | Transforming Hearts | Weapons of War |

Between the Lines
| Making Abortion Rare | Africa Demands Climate Change Compensation | The Poverty Pulpit | Newman Lives | Lookin' for the Light | Welcoming the Stranger: Illegal? |

Poetry: Written to Read at a Peace Rally
by Jacob Bathanti

Jacob Bathanti reads his poem

Jacob Bathanti talks about the inspiration for his poem

Living the Word: Claiming Our Inheritance
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for January.  by Michaela Bruzzese