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Employ, retain, and promote a diverse staff, leadership, and board of directors that mirror the diversity of our churches and society. Sojourners is an Equal Opportunity employer, committed to nondiscrimination and affirmation of people of color, women, and LGBTQ staff, and to increasing the ethnic and racial diversity of its staff.
Scripture teaches that all people are sojourners here on earth. The temporary nature of our lives is expressed in James 4:14 that we are but a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. David proclaimed to God in Psalm 39:5, Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you.
What emerged was a publication committed to social justice and peace: The Post-American. In the fall of 1975, the fledgling community moved to Washington, D.C., where both the community and the magazine took the name Sojourners.
In 1927, the word Club was officially dropped and the National Sojourners were formally incorporated in 1931. Today, National Sojourners are organized in some 160 chapters in 46 states of the United States as well as in Germany and France. The organization’s headquarters are in [Springfield]], Virginia.
In 1917, a group of Masonic military officers, meeting in Chicago, Illinois, formally organized the Chicago Sojourners Club. Further Sojourners’ clubs formed at army posts and naval bases around the United States and overseas.