Adam Russell Taylor

👋🏽 Remember TARU? It’s back.

Originally launched during the chaos of 2020, SojoAction’s Truth and Action Roundup is now a weekly newsletter delivering:

📰 Faith-rooted news
📖 Spiritual reflection
✊🏾 Action steps
📚 Must-reads from prophetic voices.

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Starting this week I am taking some planned time off to vacation with my family and recharge my batteries for ministry and activism. My team at @sojo.net will be monitoring my social media accounts and resharing occasional content until my return on August 22nd.

Faith leaders, our communities need you. As programs like Medicaid and SNAP face uncertainty, SojoAction invites you to a new webinar series: Engage and Adapt.

We’re equipping faith leaders to organize, lead, and prepare for what’s ahead.

🗓️ Join us Aug 5 @ 7PM ET.
🖥 RSVP: sojo.net/engage

Stephen Colbert Was Too Human for Late Night “If there’s some relationship between my faith and my comedy, it’s that no matter what happens, you are never defeated,” he said in 2022.

The loss of Colbert on late night television feels symbolic of several larger trends, writes Tyler Huckabee. sojo.net/articles/cul...

Spread God's Love, Not Measles Rejecting vaccines and dismantling our public health systems won't make America healthier.

The real purpose of a vaccine is to protect not just individuals but all of us. Being vaccinated against dangerous diseases is one of the most concrete things any of us can possibly do to fulfill Jesus’ commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. My latest for @sojo.net: sojo.net/articles/opi...

Clergy: It's time to lead the fight for families at state and local levels (RNS) — Clergy and community members believe the No. 1 policy priority for the church is securing high-quality, affordable child care.

Grateful for the opportunity to write for @rns.org about the urgent necessity of advocacy efforts to lift up American families at the state and local level. religionnews.com/2025/07/22/c...

5 Things Your Religious Community Can Do to Support Trans People As the U.S. government escalates its discrimination against trans people, religious communities must escalate their support of the trans community.

For communities that want to stand in solidarity with trans people, here are five additional action steps that you and your religious community can take: sojo.net/articles/opi...

The Church Doesn’t Talk Much About Greed. Malcolm Foley Says That’s Weird Foley draws from church fathers, Anabaptists, and the Black radical tradition to help explain the anti-greed gospel.

"When Jesus said that you can’t serve two masters, he could’ve picked any other thing as that other master, [but] he names riches." sojo.net/articles/rec...

The Wisdom of Redeeming Patriotism | Real Talk with Dr. David Anderson YouTube video by AndersonSpeaks

Deeply grateful for the opportunity to appear on Real Talk this week. Thanks so much to David Heiliger for guest hosting and the whole Real Talk team for making it happen. www.youtube.com/live/FNuUzSX...

Shame on Congress for passing a rescission package that cuts $8 billion from lifesaving foreign aid! Loving our neighbors as ourselves applies not just to our neighbors down the street but also our neighbors around the world.

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Senate passes effort to claw back $9B from budget -- including cuts to public broadcasting and USAID Murkowski said on Wednesday that she still opposes the bill after voting on Tuesday against advancing it forward.

My heart breaks for the $9 billion of cuts to life saving health and food programs made permanent by the Senate recession vote. These cuts are immoral and set a dangerous precedent weakening Congress’ power of the purse. Encourage the House to defeat this! abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen...

Austin Channing Brown Is Full of Herself In her newest book, Austin Channing Brown talks about how to push back against a world that punishes minority bodies for simply being human.

"To hold one another up is countercultural to this idea of capitalism and rugged individualism. We do something special when we're in community with one another." sojo.net/articles/int...

A reminder that @sojo.net is funded by zero oligarchs and welcomes new readers, subscribers, and donors who support nonprofit journalism focused on faith and social justice.

For example, when ICE tries to use the Bible to support its agenda, we publish stuff like; sojo.net/articles/opi...

For this week’s Reconstruct, Josiah R. Daniels speaks with Mohsen Mahdawi on what it was like to be detained by ICE for 16 days — and why he's not giving up. sojo.net/articles/int...

"We know the holy family was a refugee family, and we know Christlike love dissolves borders and demands generosity. In moments of terror, no matter how corrupt and cruel the government may be, God is with the vulnerable." sojo.net/magazine/jul...

New artwork for @sojo.net accompanying a feature by Carolyn Whitney-Brown about Henri Nouwen who was a Dutch Catholic Priest that fell in love with the trapeze.
Henri wrote about the faith and trust required between trapeze artists and the parallels with religion.
Thanks to A.D. Kory Kennedy!

"We pray for all your children, so dearly loved by you, who know such great destruction as winds and rains crash through. We pray for all those hurting, who grieve for what is gone — for neighbors, friends and siblings who struggle to go on." sojo.net/articles/hym...

House passes tax and immigration bill, sending it to Trump’s desk Republicans passed a mammoth tax and immigration agenda they hope will reshape the U.S. economy and unwind many of the Biden administration’s accomplishments.

With the passage today of the big ugly bill, my heart breaks and prayers are with the estimated 17 million Americans who will lose their health care, millions who will lose access to food, and to communities who will be torn apart by aggressive mass raids. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I’m not letting Christian nationalists ruin my July 4th. Read my column for @sojo.net to find out why at sojo.net/articles/opi...

Check out a recording of a recent webinar on "Christianity and Patriotism" that I participated in with Richard Mouw, former President of Fuller Seminary, and author of "How to Be a Patriotic Christian: Love of Country as Love of Neighbor" at youtu.be/tK8FXkW9Oy4.

A quiet march of coffins at #MoralMondays made one thing clear: lives are on the line.

This reconciliation bill isn’t policy—it’s a death sentence for the poor.

We march. We mourn. We demand a moral budget.

“It is a deeply immoral bill—but there is still time to do what’s right.” It’s time to flood the Capitol with your calls to stop the so-called “big, beautiful bill” before the Senate passes this travesty. Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and get connected to your Senators’ offices.

Despite "No Kings," the Trump resistance is still "muscle-building" Four experts on what could be a hot summer of protest and how to get at Trump's Achilles' heel

Thankful for the opportunity to chat with Chauncey DeVega recently about resistance to the current administration's policies and the road ahead. www.salon.com/2025/06/27/s...

“We can’t bomb our way to peace in the Middle East,” write Rose Marie Berger and Wes Granberg-Michaelson this week for @sojo.net. I hope their article will give you a helpful way to talk about everything that happened between the U.S., Israel, and Iran this month. Read it at sojo.net/articles/opi...

I'm really looking forward to this conversation on Thursday evening--and I hope you can join us!

🚨 Thousands are suffering after Trump, with Elon Musk’s support, illegally slashed USAID — cutting off food and medical aid to those most in need.

Now he wants to make the cuts permanent.
Congress must act.
Tell them to restore USAID ➡️ sojo.net/usaid

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We Can't Bomb Our Way to Peace in the Middle East The call to break the cycle of violence is where followers of Jesus and the prophetic tradition of religious faith always begin.

I'm deeply grateful for the moral clarity of this article from my colleague Rose Marie Berger and Wes Granberg-Michaelson: "...we must repeat the consistent prophetic warning not to place our trust in 'chariots and horses' (Psalm 20:7)...might does not make right." sojo.net/articles/opi...

📣 On June 24, Catholic Sisters will gather in D.C. to pray & speak out against injustice—from budget cuts to deportations.

Join us or host your own #SistersSpeakOut event:
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I'm really looking forward to this conversation on Thursday evening--and I hope you can join us!