Josina Guess
Writer at Freelance
Assistant Editor at Sojourners
Assistant editor @sojourners. Words in @BitterSouth, @oxfordamerican, @ecotone Bigger Than Bravery. UGA MFA in narrative nonfiction ‘23 🐐🐾🐓🐈⬛ 🌿
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2 weeks ago |
sojo.net | Josina Guess
A SMALL TREE grows near the parking lot at a state park close to my home. I noticed this tree more than a decade ago when our children were very small: A sapling rooted in the crack of a giant boulder. Over the past 14 years the split in the boulder has widened. As the tree has gotten a little taller and broader, the rock has gradually changed its shape, splitting and cracking. The tree’s bark folds around the rock; the two have become inextricably bound up with one another.
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1 month ago |
atlantamagazine.com | Josina Guess
Illustration by Harry TennantWe pulled into the RV park at night and woke to the sound of rain. The wet morning allowed us time to linger on St. Helena Island near Beaufort, South Carolina, before heading across the bridge to our campsite at Hunting Island State Park, where my husband and our four children have returned for years. We borrowed an RV so that my mother-in-law, our children’s nana, could join us without roughing it in a tent.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
sojo.net | Josina Guess
Illustration by Jody Hewgill Barbara Brown Taylor: On Feeding Birds, Good Friday, and Neighborliness A conversation on finding balance and the power of resurrection. BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR was supposed to be a poet or a short story writer. She accrued a respectable stack of rejection letters to show she tried.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
sojo.net | Josina Guess
“What happens when strangers meet?” is the driving question of the Silkroad Ensemble, an instrumental group conceived in 1998 by cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Musicians from around the world connect and communicate through music in response to this question. Lines between East and West, classical and folk blur as musicians work together to give old sounds new life. When musician and historian Rhiannon Giddens became artistic director of Silkroad in 2020, she focused the musical conversation on railroads.
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Oct 22, 2024 |
sojo.net | Josina Guess
This interview is part of The Reconstruct, a weekly newsletter from Sojourners. In a world where so much needs to change, Mitchell Atencio and Josiah R. Daniels interview people who have faith in a new future and are working toward repair. This week features a guest interview by Sojourners magazine associate editor Josina Guess. Subscribe here. In the first few moments of Exhibiting Forgiveness, La’Ron (John Earl Jelks) is beaten after he defends a store clerk in a convenience store robbery.
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: "The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors...may I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away." https://t.co/iXaHJrPsof
RT @danielleamir: appreciate this homage to Dr. Reagon and its author, @josinaguess, who asked about my memories being her student
Bernice Johnson Reagon passed last July, just a few days before the imagined opening of Octavia Butler's Parable of The Sower, a work that she and her daughter made into an opera. Read my tribute to Dr. Reagon in @Sojourners https://t.co/0kQFzkxhAU via @Sojourners
