Mitchell Atencio

2 days ago | sojo.net | Mitchell Atencio

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. Subscribe here. R.O. Kwon, the bestselling novelist of The Incendiaries and Exhibit, does not believe in God. Even so, Kwon’s writing about God and faith feels more familiar to me than that of many who do believe.

2 weeks ago | sojo.net | Mitchell Atencio

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. Subscribe here. Recently, I got to visit Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, a historic site where the National Park Service presents a lecture on the church’s history and impact in the city.

3 weeks ago | sojo.net | Mitchell Atencio

In his 12 years as pontiff, Pope Francis forged a legacy of compassion, humanity, and joy. The pope’s concern for social justice was on the mind of many mourning his death. From climate change to global poverty, war and violence, LGBTQ+ people and women’s roles in the church, Francis was remembered not just for his teachings or leadership on hot-button topics, but also the Argentine’s pastoral approach to the people caught up in them.

1 month ago | sojo.net | Mitchell Atencio

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. Subscribe here. While much of the nation was captivated by Rev. Mariann Budde’s sermon calling on newly inaugurated President Donald Trump to show mercy, I missed it.

1 month ago | sojo.net | Mitchell Atencio

Authors want their writing to be read. They like being paid for their work and finding out someone pirated a book or circumvented a paywall isn’t typically the end of the world. But when the reading is done by artificial intelligence, and the pirating is done by a multi-billion-dollar company? Many authors feel differently. Meta, the company that owns Facebook, pirated millions of books to build the dataset that would train its AI model, according to The Atlantic.