If you're familiar with Sojourners Magazine, then you'll likely know what to expect from this collection of interviews and essays from the fifty-year history of the magazine long recognized as a literary voice for a new kind of life and faith rooted in justice and peace.

This is a collection of essays from the more progressive side of theology and faith. Names like Jim Wallis, Kaitlin Curtice, Margaret Atwood, Walter Brueggemann, Richard Rohr and a host of others sharing the words and wisdom, insights and light they seem to always know best.

As a longtime an of Sojourners, and I've even been to one of their annual conferences, I've long found hope and meaning in their essays. I've felt less alone in a more progressive faith, a faith that often contradicts with this American culture that finds more value in production and consumption, chaos and conflict. Sojourners has long created a vision for spiritual thriving, living simply, and community engagement on radical levels.

Sojourners imagines a different world and seeks to equip and empower people of faith to create that world in ways big and small. These essays are companions to that journey. As is always true of a collection of essays, some will resonate more than others and some will be quick reads while others will slow us down and lead us into prayer, contemplation, rest, and renewal.

Faith is hard right now. I won't say that "Light for the Way" makes it all better, however, it is a powerful reminder of a better way to believe, live, proclaim, and engage. I was repeatedly inspired, educated, and equipped throughout "Light for the Way" and, perhaps more than anything, I am reminded how Sojourners has long made me a better Christian over the years. While I read this collection via an electronic ARC, there's no doubt this will be a collection that ends up on my bookshelf for years to come.

Written by Richard Propes
The Independent Critic