Meanwhile ... On the God Beat

Christian Twitter exploded a couple of weeks ago after well-known pastor Tim Keller received an award and was invited to speak at Princeton Seminary. The award has since been rescinded, but Keller has still agreed to speak at the seminary's annual Kuyper Lecture, set for April 6. Here, we dive into what spurred the controversy and preview our coverage of the event.

With the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in limbo, our Associate Web Editor Dhanya Addanki talked to Patrice Lawrence and Mwewa Sumbwe of the UndocuBlack Network about what the end of DACA could mean. This network was founded by undocumented black immigrants who wanted to center the voices of black undocumented people that are often left out of the immigration conversation. Listen in as they explore the intersections of being black and undocumented in the U.S. and the struggles and joys those identities hold. Click here to sign a petition telling congress to save DACA: http://bit.ly/2wqOgfS Learn more about the UndocuBlack Network at undocublack.org.

Video games have long been dismissed from mainstream audiences as shallow or immature, but can they be something more? Our multimedia editor JP Keenan traveled to the "Games For Change" festival to talk with game designers about the power of "empathy games" and learn about future of virtual reality to see if it's the game changer everyone is selling it out to be. More links from the story: Sojourners magazine article about That Dragon, Cancer Chris Milk's TED Talk Media company behind "Blindfold VR" Planned Parenthood VR experience That Dragon, Cancer official site

On today's episode, our deputy web editor @chwoodiwiss chats with with journalists @sullivanamy, @dawn_cherie, and @ayshabkhan about something journos usually don’t like talking about: when doing our job becomes too much. We discuss the public's rising suspicion of journalism, dealing with traumatic images, fending off Twitter hate, and—whew—why we still love the work. For more, read our companion piece in the July issue of Sojourners: http://bit.ly/2sMXaBH.

Climate justice means more than caring about the Earth — it also means caring for the Earth's people. Alaura Carter takes us inside climate justice work at Sojourners, and why we're headed to the #ClimateMarch on Saturday.