Sojourners has long occupied a distinct place in American letters: a magazine rooted in the Christian social justice tradition that publishes literature and reportage concerned with conscience, community, and the common good. Its pages are not a venue for devotional verse or doctrinal exposition, but for work that takes seriously the ethical weight of lived experience—work in which belief and doubt, protest and reconciliation, are treated as legitimate literary subjects rather than foregone conclusions. The magazine's editorial scope is ecumenical in the truest sense. It welcomes writers of any background or persuasion whose fiction, poetry, or nonfiction grapples with questions of justice, poverty, migration, race, and peace. The register is literary rather than homiletic; the standard is the same one applies to any serious quarterly. Contributors can expect rigorous editing and a readership that includes clergy, activists, academics, and general readers who come to the magazine for prose and verse that illuminate the moral imagination. Because submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, there is no annual contest cycle or themed issue to game. The editors read continuously, which means the most competitive submissions are those that arrive fully realized—polished, unsentimental, and clear about why the work belongs in Sojourners rather than in a secular literary journal or a denominational organ. The magazine does not publish work that merely illustrates a position; it publishes work that complicates one.