Rose Marie Berger, Senior Editor of Sojourners magazine, is a Catholic peace activist and poet who has worked within social justice movements for more than 40 years. She is the volume editor of Light for the Way: Seeking Simplicity, Connection, and Repair in a Broken World and joins MaryB. to discuss how the book extends the conversations long discussed within the Sojourners community, out into the world while asking what it means to live authentically in this day and age.

This discussion explores several paradoxes: the need for isolation and contemplation in order to better serve community, the gifts and deep flaws that exist simultaneously within the established church, and the ways faith can deepen through disillusionment. MaryB. and Rose’s conversation invites listeners to understand that learning to live with these paradoxes is an essential part of growth.

Rose Marie Berger is a Catholic poet, writer, and peace activist who has worked for social change movements for 40 years. She is poetry editor and senior editor for Sojourners, a magazine whose mission is to inspire hope and action by articulating the biblical call to social justice. She has traveled to Ukraine, Colombia, Bosnia, and elsewhere to support faith-rooted peacemaking. Rose is active in the global Catholic Nonviolence Initiative. She is co-editor of Advancing Nonviolence and Just Peace in the Church and World and has presented several times on nonviolence at the Vatican. Her poetry has appeared in Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting a Bioregional Faith and Practice and Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry: Conversations on Creation, Land Justice, and Life Together. Rose has spent her life engaged in faith-based activism, advocacy journalism, and pastoral leadership. Rose was born at 319.08 ppm CO2 and raised in the American River watershed, in traditional Nisenan-Maidu territory. She lives in Oak View, Calif., with her wife Heidi Thompson.

Light for the Way is available today wherever you buy books! Follow Sojourners on IG @sojogram. Follow Rose on Bluesky @rmberger.bsky.social

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