JULIE POLTER arrived at Sojourners in 1990 to serve a year as an intern on our editorial staff. Three decades later, Polter steps into the role of editor of Sojourners magazine, the third person to fill that position in our 51-year history. Polter’s predecessor, Jim Rice, who succeeded our founding editor in 2006 and has been on Sojourners’ staff since 1981, will continue as a senior editor. During Rice’s tenure as editor, Sojourners has been consistently honored as “best in class” among its peer religious publications.
Polter has done pretty much every editorial task available for the magazine—winning multiple editing and writing awards in the process—from shepherding our culture section for many years to her most recent stint as managing editor. She has the rare capacity to be theologically wonky, lyrical, and very funny at the same time—attributes that, to be sure, will come in handy in her new role. Sojourners has deep roots and a strong sense of mission; it’s fitting that we welcome into leadership a person about whom the same can be said.
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