From the Editors: ‘Heaven-Talk’ and Nuclear Disarmament

An introduction to the January/February 2026 issue of Sojourners.

By The Editors

Sister Carol Gilbert, OP, joined the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1965 when she was 18 years old. In 2025, Gilbert estimated that she had been “in and out of jails and prisons for the last 40 years resisting war and nuclear weapons.” / Illustration by Dani M. Jiménez (And Her Saints)

January/February 2026

SOME OF US at Sojourners remember the existential angst of life during the nuclear arms race of the 1980s. If you were of a certain church tradition, you might have had an internal debate about what would get you first—the rapture or nuclear holocaust. And you might have been among the millions of people who worked for nuclear disarmament, a movement that helped drastically dial back the number and acceptability of nuclear weapons.

Sister Carol Gilbert, OP, joined the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1965 when she was 18 years old. In 2025, Gilbert estimated that she had been “in and out of jails and prisons for the last 40 years resisting war and nuclear weapons.” / Illustration by Dani M. Jiménez (And Her Saints)

From the Editors: ‘Heaven-Talk’ and Nuclear Disarmament

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