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Rose Marie Berger Associate Editor
Rose Marie Berger, Associate Editor and Poetry Editor for Sojourners magazine, is a Catholic poet and peace activist who writes about empire, art, social justice and activism. Her most recent book is Who Killed Donte Manning? The Story of an American Neighborhood (Apprentice House, 2010). A native of the West Coast, Rose has lived in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. since the mid-1980s. In the course of a 20 plus-year career in faith-based activism, advocacy journalism, and pastoral leadership, she has proven to be a skilled organizer, exceptional writer, visionary pastoral leader, and innovative teacher of biblical literacy. For more than two decades, Rose has rooted herself with Sojourners magazine and ministry. She has worked as a peace organizer, internship program director, liturgist, community pastor, poet, preacher, public speaker, and retreat leader. Rose blogs at www.rosemarieberger.com, Godspolitics.com, and Huffington Post, and writes a regular column for Sojourners called The Hungry Spirit that examines ancient spiritual traditions in light of the contemporary world. She is also a religion reviewer for Publishers Weekly. Rose’s interview with Dr. Vincent Harding has been included in the 2008 revised version of Martin Luther King: An Inconvenient Hero by Vincent Harding (Orbis Books, 2008). Her interview with Wendell Berry has been included in Conversations with Wendell Berry edited by Morris Allen Grubbs (University Press of Mississippi, 2007). She has a chapter on war and peace included in The Revolution (Relevant Media Group, 2006) and a chapter on the spiritual necessity of daydreaming in The Impossible Will Take A Little While (Basic Books, 2004) and regularly consults with writers and publishers on forthcoming manuscripts. Since 2011, Rose has served as a mentor with the World and World Mentoring Circle dedicated to putting 22-30-year-olds with a thirst for justice in conversation with some of the most influential and committed radical Christian theologians and activist-scholars of our day. She grew up in the Great Central Valley of California, located in the rich flood plains of the Sacramento and American rivers. Raised in radical Catholic communities heavily influenced by Franciscans and the Catholic Worker movement, she served for nine years on the pastoral team for Sojourners Community Church; five as its co-pastor. She directed Sojourners internship program from 1990-1999. Rose Berger has a veteran history in social justice activism, including: numberous arrests for nonviolent civil disobedience; educating and training groups in nonviolence and nonviolent direct action; leading retreats in spirituality and justice; writing on topics as diverse as the "Spiritual Vision of Van Gogh, O'Keeffe, and Warhol," the war in the Balkans, interviews with black activists Vincent Harding and Yvonne Delk, the Love Canal's Lois Gibbs, and Mexican archbishop Ruiz, cultural commentary on the Catholic church and the peace movement, reviews of movies, books, and music. She has travelled extensively in the United States, Israel/Palestine, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosova, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. Her poetry has been published in Sojourners, The Other Side, Radix, D.C. Poets Against the War, Beltway and elsewhere. Rose holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Southern Maine (2005) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from the University of California at Davis (1985). She co-owns a house with Sojourners associate editor Julie Polter in the Southern Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. and shares it with Rose’s flat-coat lab retriever “Solea.” Rose’s articles include:
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