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Sojourn Church: Conservative Christianity Paraded as Hip Youth Culture

By Stephen George
LEO Weekly | April 11, 2008
In its purest form, Sojourn is a Southern Baptist church. Pastors counsel a strict adherence to scripture, which means abortion is murder, men are the natural-order leaders and homosexuality is a sin from which gays need to be converted and redeemed. That doesn't usually go with pearloid buttons and horn-rimmed glasses.
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