Josina Guess

Hi, thanks for stopping by. I am a writer and editor and I love to spend a lot of time outside and cooking, and sometimes cooking outside.

I am an associate editor for Sojourners magazine where I write a regular column “A Way Home.” I like to write about nature, family, faith, activism, and Black history and culture. You can click here to read all of my Sojourners columns, reviews, interviews and feature articles, including a reflection on caring for my mother in law with dementia, a Christian community that digs graves for people in need, a tribute to founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock Bernice Johnson Reagon, interviews with poet Ashley M. Jones, singer Crys Matthews, Rev David Black, writer Barbara Brown Taylor, artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar and actress Aunjanue Ellis Taylor, and a story about reparations for the Linnentown neighborhood in Athens, Georgia.

Sojourners is the 2026 winner of the Religious News Association Award for Best Religious Publication. Its a small nonprofit faith and justice organization and you should get a subscription if you don’t have one already.

Why I love Georgia’s great outdoors: Canoeing and kayaking

The state’s waterways carry the currents of a painful past. Paddling through them, my family charts a new story. by Josina Guess

for Atlanta Magazine September 3, 2024