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# Opinion Reply to Betsy Shirley (ignored)
- URL: https://gijustice.com/20260519-1353-sojo/
- Published: 2026-05-19T20:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-06T23:25:03.000Z
- Author: Logan M Isaac
- Tags: Sojourners, Betsy Shirley

Betsy,

Thank you for [the quick reply](https://gijustice.com/record/20260519-sojo). I want to ask a direct question, and I hope you'll receive it in the spirit it's offered — which is the same spirit that brought me to Sojourners nearly two decades ago.

Jeremiah Wright wore the uniform before he picked up the prophetic mantle. That lineage — the veteran as prophet, as moral witness, as the person who has paid the cost the civilian critic has only narrated — is not incidental to the SecDef Hegseth conversation Adam's piece opened. It *is* the conversation. When Sojourners publishes the civilian-contra-military frame and declines the response from someone inside the military lineage, the question I cannot shake is whether the mission is being applied or performed.

I am not asking you to publish something you find unworthy. I am asking whether there is an editorial reason, one consistent with your stated commitments to ["restorative justice" through "in depth exploration,"](https://sojo.net/join/campaigns/nonviolence-and-peace?ref=gijustice.com) that a response from a veteran, a member of a federally protected class, and a longtime contributor does not meet the standard Adam's piece was held to. That is a genuine question, and I think your readers and your donors would find it worth answering.

\- brother logan