Where’s the Liberal First Things?

I really want to like Sojourners magazine. The whole radical, neither-left-nor-right, consistent-life ethic thing really appeals to me. But when I actually read it I tend to find the articles rather flimsy and insubustantial. This could have to do with their more activist stance – they’re not likely to run thick, meaty “think peices.” Nothing wrong with that, it’s just that it often reads like preaching to the choir.

Which leads me to ask – where’s the liberal First Things? Say what you will about FT, it runs high quality pieces from some of the best Christian (and Jewish) thinkers around. (And, contrary to what is often claimed, it isn’t monolithically conservative, much less narrowly “neoconservative;” they have, for instance, run pieces quite critical of various aspects of the war by Stanley Hauerwas, Rowan Williams and Paul Griffiths as well as articles from younger scholars critical of the corporate capitalist order.) So, what I’m after is something comparable from a more liberal (or just non-conservative) perspective.

Is there a left-of-center magazine that fills such a niche? Maybe I should be reading the Christian Century?