Weekly Wrap 11.1.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 11.1.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. Who Cares for Home Health Care Workers?

For two million home aides, the pay average is just over $11 per hour.

2. Jonathan Safran Foer and the Limits of Liberal Climate Politics

Addressing climate change will take a whole lot more than changing our diets.

3. The Faith Factor With Senator Cory Booker

In the first episode of this new season of The Soul of the Nation, Rev. Jim Wallis interviews Senator Cory Booker.

4. Why Millennials Are Skipping Church and Not Going Back

Few of their new favorite activities are geared toward building deep relationships at all, let alone in a religious context

5. Christ-Like Love Is the Antidote to the Sins of Christendom

Many Christians have rationalized destructive behavior by underemphasizing the importance of Christ’s life and overemphasizing particular parts of the bible.

6. Facebook Failed The Rohingya In Myanmar. Now It May Be Repeating Its Mistakes In Assam

A new report from human rights group Avaaz has found that “Facebook is being used as a megaphone for hate, pointed directly at vulnerable minorities.”

7. Kanye's 'Sunday Service' Can't Replace the Work of Black Churches

He is preaching a pacified grace and love message, masked in the cloak of black Christian faith traditions.

8. Lebanon Uprising Unites People Across Faiths, Defying Deep Sectarian Divides

Lebanon's 1989 peace deal ended a civil war by sharing political power between religious factions. That created a society profoundly divided by religion – something today's protesters hope to change.

9. The Saints That Haunt Us

Daniel José Older’s novel is a powerful meditation on love and betrayal in times of revolution.

10. As Witchcraft Mainstreams, It’s Halloween Every Day

Today, people are especially eager for a taste of the enchanted.