Weekly Wrap 2.28.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 2.28.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. What Does Contemporary Lenten Fasting Look Like?

How is fasting a spiritually edifying practice that brings us closer to God – indeed, so close that we are better positioned to address the state of our nation?

2. Are There Cracks in the GOP-Evangelical Alliance?

There may be some cracks emerging in the GOP-white evangelical alliance that has seemed to dominate American politics since the 1980s.

3. Do You Live Near the Toxic 100?

We believe the air we breathe is sacred. What we have here is not just a pollution problem or a regulatory problem — it is a moral problem.

4. Bloomberg’s Immense Spending Gets Him 30,000 Online Ads a Minute

A visual representation of Mike Bloomberg’s truly staggering ad spending budget.

5. The Interfaith Approach to Longstanding Violence in Nigeria

Tit-for-tat killings had started between Christians and Muslims in Jos. In Muslim-dominated areas, Muslims roamed the streets and singled out Christians. In Christian-dominated areas, Christians retaliated with killings Muslims.

6. Black At The Ballot

South Carolina’s long been called “the Black primary,” but HuffPost spoke to residents of Columbia who are approaching the election with views and values as diverse as America itself.

7. Men's Love and Grief in 'The Inheritance'

In The Inheritance we witness the beauty of intergenerational friendship made more acute by the grief felt at the absence of so many men who should have lived to teach us more.

8. The Truth About Sanders' Cold War Comments Is Too Complicated for Cable News

Can Bernie deal with the soft-on-commies attack?

9. Why Do Christians Deny William Wilberforce's Drug Addiction?

My initial shock, and how some of Wilberforce’s biographers have handled this aspect of his life, says a lot about deeply ingrained societal assumptions about addiction and those who become addicted.

10. It Took 120 Years But the U.S. Just Made Lynching a Federal Hate Crime

Only four members of the House voted against the bill.