Weekly Wrap 3.24.16: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 3.24.16: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. Pope Celebrates Holy Week by Washing the Feet of Refugees

A lovely alternative to the hateful rhetoric currently being spewed in the U.S.

2. A Womanist Litany

“As we stand this Holy Week, we pause to name the agonizing crucifixion and the promise of resurrection of Black women and girls worldwide. … We call forth healing. We call forth wholeness. We call forth rest.”

3. What Happened to the Jesus People?

Were they really swallowed by the conservatism of leading evangelicals and a fatal decline of Protestant liberalism?

4. Cool Teen Is Now a Presidential Translator

Malia Obama was spotted serving as translator for her dad while in Cuba. Normal.

5. Black Activism, Unchurched

Where is the church in the Black Lives Matter movement? A great examination over at The Atlantic.

6. Paul Ryan on Past Comments About the Poor: ‘I Was Just Wrong’

In an address this week, Ryan, who has previously endorsed the writings of Ayn Rand, admitted, “I’m certainly not going to stand here and tell you I have always met this standard” of civility.

7. Why Race Matters in Planning Parks

“When the city’s parks and recreation department conducted its Master Plan Parks Survey in 2014, the majority of respondents replied that they wanted their neighborhoods and parks linked to biking and walking paths. The problem with that survey is that about two-thirds of the respondents were white with household incomes over $75,000.”

8. Microsoft Scrambles to Limit PR Damage Over Abusive AI Bot Tay

In somewhat terrifying news: “Tay in most cases was only repeating other users’ inflammatory statements, but the nature of AI means that it learns from those interactions.”

9. Why Gender Inequality Is a Christian Issue

“Overcoming global violence against girls and women begins with cultivating beliefs that males and females are of equal worth.”

10. For Adults, Lifelong Learning Happens the Old Fashioned Way

In-person learning. Physical spaces. … Novel ideas.