Weekly Wrap 3.6.2020: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 3.6.2020: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. The Long-Term Vision of the Christian Nationalist Movement

A Q&A with 'Power Worshippers' author Katherine Stewart.

2. Harris County's Cascade of Election Day Fumbles Disproportionately Affected Communities of Color

The last voters at Texas Southern University, a historically black university, ultimately spent nearly an entire workday waiting in line to cast their ballots, nearly seven hours after polls closed.

3. What Do Politicians Mean When They Invoke Matthew 25?

Matthew 25 isn’t meant to be a warm and fuzzy, feel-good passage.

4. Prep for Prep and the Fault Lines in New York’s Schools

Do programs that help low-income students of color get into selective private schools obscure the system’s deeper inequalities?

5. The Fast That God Desires

Isaiah 58 talks about a fast that loosens the bonds of wickedness.

6. On Forgiveness, Clergy Abuse, and the Need for New Understandings

What should survivors do when the Church asks them for forgiveness?

7. Where Indigenous Women Take Lead on Land Rights, Communities Thrive

Across the globe, women are on the front lines of protecting traditional and Indigenous land from threats like mining, ranching, and a range of other challenges

8. Many Judicial Nominees Are Also Donors to Senators Who Confirm Them

Three Republican senators got more money than the rest of the Judiciary Committee combined. Virtually all of it came from judicial nominees they backed.

9. Loving Your Neighbor in a Time of Coronavirus

How is our deep and shameful inequality in America at play as the threat of the new coronavirus rises?

10. I Pastor a Church Near a COVID-19 Outbreak. This Is What Churches Can Do

Coronavirus precautions can have significant impact on churches, but churches can shape the epidemic as well—for better or worse.