Weekly Wrap 4.1.16: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 4.1.16: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. Homeschooling Without God

“The modern homeschooling movement is one of revolt. ...For a small segment of parents and kids who opt out of traditional public schooling, something is changing: They are also opting out of religion.”

2. 3 False Assumptions About Muslims in the Age of ISIS

“Remember that ISIS wants Islamophobia.”

3. The Reckoning

Fifty years ago, when Claire Wilson was eighteen, she was critically wounded during the 1966 University of Texas Tower shooting — the first massacre of its kind. How does the path of a bullet change a life?

4. The Villain Gap: Why Soviet Movies Rarely Had American Bad Guys

“For more than 40 years, the Soviets were Hollywood’s worthy villains, ideological opposites up to all kinds of no good. So why didn’t the Soviet film industry respond in kind?”

5. WATCH: Why I Stay: LGBTQ Christians in the Church

"I stay because I have hope. I choose to believe that my presence might make a difference. ... I stay because it's home."

6. With ‘Gigs’ Instead of Jobs, Workers Bear New Burdens

“Anyone who cares about the future of work in the United States shouldn’t focus too narrowly on the novelty of people making extra money using their mobile phones. There’s a bigger shift underway.”

7. Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish?

One of the rarest religious experiences you can have in America is to join the Plain.

8. Is This the End of the Era of the Important, Inappropriate Literary Man?

“What happens when the guy in question is employed by the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the most prestigious prominent writing program in the country?”

9. 29 Things All Divinity School Students Will Understand

As will religion nerds, Bible enthusiasts, Sojourners readers...

10. WATCH: New Zealand Transport Agency’s Awkward, Adorable Anti-Texting Driver PSA

Oh … you weren’t reaching for my hand? Oops.