Weekly Wrap 4.24.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 4.24.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. Flattening the Curve of Xenophobia

Where there is a massive wave of suffering and death, a second wave of racism and xenophobia is typically not far behind.

2. How Millions of Women Became the Most Essential Workers in America

One in three jobs held by women has been designated as essential.

3. 4 Ways To Show Solidarity This Ramadan

Fasting may be an individual act of worship, but the reality is that it’s a community act as well.

4. The Sweatshops Are Still Open. Now They Make Masks

Factories in Downtown L.A.'s garment district are switching over to mask production, while paying workers the same illegally low wages as always.

5. On 'Sacrificing the Weak' and These Malthusian Times

Love him or hate him, Malthus is one of those figures who doesn’t go away.

6. A New Doctor Faces the Coronavirus in Queens

A front-line physician at Elmhurst Hospital sees how closely socioeconomic status is tied to the disease, and tries to help patients who are dying without their families.

7. 'You Can't Address Health Inequities If You Don't Understand Them'

Virginia Caine, a physician and director of the Marion County Public Health Department in Indiana, said raising the minimum wage is one way to help address disparities in health outcomes.

8. America's Wannabe Caesar

Trump’s daily press briefings resemble the kind of public idolatry that ancient Caesars engaged in.

9. Christian Groups That Resist Public-Health Guidelines Are Forgetting History

Early Christians offered people a social network that would love them with donations of food or money.

10. 10 Ways To Do Online Church Without Losing Community

If you’re leading a congregation during these days, bless you. If you’re a member of a congregation, remember that this major shift in how to be church is a huge lift for pastoral staff.

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