Weekly Wrap 5.1.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 5.1.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan: 'You Measure What You Care About'

Peggy Flanagan, Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, talks with Rev. Jim Wallis about state and federal responses to the coronavirus.

2. Are You Rich Enough to Survive This Pandemic?

The vulnerable, the virus, and America’s willful blindness.

3. Liberation Theology Calls Together the Religious and Political

Samuel Cruz didn't want to choose between faith and politics. Then he found liberation theology.

4. My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?

Forced to shutter Prune, I’ve been revisiting my original dreams for it — and wondering if there will still be a place for it in the New York of the future.

5. The Myth of Christian Innocence Reinforces Anti-Semitism

How will progressive Christians react to rising anti-Semitism in this pandemic?

6. The People We Feed

What is Southern hospitality, and what does it mean in a crisis like this?

7. Can All Churches Survive in this Pandemic?

Churches, like nonprofits and small businesses, face a lack of financing due to closures across the country.

8. Nannies Tell the Truth About Working During the Coronavirus

‘Now that I’m out of isolation, I’m taking care of the whole family unit.’

9. Unequal Suffering: Here's How Congress Should Help

Make no mistake: While each of us has borne a variety of new burdens and dangers during this pandemic, those burdens are by no means distributed equally.

10. Why Zoom Is Terrible

There’s a reason video apps make you feel awkward and unfulfilled.