Weekly Wrap 5.15.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 5.15.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. 'No One Will Take Responsibility for Faye Brown's Death'

Faye Brown was 23 when she went to prison. This week a coroner will report that Brown died at a local hospital of complications from the coronavirus at the age of 67.

2. When Women Don’t Speak

Groundbreaking BYU research shows what it takes for a woman to truly be heard.

3. In Push to Reopen, American Evangelicals Fall Prey to Political Strategy

White American evangelicals have lost their vision for the flourishing of an entire community.

4. A Mystery at Oxford

The university has half a million ancient papyrus fragments. They’ve started to go missing.

5. Rejecting Viral Images of Black Death

What value is there in circulating a depiction of innocent black death?

6. Alone

It’s a relief or a nightmare, irritating and liberating, and already, for many, interminable. This is living alone in a pandemic.

7. For Seminary Students, Pandemic Brings Change and Questions of Calling

While the pandemic has strained students from all academic disciplines, seminary and divinity students have felt unique pressure as they discern calls to enter positions and spaces of worship that may not resemble what they did before the virus took hold.

8. The People Behind the Counter Are People

Remember this the next time you order takeout.

9. Is Media Coverage Biased Against Evangelicals in the Midst of the Coronavirus?

How should we talk about white evangelicals during the coronavirus pandemic?

10. What the Church Can Learn from Octavia Butler

“In order to be faithful in this hour, we can’t lie to ourselves believing that things are so bad that they can’t be changed.”

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