Weekly Wrap 5.17.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 5.17.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. How Black Millennials Are Calling for a Theological Reformation

“The questions that black millennials have, such as why we worship and study a doctrine enforced upon our ancestors, often go unanswered or are rebutted with scripture.”

2. Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime?

It’s a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it.

3. The Bodies the Desert Hides

"We often consider death the ultimate equalizer, a fate that befalls us all. But the desert belies this."

4. Why Did Helena, Montana, Have a Confederate Monument?

Native-American lawmakers pushed the removal of a 100-year old Confederate monument in Helena, Montana, in 2017. It’s being replaced by a public art project.

5. U.S. Evangelicals Trivialize Global Religious Persecution

“Wouldn’t it be more helpful to address the systemic issues at the core of these expressions of violence, discrimination, and hate? Wouldn’t it be more fruitful to create interfaith networks of solidarity united in confronting all forms of terrorism that target religion?”

6. Dalits Are Fighting Back in the Face of Intense Oppression

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s rule came with an attack on Dalits and the minorities. Now Dalit leaders are fighting back to defeat the Hindu nationalists.

7. Why We Must Become Climate Warriors

"An issue that is about our existential future and the current health of our planet should never be as a partisan cause, yet that is exactly what has transpired."

8. Are Abortion Rights a Matter of Religious Freedom?

If the government endorses one particular conception of when life begins, it is arguably violating the Establishment Clause by favoring certain religious viewpoints over others.

9. The False and Idolatrous Narrative of 'American Christianity'

“The message of Jesus — an ethnic minority who was unfairly arrested, incarcerated, and murdered by a ruling empire — is that the love and power of Christ is meant for everyone.”

10. Save the Church, Dismantle the Priesthood.

“I have not been to Mass in months. I carry an ocean of grief in my heart.”

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