1. Indonesia Is Relocating Its Capital. Here’s Why—
Leaders in Indonesia have discussed the idea of changing the capital’s location off and on for decades, ever since the country gained its independence from the Dutch in 1945. But there’s a new urgency …
2. This Traveling Library Is Making Sure ‘Black Women’s Literature Has the Place It Deserves’
Akinmowo has over 1,000 books in what she has named the Free Black Women’s Library and she's set up a collection of books in monthly pop-ups all around Brooklyn.
3. New Life for a 100-Year Fight for Gender Equality?
This week, the House Judiciary Committee today held the first hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment in 36 years.
4. Hacktivism Is on the Rise — But Less Effective Than Ever
The fact that they often live outside the country or region where the conflict is playing out, researchers say, can create a sense of detachment or disconnect between digital protest efforts and local grassroots movements. Yet hacktivists still often claim credit for progress or victories regardless of what is actually happening on the ground.
5. Father Ted Hesburgh’s Revolutionary Kindness: A Q&A with Filmmaker Patrick Creadon
“From Hesburgh’s origins to his decision to devote his life to the priesthood, to his appointment — at the young age of 35 — as president of the University of Notre Dame, to all the personal, national, and global adversities that the man of the cloth later faced afterward, Hesburgh weaves a beautiful and engaging story of faith lived out.”
6. The Quiet Revolution in Evangelical Christian Publishing
How a vacuum in evangelical women’s discipleship led to “new wave” complementarianism among a cohort of women writers.
7. Prioritize Bodies and Minds Over Bricks and Mortar
“If God elects solidarity with the poor, rebuilding Notre Dame demands we invest significantly in anti-poverty missions concurrent with the erection of aesthetically memorable steeples and the installation of stained-glass windows.”
8. We Were Poor, But the Beach Was Ours
Why America needs public beaches.
9. PODCAST: After Barr’s Testimony, a Moral Look at the Mueller Report
Jim Wallis discusses what’s at stake in his weekly podcast The Soul of the Nation.
10. Former State Poet Laureate Leads Fellow Writers in Wall Protest
“[A] Montezuma Bald Cypress, one of the few remaining trees of its kind in the Rio Grande Valley, served as the backdrop for members of the Texas Institute of Letters, as well as local poets who did a series of readings about migration, the border wall, the borderlands and the immigrant experience in the United States.”
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