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Weekly Wrap 10.11.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
New post by Rachel Held Evans, climate migrants in the Bible, potential jail time for Betsy DeVos, and more.
Weekly Wrap 10.4.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Amazon Synod, Robert Jeffress’ civil war, Gandhi under scrutiny, and more.
Weekly Wrap 9.27.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Confessing to plants, climate strike, ‘Just Mercy’ film, and more.
Weekly Wrap 9.20.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Tackling climate change, Rachael Denhollander’s memoir, a ministry for homeless students, and more.
Weekly Wrap 9.13.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Jerry Falwell, Wendell Berry, 9/11, seminaries making historic moves, and more.
Weekly Wrap 9.6.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
#ChurchToo in Nigeria, Margaret Atwood’s new book, Bob Dylan’s overlooked Christian music, and more.
Weekly Wrap 8.30.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Amazon fires split Brazilian Christians, church co-working spaces, reading Ursula Le Guin, and more.
Study Shows Increasing Political Divide Between Younger and Older White Evangelicals
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According to the website FiveThirtyEight, more than half (54 percent) of older white evangelical Christians see immigrants as a burden on American society. But 66 percent of young white evangelical Christians (age 18-34) say that the U.S. is strengthened by immigrants. Only 32 percent of older white evangelical seniors (age 65+) agree.
Weekly Wrap 8.23.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Against the new nationalism, religion in literature, a chicken sandwich war, and more.
Today Is Slavery Remembrance Day
Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot (4 - march 24, 1802). Original illustration by Auguste Raffet, engraving by Hébert.
On this day in 1791, an uprising of enslaved Africans on the island of Saint Domingue (modern Haiti) began.
Weekly Wrap 8.16.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Islamophobia in South Asia, 1619 Project, Simone Biles, and more.
Weekly Wrap 8.9.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
St. Toni Morrison, El Paso, the Second Gilded Age, and more.
Weekly Wrap 8.2.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Linguistics and liberation, climate justice and race, Lil Nas X, and more!
Weekly Wrap 7.26.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Liberty University’s culture of fear, protests in Hawai’i, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, and D.C., Molly of Denali, and more
Trump Administration Considers Setting Refugee Resettlement Ceiling at Zero
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If the administration does indeed set the Presidential Determination close to zero come September, this would follow the Trump administration’s trend of increasingly limiting opportunities for U.S. entry to those fleeing violence and persecution — both as asylum seekers and as refugees.
Weekly Wrap 7.19.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Trump’s racist tweets, Wendell Berry, the cats in Cats, and more!
Weekly Wrap 7.12.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Megan Rapinoe, Iran, violent Buddhists, Latinx politics, and more!
Weekly Wrap 7.5.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
The miracle of migration, writers on the border, James Dobson’s dangerous rhetoric, and more!
Weekly Wrap 6.28.19: 10 Stories You May Have Missed This Week
Checking in on the Boomers, Hong Kong protests, census politicization, an ESPY-nominated Catholic sister, and more in the Weekly Wrap.
WEEKLY WRAP 6.21.19: THE BEST 10 STORIES YOU MISSED THIS WEEK
Quebec’s ‘Secularism’ Bill, the Emanuel Nine, Democrats debate reparations, the new U.S. Poet Laureate, and more!