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Weekly Wrap 6.14.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Our new look, changes in the SBC, the real meaning of identity, hope for the long haul work of justice, and more in the Weekly Wrap.
Weekly Wrap 6.7.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
A humanitarian is criminally charged, Hijabs in women’s rights, LGBTQ culture in Asia, young scientists from Colombia, and more!
Weekly Wrap 5.31.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Adoption and religious freedom, a moral budget, Muslim persecution in China, intersectionality debates, and more!
Weekly Wrap 5.24.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Can you convert a climate denier, the first woman president of New York Theological Seminary, the legacy of Jean Vanier, and more in the Weekly Wrap.
Weekly Wrap 5.17.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Black Millennial faith, bodies in deserts, global religious persecution, climate warriors, and more!
Weekly Wrap 5.10.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Collective grief, generational war, cultivating joy, and more!
Weekly Wrap 5.3.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Traveling library, ERA hearing, Father Ted, public beaches, and more!
Weekly Wrap 4.26.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Women’s church leadership, London’s Extinction Rebellion, America’s messiah complex, and more!
Weekly Wrap 4.19.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Holy Week, cults, spring healing, prison abolition, and more!
Weekly Wrap 4.12.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Nielsen’s role in family separation, Islamophobia in Brazil and in the past, friends officiating weddings, and more!
Weekly Wrap 4.5.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Buttigieg and the Religious Right, God as mother, oceans drowning in plastic, Jesus in trap music, and more!
Weekly Wrap 3.29.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Jordan Peele, youth leading on climate change, reauthorizing VAWA, faith and fear amid gun culture, and more!
Weekly Wrap 3.22.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
New Zealand reflections, churches tackling affordable housing, harassment in housing, the diverse Texas legislature, and more!
Weekly Wrap 3.15.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
The resurgent Sanctuary Movement, becoming a peace church, sex education, newsroom diversity, and more!
Weekly Wrap 3.8.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Women shaping church, post-purity culture, Colombian scientists, Captain Marvel, and more!
Weekly Wrap 3.1.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
United Methodist vote causes pain, ancient resistance for women’s history month, anger is contagious, grace amid cancel culture, and more!
United Methodists Pass 'Traditional Plan' Strengthening LGBTQ Restrictions
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The decision-making body of the United Methodist Church on Tuesday voted to clarify and strengthen the restrictions on LGBTQ members, in a plan that many observers say is unconstitutional. The Traditional Plan passed by a vote of 438-384.
Weekly Wrap 2.22.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
United Methodists decide their future, Southern Baptists respond to sex abuse report, church aid at the Venezuela-Colombia border, history of the public library, and more!
Southern Baptist Convention Announces Call to Action on Sexual Abuse
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The announcement follows a stunning report on hundreds of sexual abuse and misconduct cases in the Southern Baptist Church.
Weekly Wrap 2.15.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Parkland anniversary, sexual abuse and reformation, prisoners of hope, urban agriculture, deconstruction, and more!