Weekly Wrap 4.15.16: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 4.15.16: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

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1. Trump’s Bible Fail: He Names His Favorite Verse But Doesn’t Understand It
He named a concept, not so much a verse in particular. And other problems …

2. What Does Freddie Gray Mean to You?
“One year after the death of Freddie Gray, The Baltimore Sunasked city leaders and residents what Freddie Gray means to them.”

3. Why Didn’t Houston Face Backlash for HERO’s Repeal?
“… the fact that Houston skated away from any kind of meaningful backlash [for repealing Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance] is surprising. Residents of Charlotte are being punished because of the actions of their governor and state legislature, but the people of Houston are not being singled out for their own vote.”

4. How Do You Change Voters’ Minds? Have a Conversation.
Groundbreaking?

5. Is Parenthood the Enemy of Creative Work?
“Because the point of art is to unsettle, to question, to disturb what is comfortable and safe. And that shouldn’t be anyone’s goal as a parent.”

6. Supreme Court May Have Found a Way Forward in Contraception Case
And it might just make all parties [relatively] happy.

7. Time to Think Bigger About the Refugee Crisis
Bono presents a three-part suggestion for dealing with the refugee crisis. “Hope is not lost in the Middle East and North Africa, not yet, not even where it’s held together by string. But hope is getting impatient. We should be, too.”

8. Inside the Blackwater Founder’s Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force
“If he succeeded, Prince would possess two prototypes that would lay the foundation for a low-cost, high-powered air force capable of generating healthy profits while fulfilling his dream of privatized warfare.”

9. Video Claims to Show Nigerian Girls Kidnapped by Militants Two Years Ago
More than 200 Nigerian girls remain missing on the two-year anniversary of their abduction by Boko Haram. A new video, reportedly filmed in December, claims they are “all well.”

10. Darth Vader’s Suit Would Cost $18.3 Million in Real Life
The more you know.