Weekly Wrap 3.22.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 3.22.19: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. When Your Sexual Harasser Has Keys to Your Apartment

“It’s that murkiness in the numbers, combined with a lack of training and awareness, that has made sexual harassment in housing such a widespread, yet under the radar, problem. But local housing authorities are working to combat the problem on the ground.”

2. The New Zealand Shooter’s Manifesto Shows How White Nationalist Rhetoric Spreads

The same language featured in the alleged gunman’s manifesto is seen in white nationalist writings and outlets around the world.

3. How One Church Tackled Its Community's Affordable Housing Crisis

“What kind of relationship should a congregation develop with a surrounding neighborhood that lacks affordable housing? Could a church, itself, be broken as a gift for others?”

4. US Government Uses Several Clandestine Shelters to Detain Immigrant Children

A Reveal investigation finds the resettlement agency relies on clandestine shelters to hold unaccompanied minors.

5. This Was Not 'God's Plan'

“The terrorist attack at two Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, was no act of God. This was a not part of God’s plan. God is not responsible for these atrocious acts. We are. Christians are.”

6. What the “Wave of Women” Elected in 2018 Looks Like in the 2019 Texas Legislature

This freshman class of female legislators is young, diverse and thanks to the women who came before them, treated as equals in the traditionally male-dominated chambers.

7. When White Privilege Is Disguised as Meritocracy

“The people who use bribery, legacy admissions, and forms of payment to get their children into places of higher education are the same people who vehemently oppose affirmative action.”

8. Teaching Empathy in a World That Creates Religious 'Others'

“Let me tell you what it’s like to walk into a classroom studying world religions after a mass shooting at a house of worship. I know because I’ve done it twice in six months.”

9. Confronting Philosophy’s Anti-Semitism

Should we continue to teach thinkers like Kant, Voltaire and Hume without mention of the harmful prejudices they helped legitimize?

10. Outdoor Voices Blurs the Lines Between Working Out and Everything Else

The brand’s clothes perfectly suit a cultural moment when improving your life style has become a job that’s supposed to be fun.