Weekly Wrap 9.14.18: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 9.14.18: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. You Owe Me an Apology

“Serena's declaration was an instantaneous declaration of freedom. Freedom for every woman who deserves an apology from the boss who gave her a #MeToo story to tell.”

2. Women Rally for More Inclusion at Toronto Film Festival

“Because our north star is not diversity. It is not inclusion. But it is belonging. We must all feel as if our voices and our stories matter.”

3. Franklin Graham’s Uneasy Alliance with Donald Trump

The evangelical pastor is well aware of the critique often levelled against him: that he’s more politically and spiritually partisan than his father, Billy.

4. Getting Over The Threat Of Hell

"Whoever has the more intriguing narrative wins, and people underestimate the unspoken terror of being on the losing side, where the cost is your soul."

5. Don't Pity Puerto Rico. Instead, Listen.

To grasp the trauma of this disaster is to pull back the veil of the island’s precarious relationship with the United States as a colonial possession. How do you survive a storm that has raged for over a hundred years?

6. The Deadly Apathy of White America

"The ability to function freely as an African American in the United States is still a truth unknown to too many."

7. 'He Belongs To The World': The Powerful Work Of A Jailed Bangladeshi Photographer

Photojournalist and activist Shahidul Alam has helped nurture a generation of South Asian photographers. He was jailed last month on charges of "spreading propaganda and false information."

8. When You Hate a Black Man's Silent Protest So Much, You Ban Nike In Your City.

In the wake of Nike revealing Colin Kaepernick as the face of the 30th anniversary of the “Just Do It” campaign, haters have been out in full force to express their displeasure at Nike…

9. “CrossFit is my church”

How fitness classes provide the meaning that religion once did.

10. The Shocking Attack On Teacher Pay

Working three jobs, renting out their homes: decades of regressive tax cuts have driven the teacher wage penalty to record levels — and are forcing educators to take desperate measures.

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