NORTON META TAG

29 June 2020

SOJOURNERS WEEKLY WRAP THE 10 BEST STORIES YOU MISSED THIS WEEK: 1. Put Your Shoes On. We Are Marching, 2. The Second Great Depression, 3. How To Be Alone, 4. The End of the Girlboss Is Here, 5. The Rest Is Only Temporary, 6. Get Police Out of Schools, Including University Campuses,7. The Black Church Has Always Resisted Anti-Blackness, 8. 'Jesus And John Wayne' Explores Christian Manhood — And How Belief Can Bolster Trump, 9. The History of Racism Is Not Past, 10. What's Next for the Poor People's Campaign? 26JUN20

Sojourners
I’ve never been more scared for my Black son, but I knew this is what we had to do.
At least four major factors are terrifying economists and weighing on the recovery.
Karen decided to leave monastic life. She found a rent-free cabin a few hours away in Colt Run Holler, W.Va. She moved in with just $100 and an old Ford Bronco. Alone in the woods, she became a hermit.
The girlboss didn’t change the system; she thrived within it. Now that system is cracking, and so is this icon of millennial hustle.
Immigrants have been willing to carry these oppressive burdens because there are no other options to make a way for our status in the system.
Calls to defund and abolish police departments have fueled movements to dismantle and defund police on college campuses.
On the 155th observance of Juneteenth, a collective of Black church pastors and theologians released a theological statement to ‘emphatically repudiate the evil beast of white racism, white supremacy, white superiority and its concomitant and abiding anti-Black violence.’
What does it mean to be a Christian man?
This history runs through, into, and over my interracial children.
We have said from the very beginning of our work together that our goal is to shift the moral narrative in this country. And we know that means changing who holds power.

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