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Weekly Wrap 4.10.20 The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Staying home for Easter, a cathedral converted to a hospital, defying despair, and more.
Weekly Wrap 4.3.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Last rites via zoom, wartime metaphors, Portugal protects migrants, and more.
Weekly Wrap 3.27.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Church in Kairos time, refusing to physically gather for worship, coping with anxiety in a pandemic, and more.
Weekly Wrap 3.20.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Lessons from plagues, the younger Catholic Workers, and loving your neighbor according to kids.
Weekly Wrap 3.13.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Our new normal in a time of coronavirus: pastoring, loving our neighbor, preserving mental health, and more.
Weekly Wrap 3.6.2020: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Coronavirus, Christian nationalists, politicians using Matthew 25, and more.
Weekly Wrap 2.28.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Lenten fasting, Wilberforce’s drug addiction, cracks in the GOP-evangelical alliance, and more.
Weekly Wrap 2.21.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
A nun’s Amazon journey, racist abolitionists, your right to vote, and more.
Weekly Wrap 2.14.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Social reform evangelicals, Bill Barr’s authoritarianism, privacy in dating apps, and more.
Weekly Wrap 2.7.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Richard Rohr’s universalism, religious liberty, National Prayer Breakfast, Shakira, and more.
Trump Takes Aim at Romney, Pelosi at National Prayer Breakfast
President Donald Trump holds up a copy of USA Today's front page as he arrives to address the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Feb. 6, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis
At Thursday's National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump kicked off his remarks by pointing to the "terrible ordeal" of impeachment, apparently taking aim at Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who voted to convict the president on the charge of abuse of power a day earlier, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who said recently she prays for the president.
Senate Votes to Acquit Trump, Romney Lone Republican Dissent
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) walks from the senate chamber during a break in the Senate impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 31, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
The Republican-controlled Senate has voted not to remove President Donald Trump from office by a vote of 52-48 on the abuse of power charge and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) was the lone Republican vote to convict on abuse of power.
Weekly Wrap 1.31.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Activists addressing SBC abuse, Agro-ecology in Guatemala, and Kylo Ren's Undercover Boss part 2.
Weekly Wrap 1.24.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Pro-gun civil disobedience, ‘American Dirt’ controversy, quitting the priesthood, and more.
Trump to Attend 'March for Life' as Pence Wraps Up Papal Visit
Marchers rally at the Supreme Court during the 46th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. Jan. 18, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
On Friday, President Donald Trump prepared to be the first U.S. president to attend the March for Life, the annual gathering of anti-abortion activists and faith groups in Washington, D.C., just after Vice President Mike Pence met with Pope Francis during an unusually long audience at the Vatican.
Rev. Schenck Criticizes Falwell's Call for Pro-Gun Civil Disobedience
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Since November, more than 100 local municipalities, counties, cities, and towns have called for their residents to become Second Amendment Sanctuary cities and oppose “unconstitutional restrictions” on guns. Falwell also told Starnes that he would not be surprised if citizens and law enforcement officers “in the good part of Virginia” decided not to enforce whatever laws are passed.
Weekly Wrap 1.17.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Bohnoeffer scholars issue statement of concern, documenting the journey of fleeing Venezuelans, how to fix democracy with design, and more.
Weekly Wrap 1.10.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
Rumi, avoiding war with Iran, British royals-at-large, and more.
Conservative Super PAC Takes Aim at Trump-Supporting Evangelicals
Faith leaders pray with Trump in the Oval Office, September 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
The super PAC juxtaposes footage of prominent white evangelical leaders praising the president with derogatory and violent quotes from Trump himself, with the assumed aim of illuminating a religious hypocrisy among Trump-voting Christians.
Weekly Wrap 1.3.20: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week
The end of white Christian America, ‘The Two Popes,’ fighting winter dread, and more.