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Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week!
SPIRITUALITY
Easter’s Blow to My Social Apathy
This is what it means to be a Christian—on Easter Sunday and every day. God’s people are called to risk their lives for those whose voices have been stifled. One day this will be memorialized, not in a garden, but in a city whose builder and maker is God….Read Full Article
From Christianity Today
GENEALOGY
The Neanderthal and the Bedouin
Is there a strength in our deep relatedness we can call on now? Is there hope to be found in something about our humanity that we have forgotten? We find ourselves wondering: What else do our bones know?…Read Full Article
From Dialogue
KNOWLEDGE
Librarians: Knowledge Curators for Our Communities
It’s National Library Week, and a lot has changed since the week was first celebrated in 1958. Information is coming at us at ever-faster rates: According to The Atlantic, between 1994 and 2014 the number of websites on the internet grew by 33 million percent. And thanks to Internet Live Stats, you can watch, in real time, the escalating number of blogs posted, tweets sent, and photos uploaded to Instagram…Read Full Article
From sojourners
PEOPLE POWER
In Berlin, a Model for Creative and Affordable Housing
Cities with vibrant arts, music, and social scenes are being hit hard by gentrification. But Berlin’s “co-housing culture” shows that a city’s future doesn’t have to go that way…Read Full Article
From yes!magazine
RELIGION
Entering Religious Life Doesn’t Mean Leaving The World Behind
And I said to her, “I don’t know what it’s like to live your life. And I want to be here for you.” One of the things that our love can do is to enter into those really, really hard places that many people are afraid of…Read Full Article
From npr
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