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Notes and quotes: About American Workforce Academy

An article by Salena Zito gives some background about American Workforce Academy that parents and mentors of young people pursuing calling and career should think about. Main point: "[Mike] Rowe has been warning anyone who would listen that our skills gap in the...

UACFSF: Mark Tapscott on working on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC

"Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example..." (1 Timothy 4:12)Find online: #UACFSF, https://www.hillfaith.org/Mark Tapscott of HillFaith dropped in on us via Zoom on 2/25 to tell us about his ministry to Capitol Hill staff. Among other things, he leads a...

UACFSF: God’s intervention in life and history

"Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example..." (1 Timothy 4:12)Find online: #UACFSFAt our 2/18 meeting, we learned how Daniel, in Daniel 2:19-23, acknowledged God's intervention in life and history. Some points to ponder: God alone possesses wisdom and...

Rounding out the Gospel

Via Christianity Today, ensuring compassion joins with proclamation and formation in how the church interacts in communities: I learned that we needed to put compassion front and center. Compassion is a language Christians can understand in our hurting world: the need...

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Rounding out the Gospel

Via Christianity Today, ensuring compassion joins with proclamation and formation in how the church interacts in communities: I learned that we needed to put compassion front and center. Compassion is a language Christians can understand in our hurting world: the need...

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Congestion Tied To Certain Commuters

Via Business Insider: Canceling some car trips from just a few strategically located neighborhoods could drastically reduce gridlock and traffic jams in cities, a new study suggests. The study, conducted amid a global trend toward urbanization, could lead to new...

What college majors got what jobs?

Via Business Insider and Satyan Devadoss: The left side of the circle is broken into 15 parts, each representing a grouping of all majors available at Williams. For example, "Cultural Studies" includes such majors as Anthropology, Sociology, and Asian Studies. The...

What college majors got what jobs?

Via Business Insider and Satyan Devadoss: The left side of the circle is broken into 15 parts, each representing a grouping of all majors available at Williams. For example, "Cultural Studies" includes such majors as Anthropology, Sociology, and Asian Studies. The...

It Takes More Than An IQ Number To Describe How Our Brains Work

Via Business Insider: Intelligence Quotient, or IQ, has been used to sort people, whether job candidates or schoolchildren, for decades. Now, a century after psychologists first came up with the idea of “general intelligence”, the world’s biggest study of its kind has...

It Takes More Than An IQ Number To Describe How Our Brains Work

Via Business Insider: Intelligence Quotient, or IQ, has been used to sort people, whether job candidates or schoolchildren, for decades. Now, a century after psychologists first came up with the idea of “general intelligence”, the world’s biggest study of its kind has...

They Haven’t Built A Better Mousetrap

Via Business Insider: Since William Hooker of Abingdon, Ill. invented the spring-loaded mousetrap in 1894, more than 4,400 patents for new mousetraps have been filed in the U.S. But has anyone really improved on the spring trap? A recent protracted and methodical...

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