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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Bringing Gen Z into the workforce
Gen Z, the newest generation, is on the verge of entering the US workforce in great numbers. How can we help with that transition? Caitlin McGaw has a think piece suggesting ways to support the Gen Z transition into the workforce. While her article targets a specific...
Why should young people pay attention to what old people are doing?
If you're a young person, you'll be old one day. How you spend those older years will depend on how well you've prepared. A linked article, which is something of an infomercial, gives some statistics about what people want to do when they retire, i.e., the bucket...
Help for the long term unemployed
Via Tuscaloosa News, a non-profit helping the long term unemployed: Platform to Employment…targets a major scar of the Great Recession: The 2.6 million Americans who have been jobless for over six months. Many of them have long felt ignored by employers who assume...
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...
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...
The question is how
Via Verge, a call for true leadership development: “…while most churches believe they have leadership development programs, in actuality they have programs that recruit and train volunteers.” The article leaves the next step up to you: how to develop leaders to impact...
The question is how
Via Verge, a call for true leadership development: “…while most churches believe they have leadership development programs, in actuality they have programs that recruit and train volunteers.” The article leaves the next step up to you: how to develop leaders to impact...
Our robot overlords
Via NBC, robots replacing the human workforce: “In the manufacturing industry, a recent study by Boston Consulting Group found that by 2025 robots will do about 25 percent of all industrial tasks—and that inexpensive robots are becoming increasingly available to...