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on strengths…

We were talking the other day about the StrengthsFinder assessment in class so I went back and dug out my results. I think where I am today makes perfect sense when you look at what my strengths are. Have you taken the StrengthsFinder? What were your results?
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Strategic
The Strategic theme enables you to sort through the [...]

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on handbaskets and places we’re headed…

This is the latest response I had to write for my Community Development class. Our topic this week was about the environment and development issues, specifically those related to clean water.
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“One day—and it won’t be long—we are going to wake up and it is just going to be too late.” This quote from Mahesh Chaturvedi, [...]

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on mission…

I had to write a mission statement for one of my grad school classes, so here it is…
It is the desire of human beings to be known. We desire to be known by our God, our families, our friends, and our neighbors. Being known is being loved. The rich often have easy access to the [...]

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on forgiveness and responsibility…

Approximately 12 million people were transported from the coast of West Africa to the America’s over the course of the Atlantic slave trade. On the eve of the Civil War there was just shy of 4 million people enslaved in the United States. By current estimates there are around 27 million slaves in the world [...]

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on speaking truth to power…

From Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice by Daniel Groody
“In large part, the root cause of global injustice is anchored in a fundamental theological and anthropological error that has been referred to today as ‘money-theism.’ Money-theism deals with the idolization of capital, expressed as worship of the gods of the marketplace, and is often practiced through the rituals of [...]

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