Category Archives: Academics
Avoiding first-year pitfalls
Failing to find the right balance of social life, work, and study may be the single most common mistake college freshmen make, according to campus ministers, chaplains, and student-life staff. Continue reading
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Career and Calling: Making a Life, Not Just a Living
Career and calling–two words that appear to be different ways of saying the same thing. Though they are sometimes used interchangeably, they are actually very different. Continue reading
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Unconventional businessman shares profits with the people
Clad in blue jeans and a T-shirt, Hal Taussig, 82, rides his bicycle to work every day and hasn’t owned a car since 1971. “I gave my last car away to a hitchhiker,” recalls Taussig. Continue reading
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Studying Abroad: Finding God in the Most Unexpected Places
My jaw dropped as we drove up the mile-long driveway to what would become my home for the next three and a half months. Over the past 36 hours, I had slept a mere two hours, suffered through seven plane delays, navigated three airports with four suitcases, and said goodbye to everything I had ever known for my newest adventure. Continue reading
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Ethics Course Has Students Reflecting on Universal Themes
Twenty-year-old Kudzai Mukumba didn’t know what to expect when she saw Christian Ethics and Values on her list of required courses at Africa University. Continue reading
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