Nicole Baker Fulgham is the founder and president of The Expectations Project, a nonprofit organization that develops & mobilizes faith-motivated advocates who help close the academic achievement gap in public schools. She is the author of Educating All God’s Children: What Christians Can – and Should – Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids. […]
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There are many things Bend, Oregon is known for: we’ve got more brew pubs per capita than anywhere in the states, we were dubbed “dogtown USA” last year for having some 27,000 dogs for 80,000 people, there are more mountain bike miles than any other geographical area this size and this week we were just
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Mark and Lisa Scandrette are co authors of the book, FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters most. Lisa is an educator and textile artist and Mark is the founding director of ReIMAGINE: A Center for Integrative Christian Practice based in San Francisco. A sought after teacher he is also the author of
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Guest Blog by Tabitha Sikich ********************** I was recently sitting at a local cafe here in Bend, Oregon when a little green card laying in front of me on the table caught my attention. It had these words printed on it: could you go to prison for a cause you believed in The question was
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(Partially adapted from Chapter 4 of Pursuing Justice) There is a lot of talk these days about self-denial, doing justice, being radical and giving your life away. There are bestsellers on the topic urging us to forget ourselves and study after study deploring the state of our consumer-driven society and our need to focus less
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Jenny Yang is the Vice President of Advocacy and Policy for World Relief in Washington, DC. In this role, Jenny works with members of Congress, their staffers and Administration to improve refugee and immigration policy. She also educates and mobilizes Christians across the country to be informed about and ground their response to immigration on
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Jubilee and Micah Bournes will both be performing at Antioch this Sunday…should be a pretty fun morning! I love it when artists seek to use their art to make the world a better place. Jubilee has a simple motto: “Do what you love to undo what you hate.” They have committed to being a ‘non-profit’ band, leveraging their
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Ever feel like your church is missing something important? What do you do? No one wants to be a complainer, but you don’t want to ignore the problem either. How do you get involved? How do you become the solution? I love this Redux video from Abraham George about encouraging your church to care about
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Guest Blog by Melissa McCreery I recently read New York Time’s bestseller An Invisible Thread — the true story of ad executive Laura Schroff and her unlikely friendship with Maurice, an 11-year-old homeless boy panhandling the streets of Manhattan. I was on one of my frequent excursions into the Barnes & Noble labyrinth of shelves
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Guest Bloggers: Melissa McCreery, VP of Development at Kilns College Do Grades Hinder the Learning Process? According to the story “Secret World of Student Cheaters” featured on the Today Show earlier this week, a new survey reports that 63 percent of college students admit to cheating. It seems a majority of students are looking for
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