Relationships and Community on Education

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School Segregation Continues

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Today the public school system in Jackson is about 98 percent black. Some of this resegregation came about simply because of where people live—after all, the population of Jackson is about 80 percent ...

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Blessing of the Backpacks

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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois

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Proverbs 22:6, Proverbs 18:15

Leader: Jesus, we praise you, and thank you for the gift of education and for the opportunity to start fresh with a new school year! We ask for your protection over students of all ages, from the ...

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Blessing College Students as They Leave for School

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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia

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Consider offering this blessing during worship the second Sunday in August. This is often the last Sunday college students are in worship before they return to school. This prayer could also be used d...

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Career Options for a Latino Student

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Samuel Rodriguez

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I’ll never forget sitting in the guidance counselor’s office my freshman year in high school in the Lehigh Valley area between Philadelphia and Allentown, where I grew up. The purpose of our meeting w...

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William Temple

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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

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Martin Luther

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When schools flourish, all flourishes.

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Schoolwork through Different Experiences

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Shawn Achor

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In the fall of 2009, I was invited to go on a month-long speaking tour throughout Africa. During the trip, a CEO from South Africa named Salim took me to Soweto, a township just outside of Johannesbur...

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Blessing of Educators

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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia

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Loving God, Bless the educators among us. Fill them with inspiration, wisdom, and encouragement for this school year. Strengthen them in body, mind and spirit. Keep them safe. Provide needed funding...

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Norman Wirzba

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A gardener’s education begins with the realization that we are never exempt from the needs and requirements of care. It is formed through sustained attention to and responsibility for the places that ...

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Taking Learning Very Seriously

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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.

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In ancient Judaism, discipleship was taken very seriously. It was taken so seriously that eager disciples would ty to follow their rabbi (teacher) everywhere they went. Why? Because they wanted to see...

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Prayer for Schools and Colleges

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O Eternal God, bless all schools, colleges, and universities [and especially ___________], that they may be lively centers for sound learning, new discovery, and the pursuit of wisdom; and grant that ...

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Blessing Educators and Support Staff at the Start of the School Year

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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia

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Eternal God, Maker of all that is seen and unseen, thank you for the great gifts of learning, growing, and discovering. Thank you for all who are standing here today, and for the millions more who’ve ...

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John Wesley

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2 Timothy 3:7, Luke 10:38-42, Matthew 22:34-40, James 3:17, Colossians 3:14, 1 Corinthians 13:2, 1 Corinthians 8:1

Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

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Jesus: You gave us Your love at a high

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Richard Herman

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1 Timothy 2:1-4, 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, Hebrews 13:20-21, Philippians 4:13, 2 Corinthians 5:20

Jesus: You gave us Your love at a high price – Your own death on the cross in our place! By Your grace you give us eternal life and entrust to us Your creation. Thank You, Lord! We come today as Y...

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Blessing Students as They Return to School

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Welcoming One, we welcome you and we welcome another school year. Thank you for the blessings of learning and growing, thinking and creating, reasoning and discovering. Fulfill these blessings in ever...

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Gwendolyn Brooks

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We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

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David Brooks

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Marriage

Marriage starts as a joy and ends up an education.

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One Step Away from Disaster

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D. L. Mayfield

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I was teaching an English class in a high-rise apartment complex full of low-income families in Minneapolis—mostly immigrant and refugees from East Africa. The tenants’ association paid for me to come...

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The Economics of Child-Sponsorship

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Bruce Wydick

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While I was at a concert in college, I responded to a flyer requesting volunteers to sponsor a child overseas. For years I read the letters from this little girl in El Salvador. Ruth seemed happy to b...

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Henry Drummond

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Galatians 6:10, John 13:1-17, Luke 10:25-37, Colossians 3:14, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Philippians 2:3-4, 1 John 4:7-8

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. A...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though ...

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The Science of Happiness

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Brian Fikkert and Kelly M. Kapic

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What makes people happy? People have sought the answer to this question for thousands of years, but in the past two decades there has been an explosion of scientific research on this topic. In his pre...

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Honoring and Leaving

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A. J. Swoboda

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Exodus 20:12, Jeremiah 35:18–19, Proverbs 22:1, Philippians 2:3–4, Matthew 6:1, Psalm 37:5–6

The challenge each of these faced in their deconstruction—and what we may face—is walking the tightrope between becoming our own person and honoring our past. In The Homeless Mind , sociologist P...

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Preventing Vengeance

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Mia Levetan

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Genesis 4:8–15, Exodus 21:23–25, Micah 6:6–8 , Matthew 5:38–45, Romans 12:17–21, Psalm 46:9–10

I did some of my Clinical Pastoral Education Units in Gastonia. One of the units that I served was the Emergency Department. If there was an incident that was suspected to be gang related, they would ...

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A Love that Will Not Let Me Go

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Genesis 29:15–30, Job 1:2, 19:25, Isaiah 54:4–10 , John 21:15–19, Romans 8:35–39, Psalm 34:18

George Matheson was just entering the bewildering teenage years when doctors informed him he was going blind. Undeterred, he pressed on with his education and graduated from the University of Glasgow ...

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The Segregated South: Separate and Unequal

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John M. Perkins

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Exodus 23:9, Leviticus 19:33-34 , Isaiah 1:17, Luke 10:25-37 , Galatians 3:28, Psalm 82:3-4

Desegregation was one of the big goals of the civil rights movement. “Separate but equal” in the South became “separate and unequal.” The disparities were in things as small as water fountains and as ...

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We cannot have true justice unless

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John M. Perkins

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Micah 6:8, Exodus 22:21-22 , Isaiah 58:6-7 , Matthew 22:37-39, James 2:1-9 , Psalm 103:6

We cannot have true justice unless it is motivated by love, just as God’s greatest act of justice, sending Jesus to die for us, was motivated by love. Years ago, before the emancipation of slaves, Fre...

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Freeing Modern-Day Slaves in South Asia

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Gary A. Haugen

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Exodus 1:15-21 , Isaiah 58:6, Jeremiah 22:3 , John 8:32, Acts 16:16-40, Psalm 146:7-9

A particularly brutal set of slave owners we recently encountered in South Asia held more than twenty slaves in a rice mill. They and their thugs beat the slaves, sexually assaulted the women, even do...

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A New Direction for Family Discipleship

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Brian Dembowczyk

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If the Prof is 10 min late... I was in my freshman year in college, and Statistics was the final class before Thanksgiving break. When the professor was ten minutes late, I and several others got up ...

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Father God–You are a God of grace and

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Richard Herman

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Ephesians 4:2-3, Micah 6:8, John 16:33, Psalm 147:3, Romans 15:13, Jeremiah 17:14

Father God–You are a God of grace and abundance, who blesses us with more than a shower of blessings but a downpour of mercies. We rejoice with friends in new marriages, and in the strength of lasting...

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