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If you’ve seen the movie “Up,” you’ll understand why a reporter and I were laughing at ourselves after having literally gotten distracted from what we were working on by a graphic about squirrels the other day. Somehow or another, she had stumbled across a graphic tweeted by the Ohio Division of Wildlife in honor of Squirrel Appreciation Day. Sadly, the event was well past (Jan. 21), but that didn’t stop us from diving in.
In the graphic are photos and descriptions of five Ohio squirrel species. I was surprised I had never heard of two of them. And I’ve only seen two of them.
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At the height of the coronavirus pandemic last April, when celebrities around the world were lecturing us via tweet to stay home and wear a mask, British novelist J. K. Rowling took a different approach. As kids were forced to forego school and interactions with friends, she published a new children’s book and released it in free installments for families stuck at home. The novel,
The Ickabog, was published in full this past Thanksgiving. Proceeds from sales of the book are donated to communities hurt most by COVID-19.
Rowling has said that the Ickabog story first came to her years ago, when her own children were young. She wrote the book during the period in which she wrote the
Do We Know Why Educated Adventists Leave the Church?
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December 17, 2020
Seventh-day Adventism is probably the most upwardly mobile church in Christendom, thanks in large part to its policy of starting schools wherever new churches are “planted.” Adventists in the United States are illustrative of this trajectory. The data in its current form, though more anecdotal than robust, suggest that when new members join the church their socio-economic statuses increase over a much shorter time than the norm. The catalyst for this upward movement, it seems, is the church’s philosophy of emphasis on education. This is not a Western-world-only Adventist phenomenon. The pattern is replicated even more strikingly in developing countries where new church membership, education and upward mobility all seem to track. Countries like Ghana, Kenya and Jamaica confirm the trend.