Make your mug matter
GoodWorks Coffee & Tea founder shares his effort to empower farmers, train at-risk orphans for employment and brew well. It’s 4:32 p.m. when the wheels screech hitting the ground in Beijing, China. Just 50 miles away is a “small city”
At-promise
Flailing dropouts and young, struggling parents revisit education at LA’s Reconnections Career Academy. Even after he dropped out of high school, Edwin Escobar still found ways to channel his inner-Banksy, a UK-based graffiti artist. Unfortunately, none of them were legal. He’d run the
The Barefoot Approach
Tucked into the village of Tilonia in Rajasthan, India, is a school that is redefining what it means to receive an education and breaking down barriers for rural villagers across the developing world. As a young college student in the 1960s,
Should world religion be taught in schools?
America is one of the most religiously diverse countries on Earth and yet we remain dangerously ignorant about religion. In a 2010 survey, the Pew Forum asked more than 3,000 Americans some simple questions about the world’s religions. Most respondents could
Education is life
The violence against Malala Yousafzi wasn’t an isolated incident. Around the world, people—girls, in particular—fight to earn an education. The world recently cried #BringBackOurGirls as nearly 300 high-school girls were held captive. The name of the extremist group responsible for
Compassionate empathy
Except I am moved with compassion, How dwellest thy Spirit in me? Albert Orsborn asked that question for Salvationists a few decades ago, and it’s one we need to ask ourselves every day. Empathy, the process of “understanding a person’s subjective experience while