Carry an education
A porter named Benson helped Matthew Clough summit Mt. Kilimanjaro, carrying a heavy rucksack and thus enabling Clough to reach the top. On the climb down, Clough learned that Benson didn’t earn enough to put a child through school. Eager
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
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
Building people
Everyone believes that they know what and how children should become educated, and act unafraid in sharing that information. That includes me. Yet differing educational philosophies promote widely diverging means and ends. As education became more nationalized, it imposed a philosophy based
Greening Education
What if happy meals resulted in happy kids and a happier, healthier world? What if students were able to grow them in schools? Our Green Bronx Machine is a non-profit dedicated to growing, re-using, resourcing and recycling our way into
It’s for the birds!
BODY BUILDER This is an extraordinary and, at the same time, difficult time in the history of the territory. It's a time when administration is trying to empower those on the front line without (as they say) "throwing out the baby
IN FOCUS – The virtue of faith
One Sunday morning, not long ago, we sang Herbert Booth's great song, "I bring to Thee my heart to fill" (SASB 489). After the meeting, my close friend Gary said, "The best line in the whole songbook is that line,
Kevin Dean: “I was living like an animal”
IN PROCESS Disoriented and fatigued, the man climbed into his bed at the Van Nuys ARC, laid his head back, and sighed. Glancing out the window, he noticed a thin sliver of sky between the buildings, and suddenly was overcome
On the Corner
BY ROBERT DOCTER - Most people say they want to find happiness. Sounds like happiness is a lost dog. "Here Happiness
YouthQuake 6.02 – turning the world upside down
These who have turned the world upside down have come here too. (Acts 17:6:2 NKJV) We have all kinds of names to describe them, some not very complimentary. We worry about them. We are anxious for them. They can
Frontlines — News Briefs of the West
"God had an only Son and he made him a missionary," said David Livingston, Scottish missionary and explorer, who spent more than 30 years ministring in Africa (including today's Zambia and Malawi). Salvationists throughout the West have a heart
Estonia on the move
FIVE NEW soldiers are enrolled in Kopli Corps, Estonia. The Salvation Army in Estonia has experienced growth in its senior corps with the recent enrollment of five new soldiers by Major Wes Sundin, regional officer for Estonia. Majors Wes and