Tag: education
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Who Challenges Me?
Series: Mentors Who Changed MeTuesday, August 18, 2026 Who challenges you to use the gifts you have been given? I have been reading A Year with American Saints by G. Scott Cady and Christopher L. Webber. The person featured for August 18 is Jacob Abbott, and I found myself identifying with him. Abbott was born…
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Some Places Become Holy
Series: Places That Shape UsThursday, August 13, 2026 What was your first classroom like? My first school had six grades in one room with a single teacher. That was in 1954. Over the span of my elementary school, high school, college, and seminary education, I have sat in many classrooms. I have been taught by…
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Standing on the Shoulders of Those Who Believed in Us
There is an old saying that we stand on the shoulders of giants. I have discovered another truth along life’s journey: we all stand on the shoulders of someone who believed in us. As I look back over seventy-six years, I realize that many of the people who shaped my life never became famous. They…
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From a One-Room Schoolhouse to a Lifetime of Learning: A Tribute to Teachers Who Shaped My Life
For the first years of my education, I attended Union School in Greene County, Mississippi — a small, rural school where six grades shared one room, and the seventh and eighth grades were together in another. Looking back, it feels almost like a scene from a history book, but for me, it was simply where…
The Curious Pilgrim 