Category: Paradigm Shifts
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Time to review Missouri’s school calendar
The frigid, snowy, icy start of 2024 is causing havoc with the Missouri schools. In three weeks and heading into a fourth, schools have not been in session with any consistency. And what is happening? Student growth is plateaued at best. At the worst, student growth is sliding downhill just like the…
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Handling a Cultural Shift
The Introduction Today is one of those transitional days. We are honoring our dads and their influences in our lives, and we are closing out spring and moving into true summer. It is interesting how we mark our calendars and how pivotal days like today keep us connected to traditions and guides…
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Examining the Church Family 2021
Introduction Last week we focused on the family of faith through a look at our parents–the mothers and the fathers. Today, we are going to step away from the nucleus family and consider the aunts, uncles, and even cousins in our lives. Therefore, let’s begin getting to know our extended family. Here…
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Enough is Enough: School shootings
I just sent off a letter to the editor at the KC Star. Sometimes I just have enough. Even though I already posted once this morning, I turned to the electronic of the KC Star and could not stop thinking about what has happened in Florida. I can’t let this…
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Journalism’s Paradigm Shift?
Paradigms are long held beliefs that become truths in our lives. This week I have been considering some of the paradigms that have been shattered, cracked, replaced, or altered. One really disturbs me this week and that is the definition or JOURNALISM. Trained as a journalist at the University of…
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