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Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission InterviewsTest-optional admissions yields benefitsIn this episode you will hear: (07:02) In this week’s “In the news segment”, an article from Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed. The article is entitled, “Test-optional admissions yields benefits.” The article looks at on the topic was published in the American Educational Research Journal. The paper, by Christopher T. Bennett, who is finishing up his doctorate at Vanderbilt where he is studying this issue. The article examines the impact of test-optional admissions on nearly 100 private colleges that adopted their policies between 2005-06 and 2015-16. Mark and Dave discuss the results of Bennett’s research and Dave asks a lot of pertinen...2021-06-031h 54
Seattle Mennonite Church SermonsPursuing God's Will TogetherA group has been meeting weekly for the past couple of months, going chapter-by-chapter through "Pursuing God's Will Together" by Ruth Haley Barton, a foundational text for the spiritual discerning we have done as church the past 7+ years. Jennifer Delanty was commissioned by the group to share with our congregation some of what they've been learning, wondering, and practicing together. Listen as she explores Jesus' experience of transfiguration, alongside our own experience of transformation, as we pursue holy indifference to anything but God's invitation to us. [Sermon begins at minute 20:15.]--Scripture: Luke 9.28-45Image: "Pursuing...2021-02-141h 02
Seattle Mennonite Church SermonsJennifer Delanty's PNMC ReflectionsPastor Jonathan reads from Jennifer's experience of Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference.2019-08-2103 minSeattle Mennonite Church SermonsTelling Stories of Land and Ancestors"We want our forbears to stand on the right side of history...perhaps these cognitive gymnastics are a vain attempt to justify what is actually untenable." Jennifer Delanty talks about her realization as an adult the way the stories she'd been told as a child about one grandfather's infidelity and another's profitable land dealings erase the victimization and appropriation of indigenous persons and their land."I still remember the deed of our land in Oklahoma, signed over by the Cherokee nation, as they went on the Trail of Tears." Kyle Reimergartin walks into this declaration by his M...2019-01-2922 min