Via Bloomberg, millennials are opting for jobs instead of enrolling in college. It doesn’t have to be an either-or dilemma. Many employers offer tuition assistance so employees can take advantage of degree programs like Bama By Distance. Through Bama At Work, You can also take advantage of certificate programs, which have the advantage of being cheaper and faster to complete than degrees while providing career-specific skills.
Is news of Christianity’s decline premature?
Via Facebook and the Washington Post, when God is rejected in one place, He goes somewhere else:
While rising numbers of “nones” — those who claim no religious affiliation when asked — claim the attention of religious pundits, the world tells a different story. Religious convictions are growing and shifting geographically in several dramatic ways.
The center of Christianity has shifted from Europe to the global South.
Click the link to see more: Think Christianity is dying? No, Christianity is shifting dramatically - The Washington PostPoints:
- Decline in North America and Europe = 80 percent of the world’s Christians a century ago; 40 percent today.
- Same time frame, more Christians in global South than global North. Africa = 10 percent of world’s Christians a century ago, 25 percent today, 40 percent by 2025
- Asia = 460 million by 2025.
- China = more people at worship services than in USA.
- In general, Christianity is growing world-side.
- Immigration to the US will affect religious patterns.
- Perceived contradiction: those who want greater influence of Christianity in the US oppose immigration of Christians (read Hispanics who happen to be Catholic) to the US.
Don’t fix it if you don’t know why it was made that way to begin with
Via Chesterton.org, a useful principle about change and reform: “The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.’”
Why write in your books
Via Brain Pickings, the importance of writing in your books: “[Marginalia is] simply too essential a canvas for digesting and disputing concepts, too key a voice box for our inner monologue about the world of words and ideas.”
Virginia Woolf on reading
Via Brain Pickings, a recap of Virginia Woolf’s advice on how to read a book: “Woolf — an eloquent champion of the joy of reading — considers reading not a means to some intellectual end, but an intellectual and creative reward in itself.”
Will robots do to jobs what Deep Blue did to Garry Kasparov and Watson to Ken Jennings?
Two items:
What are the ramifications for jobs in these sectors? What must people do to adjust?
Help for the long term unemployed
Via Tuscaloosa News, a non-profit helping the long term unemployed:
Platform to Employment…targets a major scar of the Great Recession: The 2.6 million Americans who have been jobless for over six months. Many of them have long felt ignored by employers who assume their skills, drive or technological know-how have faded.
Platform to Employment provides job-search training before arranging subsidized auditions. This eliminates any risk to employers while giving the jobless an opening to prove themselves.
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