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Laura Jean Torgerson
Laura Jean Torgerson is director of education and mission for the Disciples Seminary Foundation in Northern California.
The gift of relying on others
Briallen Hopper develops an alternative to the twin American creeds of self-reliance and marriage.
Do something! But what?
The whole Kony-video thing seems to be over. Most of the
millions of viewers watched the half-hour film about Joseph
Kony right after Invisible Children released it. The group's action
kits are sold out. Lots of thoughtful criticism has been written and widely shared.
Yet I keep coming back to it, because these
conversations have revolved around questions I wrestle with regularly as a
missionary in Nicaragua.
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