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I recently attended a talk at a fundraiser where the presenter, Amy McLaren, discussed her story of going to Kenya with her husband and making a deal with a child there that if he shares his report card with them at the end of the each month, they would pay for a month of his schooling. They didn’t expect him to follow through, but after they returned back to Canada, a month later they received a letter with a picture of this boy holding up his report card....

Belonging is complicated. There are many places we can find belonging, that feeling of identifying with and being part of a group that’s bigger than we are: families, clubs, ethnicities, secret societies, political parties, and football teams, to name a few. Feeling that we are part of a wider group can give purpose and meaning to our lives, and research suggests that belonging to a community correlates to better mental and physical health....

Now, Bungie isn’t going at this alone. It enlisted the help of a major Chinese tech company called NetEase Games. This company has had a minority stake in Bungie since 2018. Together, these two companies are making the game. This news was spotted by The Game Post on LinkedIn. One game artist working at NetEase Games added to their profile that they helped work on an “unannounced FPS mobile game” with Bungie....

In September, the year of Our Lord 1954, a gifted young minister from Atlanta named Martin Luther King, Jr., accepted his first pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was 25 years old, and in the language of the Academy, he took his first job when he was ABD at Boston University’s School of Theology—All But Dissertation—which is a common and necessary practice for scholars who have completed their course work and have families to feed....

“News about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying. EU’s Digital Services Act requires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights. This is reinforced under our Media Freedom Act. Elon Musk should be aware of that,” Jourova tweeted earlier today. “There are red lines. And sanctions, soon,” she added. The EU hasn’t released a formal statement on the matter yet. The EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter suspended several journalists The EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter suspended several journalists...