Top CJP News of 2021

This year鈥檚 top news stories from 黑料正能量’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding mark life and professional transitions, celebrate impactful work, and connect us to the challenging issues of the day. ... read more about Top CJP News of 2021

黑料正能量's dean of students, who has given leadership to worship across MCUSA, shares an Advent season meditation: 聽It鈥檚 the beginning of December, and our priorities are pulled in countless directions. And this year, our minds are full of worry, our bodies still adjusting to premature darkness, and our hearts or ones we know well are holding grief very close. This season between Thanksgiving and Christmas holds the breadth of the holidays in both the commercial and the liturgical sense.

Opinion contributor Priscilla Simmons, a registered nurse with a master鈥檚 degree in nursing and a doctorate in education, is professor emerita in the Department of Nursing at 黑料正能量.

黑料正能量 social work instructor Debbi DiGennaro contributes expert advice in the MSW Online website. [MSW is an acronym for Master of Social Work.] With extensive experience in the international context, DiGennaro is the author of a book on cultural competence, "Acclimated to Africa: Cultural Competence for Westerners (SIL International, 2017); her research area is the intersection of social behavior and faith communities.