Echoes of the sea around us—Human hopes in the balance

Earth’s human life-support system shows signs of failing. Human capacity to alter landscapes and the atmosphere is reaching catastrophic levels. Only the oceans seemed to be beyond control, but still they are not beyond human influence. Limited experience in protecting nature’s integrity, health, and resilience in seascapes offers the potential to reverse sliding global environmental conditions by providing realistic expectations, offering moral fortitude, stimulating imagination, and proffering hope. The ocean’s capacity to evoke human awe and inspiration may be sufficient to focusmankind on the global existential threats we face. It is now vital to heed Rachael Carson’s 1937 prescient observation “Against this cosmic background the lifetime of a particular plant or animal appears not as a drama complete in itself but only as a brief interlude in a panorama of endless change.” The world will keep spinning, whether people are able to enjoy the ride or not

Increasing Happiness in the Workplace

This paper suggests ways for employees to find happiness in their jobs, especially through being engaged with and finding meaning in their work

Competing in a Global Market

Students put complex business practices to work in a global online simulation

Henberg Takes Holistic Approach

Long before the whisper of terms like global warming and carbon footprints, before SIGG bottles and reusable shopping bags, Marvin Henberg was already a committed environmental advocate

Online from Across the Pond

When Hayley Carroll ’18 decided to return to college, an ocean separated her from the American system where she already had her higher-education start. But that didn’t stop her. Carroll, who lives and works in England, is completing a project-management degree through Linfield’s Online and Continuing Education Program while working full time at London builder Harmonix Construction Ltd

A confrontation of economic and theological approaches to “ending poverty” in Africa

We seek to assess the adequacy of an “economic” as opposed to a “Christian” worldview in confronting one of the major challenges to the world, namely the chronic nature of absolute poverty in much of Africa. Our study comprises, first, an overview and contrast of the two approaches in general terms and, second, a critical examination of economist Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty (which undergoes a theological critique) and theologian Ronald Sider’s Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (which is subjected to economic criticism). Overall, we find that economic analyses rely on an excessively narrow view of human motivation, which may vitiate secular attempts to aid development. A blend of Biblical understanding and economic insight is needed for a genuine transformation of the lives of the poor to take place

A study of the attitudes of mothers toward children born with a cleft palate

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit