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Posted May 5, 2021 Trinity Haven’s ribbon-cutting ceremony. Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Indianapolis [Diocese of Indianapolis] Even before the ribbon was cut to officially open Trinity Haven, Indiana’s first residential facility for LGBTQ youth and young adults who are at risk of homelessness, two people were living in the house. “As soon as we announced our opening date, young people began contacting Trinity Haven,” says Leigh Ann Hirschman, a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis and founding president of Trinity Haven’s board of directors. “Because they knew the...

DANVILLE, Va. — Danville Community College Upsilon Phi Chapter attended the virtual Virginia-West Virginia Regional Convention on March 5-7. The students won the following awards: Phi Theta Kappa Regional Awards for Year 2020 Officer Team – 1st Place DCC (Upsilon Phi) President: Kenyon Gregory, Vice-President: Zechariah Bennett, Secretary (2020): Chloé Rivera; Distinguished Chapter Officer 3rd Place – Kenyon Gregory; Paragon Award for Chapter Advisors, Mary Motley; Continued Excellence Award for Chapter Advisors, Vickie Holland Taylor; Distinguished Advisor Team – 1s...

For most Americans the terms “environmentalist” and “liberal” are more or less synonymous. For many historians the set of ideas called environmentalism and the set of ideas called liberalism are similarly—and for similar reasons—connected. But it is not at all clear why these associations make sense. The environmental historian Roderick Nash provides one explanation for the pairing of environmentalism and liberalism in The Rights of Nature, where he argues that “one can regard environmental ethics as marking out the farthest limits of American liberalism.” 1 For Nash, t...

CW: Violence, sexual assault When Lema Shamamba fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she took just one of her three children. While the other two were at school, her youngest, Pasifique, happened to be home sick that day. After protesting the gruesome killings in her village by militia, Lema knew she was in danger. Within hours, she and five-year-old Pasifique had crossed the border into Uganda. “I didn’t have an option,” she says. If she didn’t leave, she would be killed. Lema is calm when she recounts all it took for her and her family to be living in West Auckland in 2021. Bo...

April 17, 2021 Financial services firm Edward Jones ranks highest in investor satisfaction with full-service brokerage firms, according to the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Full-Service Investor Satisfaction Study, the firm announced. The study measures overall investor satisfaction with 24 full-service investment firms based on seven factors including product offerings; problem resolution; convenience; digital experience; financial advisors; value; and trust. The firm scored 770 in overall satisfaction, 38 points above the industry average, according to a release from Edward Jones. A deeper dive indi...