Amy Green

  • School of Life

    School of Life

    How a generation bent on making a difference is changing Christian higher education What did you used to dream of doing when you grew up? Jen Cook wants to change nations. Hers is an outsized ambition, but Cook is infused with the youthful exuberance of one who believes she can make it happen.  Cook is …

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  • Next Generation Changing Christian Education

    Next Generation Changing Christian Education

    School of LifeHow a generation bent on making a difference is changing Christian higher education.

     

    What did you used to dream of doing when you grew up? Jen Cook wants to change nations. Hers is an outsized ambition, but Cook is infused with the youthful exuberance of one who believes she can make it happen. 

    Cook is a 21-year-old marketing senior at Oral Roberts University (ORU), where this fall she will be president of her university’s chapter of Students in Free Enterprise, an international organization helping students apply business concepts to projects for the needy. In 2009 she traveled to Paraguay with a team of students who sought to spread ethical business practices in the country, one rife with crime.

  • The Wave of the Future

    The Wave of the Future

    The Wave of the Future

    Victoria Walker isn’t a hard-core video gamer, but she knows a thing or two about avatars and virtual worlds. For her doctoral dissertation, the mother of two created a counselor training facility where mental health students could hone their diagnostic skills on a licensed counselor and higher-level graduate student pretending to be patients with self-inflicted injuries and eating disorders.

    In the virtual world known as Second Life, where online users inhabit digital representations of themselves called avatars, Walker created a facility that users can walk into, ride an elevator up to the counseling rooms on the second floor and look inside.

  • Creation Care Event Billed as Largest for Christians

    Creation Care Event Billed as Largest for Christians

    More than 60,000 churchgoers are expected to participate in a simulcast event Wednesday being billed as the largest gathering of Christians supporting creation care.

    Hope for Creation, being held on the eve of the 40th observance of Earth Day, will be simulcast from Northland, A Church Distributed, a Florida congregation led by the Rev. Joel Hunter. Participants from as far as India, Thailand and Russia, will join in online, and many pastors will air the simulcast at their churches.

    Photo: Dr. Matthew Sleeth will lead the Hope for Creation simulcast Wednesday.

  • Taking Jesus to the Fringes: On the Orange Blossom Trail

    Taking Jesus to the Fringes: On the Orange Blossom Trail

    She says she is 26, but she looks younger. Tattoos cover her arms, a ladybug among them. A sales tag hangs from her purse. Sunglasses-big, cheap and gaudy-are perched on her head. She is small, feminine, attractive. Immediately she bursts into tears.

    The details of her appearance do little to convey who she is. But the moment she hears that God loves her, tears well up in her eyes and run down her cheeks. She wipes them from her face, her dark eyes darting around to see whether she is being watched.

    (Photo: Sandra Roman walked the Trail for seven years but now as a Christians helps with Open Door.)

  • On the Orange Blossom Trail

    Charisma went to the streets to report on Christians who are using innovative ways to make Jesus real to atheists. This story is about Peg de Alminana, who leads Open Door, a ministry for prostitutes on an Orlando, Fla., street known for its sex workers. She says she is 26, but she looks younger. Tattoos cover her …

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