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Going With The Flow?To go or not to go with the flow...that is the question Author: The River Academy
A couple of guys try to figure out how to be faithful Christian educators when the pressure to go with the flow of modern culture can be intense. Is it best to go with the flow or to swim upstream? As a Christian, how do we navigate our current culture to figure out when we can go with the flow? Those are the questions that we wrestle with each week. Join us to hear their lively discussions and dive into some interesting aspects of Christian and classical education in the process! Language: en-us Genres: Education, Kids & Family, Parenting Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 210: Senior Thesis 2024 - Qynn
Monday, 29 July, 2024
"Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees" by Qynn Abstract: Farmers are the backbone of our economy, but they are breaking under the strain. They spend hours on end dealing with tremendous amounts of paperwork, stressing over impossible problems, and praying that God will give them good weather for the harvest. They are the hidden heroes of God’s green earth—working day after day but getting little to no pay. Small local farmers are not receiving enough income to continue farming or caring for their families. A farmer’s fruit goes through a process—put in warehouses, sold by a seller, and placed in grocery stores to be sold to consumers. Once the consumer buys the fruit, the money begins to flow backward. Say the seller prices a bin of fruit for five dollars and the grocery store buys that bin, the seller will take two dollars of those five, one for income and one to cover the costs, the warehouse will do the same, but by the time the money reaches the farmer only one dollar is left. The farmer—the one who supplies all those other people with their products is earning no income. The industrialization of agriculture has created an economic divide between grocery stores, agriculture companies, and farmers, forcing the farmer to be paid last instead of first. This current structure puts farmers out of business and disheartens orchardists from continuing their farms. When this happens, who will grow the food if the farmer disappears? This podcast features music by Wyatt Darnell, alumni of The River Academy. If you want more information about his music, or about anything else we've discussed here, email us at podcast@theriveracademy.org Subscribe: Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/32dtoiiMWX9VWHgmmAoVSs?si=YONJvgwjSwKGLONTuqE65Q) | Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=459024) Follow: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/theriveracademy/) Learn More: https://www.theriveracademy.org/
