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1 month ago | 
memoirland.substack.com | Maggie Andersen |Sarah Mullens |Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Ryan Berg
Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus, Granta, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. ⬇️First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. The Lit Lab, featuring interviews—The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire—and essays on craft and publishing.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
yourchurch.com | Mark Vroegop |Kayla Pugh |Ryan Berg |Chris Martin
Does your family talk about the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)? The Bible tells us to “go” and “make disciples” of “all nations.” Surely we should be doing this wherever we are planted: discipling our kids, loving our neighbors, investing in our church. These are marching orders for every Christian and every church. Yet notice something: can we “make disciples” of “all nations” if we don’t “go”?
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
yourchurch.com | Kayla Pugh |Ryan Berg |Karen Pourcho |Chris Martin
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
csis.org | Ryan Berg |Jose Hernandez |José Hernandez |José Hernández |Alexandra Winkler
Expectations are sky-high for the Trump administration’s policy toward the Maduro regime in Venezuela. Many Venezuelans, including leading voices in the opposition, grew tired of the Biden administration’s unwillingness to bring serious financial consequences to the Maduro regime following its brazen election theft in July 2024.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
csis.org | Andrew Sanders |Ryan Berg
IntroductionSince his election in November 2024, President Donald Trump has staked out strong positions on the importance of the Western Hemisphere to the United States’ national security interests. A secure, prosperous, and free Western Hemisphere underpins U.S. geopolitical and economic success. Panama is the most strategically significant geography in the Western Hemisphere.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
csis.org | Ryan Berg |Rubi Bledsoe |Michael Ferguson
The IssueBeyond providing supplemental income for Mexican households, remittances—funds sent by migrants to friends and families in their home country—provide a stable flow of developmental finance to the poorest subregions of the country, which have not historically benefited from international capital flows, such as development aid or foreign direct investment.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
yourchurch.com | Ryan Berg |Karen Pourcho |Shannon Lewis |Chris Martin
Learn to recognize the signs of burnout in the first article of this series. When you’ve made the decision to address the causes of burnout and begin the process of change, it can feel exhilarating. But what about when the exhaustion hits and the tears won’t stop? What keeps you going? Just because change is slow does not mean it’s not happening. Change is a process. It takes time. But little by little—each week, each month, each year—if you commit to change, you will see growth.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Ryan Berg
Argument An expert's point of view on a current event.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
yourchurch.com | Ryan Berg |Mark Vroegop |Karen Pourcho |Chris Martin
A recent study found that almost a quarter of millennials and Gen Z report that they don’t want children. When asked why, reasons included financial freedom, hobbies, lifestyle choices, climate change, or that they just didn’t want to. I am a first-time mom and fall in the middle of Gen Z. When my husband and I announced we were expecting, many of our friends were shocked. We received comments such as “You are so young.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
csis.org | Ryan Berg
The alarm bells are ringing in Latin America. Chinese president Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Latin America caps off a decade of remarkable advances for China in the United States’ shared neighborhood. Both Xi and President Biden attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, Peru. Both then traveled to Brazil for the G20 Summit meeting. The public imagery of the two meetings said a lot about China’s advance in Latin America with little to no U.S. pushback.
