Gap Years, ROI, and Alternatives to College

New polls on Christianity show mixed results. Elon Musk suggests AI will end work, and test results are indicating a crisis in education in America.

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Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life by David Bahnsen

Segment 1 – State of the Church

• Anthony Bradley X post

• Gallup: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World

• Rod Dreher Substack: Men & The Rise Of Orthodoxy In America

Segment 2 – The End of Work?

• Elon Musk X post

• The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat

• Presence in the Modern World by Jacques Ellul

• Breakpoint: Evaluating the "Kirk Effect"

Segment 3 – Crisis in Education

• The Atlantic: 'A Recipe for Idiocracy'

• Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good by Steven Garber

• The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis

• The International Alliance for Christian Education (IACE)

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