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What new learning will help you meet the requirement 2026 offers?

Lon L. Swartzentruber
by Lon L. Swartzentruber
on January 28, 2026

For avid readers of A Cause Greater, you will recognize this question from my last blog post. There is a lot happening in our world today. This has been true for a long time, and shouldn’t really ...

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