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• We live in an age where reviews, scores and ratings are really important to measure success and engagement with a product. For entertainment such as movies, games or even music, there are sites such as rotten tomatoes, metacritic, and open critic which aggregate review scores from across other individual review-oriented outlets to help provide an "overall" perspective on the quality of a product. And we have multiple ways to provide reviews for sellers on Amazon, Ebay and Facebook Marketplace, and our drivers for services like Uber and Lyft. In fact, even customers can be reviewed by sellers to indicate if they were easy to work with. Do/should churches care about reviews? Why or why not? If they should, what sites or platforms should we pay attention to? What type of reviews should matter?
• It is so easy to learn about the personal lives of famous people such as celebrities and politicians. Some people get very invested in these people's lives. Do you think there is any value to learning or knowing about famous people's personal life? Why or why not? | 

Special Guest:
Stephanie Vasquez, Global Language Resources in Spanish, PCUSA

Guest Question:
Language interpretation and accessibility is becoming increasingly necessary in the church. But it isn't always easy or cheap. How do we encourage congregations (and the church as whole) to embrace this? Also, there is a difference between simply translating something and adapting it for an audience. What goes in that process?

Resource Roundup:
Title VI, Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons
Protections for persons with Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
St Jerome
Interpreting and the Church

Contact Stephanie: stephanie.vasquez@pcusa.org

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