Does VIRTUS Training Work? INTERVIEW w/ Melanie Takinen | The Simpleton Podcast, Clark Massey

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Clark sits down with Melanie Takinen, Associate Director of VIRTUS Programs, to learn more about the beginnings of the program, what it does for the Church, and what else the Church should be doing, in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast.

Learn more about VIRTUS at https://virtusonline.org/virtus/

Chapters:
0:00 Intro & context
12:58 Welcome, Melanie!
15:53 The beginnings of VIRTUS
21:20 VIRTUS’s implementation
29:41 Does VIRTUS work?
38:15 What else should the Church be doing?
45:13 What do people misunderstand about VIRTUS?
52:56 Final thoughts

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