By Ted Jeon I first came to New York City nearly 10 years ago, excited to begin my new career as a financial analyst on Wall Street. Having just graduated from college, I came to New York with grand visions for my work – to participate in industry-shaping transactions, to work with leading global companies, and to make my mark on the world. However, my initial enthus...
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2016
Faith & Work
Conference:
Call for
Papers
Theme to Explore: This November 10-12, the annual conference hosted by the Center for Faith & Work will examine the theological implications of our vocational relationships with evolving technology. The word technology itself bears so many associations that its essence has been rendered at once elusive yet pervasive, covering a range of definitions while still occupying shado...
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CFW
Artists-in-
Residence
explore
“Givenness”
Artists-in-
Residence
explore
“Givenness”
The Center for Faith & Work is pleased to announce our 2016 Spring Artists-in-Residence. Inspired by Marilynne Robinson’s recent collection of essays The Givenness of Things,applicants were asked to craft proposals for new work prompted by the theme ofGivenness. To quote Robinson: An etiology that implies a lower order of complexity than our given experien...
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Startup
Pitch
Night
Winners
On Thursday, April 28th, CFW hosted its second annual Start-Up Pitch Night, an evening designed to celebrate entrepreneurship and promote innovative gospel-centered businesses and initiatives. CFW seeks to encourage and support entrepreneurs with bold visions to start new for-profit and non-profit ventures that seek to bring gospel-centered renewal to New York City and beyond. Judg...
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The Gospel
of Etsy
By Penelope Morgan When I started staying home with my daughter Cecily, I fulfilled a dream and started my own handmade business. In February, I opened a shop on Etsy, selling children’s accessories, toys and décor. Etsy.com is an online marketplace for handmade or vintage items. Amazingly, Etsy.com offers 35 million items for sale from 1.6 million sellers worldwide...
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The Cave
and the
Cathedral:
Meaning-Making
in the Dark
Why do human beings make art? Is art an essential part of what makes us human? Drawing on the film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which reveals the recently discovered Paleolithic cave paintings from Chauvet, France, author Gregory Wolfe delves into the way art both makes and discovers meaning. Along the way, Wolfe explores how art and the religious sense have been...
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