Lisa Sweeney Taylor is an executive assistant for a large asset management corporation in New York City. Until participating in the Center for Faith & Work's Gotham Fellowship, Taylor's perception of faith and work was incomplete and unadapted: "I just thought of the salvific aspects of the gospel, and didn't grasp how deep and broad the gospel implications were.&...
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Soylent Vs. Food
By: Elizabeth Crouch Soylent is a novel food product that aims to replace traditional eating by providing 100% of necessary nutrients in an efficient and inexpensive manner1. Soylent recommends consuming the product as a shake, and one meal costs approximately $3. Online, various lifestyle aspects of Soylent are debated vigorously2. For a different approach, let’s evaluate th...
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Women, Power
& Fashion: Now
Choose Two
By: Deborah Ma “We are all, to varying degrees, public people now.” For better or worse, you’ll have to admit with Vanessa Friedman whose article, Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Power of Style, published in the New York Times, explains how in a world increasingly run with social sharing sites like Instagram and Pinterest, “judgments [are] made, long before p...
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Humanizing
Work
By: Timothy Keller What resources does Christianity give us to humanize work? Tim Keller explains how work is not part of humanity’s curse but rather how God calls us to cultivate this earth to bring about human flourishing for the common good. Looking at the condition of the heart will lead to loving those we work with well instead of exploiting them.
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July Arts
Offerings
Each month, the Center for Faith & Work will highlight a few unique arts offerings in the city worth checking out. Theatre: Downtown/Experimental: The New Ohio Theatre’s Ice Factory Festival of New Works Traditional: Les Miserables on Broadway Classical: Shakespeare in the Park’s King Lear Film: Free Summer Movies Rooftop Films Sp...
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Present:
“The Ripple”
By Ben Stamper My original concept for this film was completely hijacked by a chance-encounter with a homeless man on the corner of 17th street and 5th Avenue. Steve is in his mid 50’s and has been making pizza since he was 15 years old. He has been homeless for 6 months after the restaurant he worked for lost their lease due to rent hikes. Living paycheck to paycheck he soon...
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