By: Josh Simmons Sell out. Lecrae Moore has heard this a lot recently. The accusations are not because the Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist was an indie underground sensation who has now become popular in mainstream culture. No, the accusations have come from people in the church who are angry that he is now sharing the stage with non-Christian rap artists like Wu-Tang Clan and ...
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From Strangers
to Life Together:
Gotham
Community
By: Keith Park It’s Tuesday night and I take my usual seat next to Johnathan and he asks how my week is going and I’m glad to see him. We’re an unlikely pair, a real estate broker from the south and a finance guy from Canada, but we’ve grown close over the past few months, first as assigned prayer partners but now as friends. There are a few minute...
Read More »Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Diana Mao In CFW’s Gotham Fellowship, I learned that the first corporation was the church. This came as a surprise to many in the Gotham program. Probably because of the fact that the corporation is seen as this evil entity – polluting the waters of 3rd world countries, exploiting the most vulnerable and appeasing shareholders in a profit-maximizing firm....
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Fellowship:
Seeing the City
with New Eyes
By: Glenn Sparico Being a part of Gotham this year has begun to change the way I view the world. It’s helped me to realize how everything – my faith, career, relationships, pursuits – is interconnected. And this holistic transformation is leading me to become more involved in the world around me. Before Gotham, it felt like I was staring at a city thr...
Read More »Aligning vision
and visuals
in the creative
process
By: Bethany Jenkins Faith McCormick is a freelance art director in New York City. She attends Redeemer Presbyterian Church, where she was a Gotham Fellow through the Center for Faith & Work. What does your work entail? I work with all types of organizations—business, nonprofits, churches—to help them visually communicate their message, their mis...
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McGuffin?
Motivating
Heros in
Hitchcock’s Films
By: Katherine Evans For the next few weeks at Film Forum on Houston Street, we New Yorkers have the immense treat of being able to see the entirety of director Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography on the big screen. If your familiarity with Hitch begins and ends with Psycho, this is definitely the time to get better acquainted. You probably know he’s the ma...
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