Rev. Kim addresses how we functionally separate faith and food, and shows how the gospel transforms our appreciation for and engagement with food.
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“Spiritual
Malady” in
Finance? It’s
In the Heart
By: Daniel Kwon In his recent Op-Ed in the NY Times titled For the Love of Money, Sam Polk does an insightful job of addressing and analyzing the root of the cancer that plagues the financial services industry: the idolization of power. Polk starts by discussing how he was lured to Wall Street by the prospect of immediate wealth and power. In his first year as...
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The War on
Poverty: 50
Years Later
By: Esther Larson Don’t worry – I’m not going down the partisan route of talking about poverty through a political angle. I’ll let Senator Cory Booker and Representative Paul Ryan’s words speak for themselves. Rather, I”ll be considering the 50th Anniversary of the “War on Poverty” and how the...
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Xu Bing
Sculptures at
St. John the Divine
At St. John the Divine, in Morningside Heights, artist Xu Bing has installed two phoenix sculptures made from what the New York Times describes as, ”unexpected materials: feathers fashioned from impeccably layered shovels; crowns made of weathered hard hats; heads created from jackhammers; and birds’ bodies sculpted from other salvaged construction debris.” H...
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Arranging
flowers to
nourish the soul
By: Bethany Jenkins Esther Larson is a part-time, self-employed florist (www.essiesflowers.com) and senior manager of affiliate development for Hope for New York. She is also a former Gotham Fellow through the Center for Faith & Work. How did you become interested in arranging flowers? I’ve been working with nonprofit, anti-poverty organizations ...
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Why Did I Start
Crying During
That Beer
Commercial
About a Puppy
and a Horse?
By: Stephanie Walton There is quite a bit that can be said about the negatives of the advertising industry. And people are definitely saying it. I must confess that I am continuously surprised at these negative reactions, the anger at feeling manipulated, all the while devoting a significant amount of public discourse to Super Bowl commercials and Mad Men. I started to writ...
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