As the Center for Faith & Work spends this month focusing on NYC’s food industry, we encourage reflection on these excerpts from the Preface to The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection by Robert Farrar Capon: “There is a habit that plagues many so-called spiritual minds: they imagine that matter and spirit are somehow at odds with each other and ...
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Genetically
Modified Food:
Good Steward-
ship Or Reckless Manipulation?
By: Elizabeth Crouch As Christians, we’re called to be good stewards of this earth and its resources. With this in mind, are genetically modified foods (GMOs, for genetically modified organisms) an insightful use of human ingenuity, or reckless manipulation of natural nutrition? The answer is likely nuanced. Corporate greed has utilized GMOs to double profits and monopolize c...
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Humanizing Work: A CFW Conference Experience
By: Ben Davis Who doesn’t wish their job was more ‘humanized’? From Ecclesiastes to Lean In, people want not only to understand how to make sense of their work, but also how to make their work more sensible. Humanizing work is a phrase tied neither to a purely secular nor a solely biblical worldview. At the Center for Faith & Work’s annual conference thi...
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Why Christians
Should Care
About Science
By: Elizabeth Crouch Recently, there were some troubling facts that came out of studies looking at American students’ competencies in several subject areas, including science and math. Why should Christians care about how American culture interacts with science? Because it’s a direct application of what Jesus said were the greatest commandments: 1. Lo...
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Business Plan
Competition
Semi-Finalists
Announced!
Competition
Semi-Finalists
Announced!
Congratulations to all of the ventures proceeding to the semi-final round of the Business Plan Competition! They are: Better World Collective (Whit Hunter + Colin Hunter) Brokenness (Sarah Olbrantz + Alexandra Walz) ChinaVision CityPeace (Stella Sunwoo + Helen Tay) Ex Vivo Dynamics (Alan Perlstein + Ivy Saludes) The Freedom Ladder (Thomas Estler) In Real Life ...
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Artist-In-
Residence Recap: and we all came
in together
In October, CFW announced the inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Rebecca Locke, and commissioned Rebecca to create a new piece of work exploring the theme of celebration. The resulting body of workand we all came in together, an immersive installation, utilized new digital media, analogue technologies, video, objects, found images and discovered stories to reflect New Yorkers’ ongoi...
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