By: Aya Hayashi When I decided to switch from a pre-veterinary medicine track to musicology during the spring semester of my junior year of college, I might as well have dropped a bomb on my parents. My father was (and probably still is) convinced that I’m going to die poor. Frankly, I, too, fear for my current and future welfare, especially when articles like t...
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The Gotham
Fellowship
Experience
By: Leah Hollingsworth Last month, I managed to navigate through Penn Station on a Friday afternoon—suitcase, 10-month-old baby, diaper bag, car seat, stroller, and husband (last but not least) in tow. Perhaps an inauspicious start to a life-changing weekend. Each new class of Redeemer’s Gotham Fellowship begins the year with a fall retreat on the Princeton cam...
Read More »CFW Launches
City Rhythms
On September 19, the Center for Faith & Work launched City Rhythms, a new monthly, cross-vocational gathering spotlighting specific vocational sectors each month. These evenings bring together a diverse group of professionals and focus on developing a collective understanding of particular industries in order to incite a larger vision of God’s love for the city. Our cal...
Read More »A Quick Summary of the Health-
care Insurance
Exchange
Situation
By: Colin Toney Four weeks ago, on October 1, the federal government and 14 state governments launched 15 websites known as healthcare insurance exchanges to allow consumers to shop for and purchase health insurance. Though the story has been largely overshadowed by political battles surrounding the debt ceiling and federal government shutdown, the exchanges are a core featur...
Read More »Neil Gaiman
Wants You to Go
to the Library –
And So Do I
By Sarah Davis About a fortnight ago, author Neil Gaiman gave a lecture about the importance of reading and libraries in both the individual and common good. It’s lengthy, but well worth a read (or five!). In particular, Gaiman highlights the importance of libraries as homes of not just books, but information that can be accessed freely by anyone at anytime. While we may take...
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Rosy Celestial
Fantasies”
At the Frick
By: Esther Larson The Frick is bringin’ New Yorkers back to the ‘80s – not the scrunchies, slap bracelets, and MC Hammer pants trends of course – in classic, classy Frick style, they’re bringing back Johannes Vermeer’s piece “Girl with a Pearl Earring” for the first time to New York since 1984. In the recent NY Times piece reflecting ...
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