By: Deborah Ma With the frenzy of Fashion Week finally behind us, New York City has returned to its regular rhythms. This grand arrival and sudden exodus of models, designers, bloggers, editors and spectators, each dedicated to the hope of uncovering what is beautiful for the human form, has waved in and out of New York, London, and Milan. This week, Paris will now host the grand m...
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Echoes of Eden:
Book on
Christianity
and the Arts
By: Kyle Werner I recently read Jerram Barrs’ new book Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts, and found it to be immensely inspiring. Tim Keller hailed this book as “the most accessible, readable, and yet theologically robust work on Christianity and the arts that you will be able to find.” I would agree. &nbs...
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Incubator
& Bubble
By: Calvin Chin Crains New York Business published an article about incubators fueling our local tech economy. Given our stagnant local and national economy, one should not criticize entities that try to support new companies in the name of job and wealth creation BUT can anyone who follows entrepreneurship keep up with the proliferating number of incubators or accelerato...
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Re-Imagining CFW
With the beginning of the new year, the Center for Faith & Work began to re-imagine CFW. In July, CFW hosted its first Strategic Forum to communicate to our leaders our evolving vision. Executive Director David Kim did a presentation on “Stretching the Imagination” to envision what a Re-imagined NYC might look like, and highlighted what role the CFW community might pla...
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The End of NY
Fashion Week?
By: Benjamin Setiawan The NYTimes published a piece yesterday entitled Is New York Fashion Week at the End of the Runway? This is certainly not a new subject matter. For years people have been talking about the commercialization and exhaustive pace of New York Fashion Week (NYFW). I find myself guilty of complaining about running around the city all day for 10 days straight wi...
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Badly Broken
By: Daniel Lee and Chris McNerney In 2008, we were introduced to a high school chemistry teacher who turned drug dealer after being diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Breaking Bad’s Walter White was just an average man who wore unflattering patterned shirts and an awkward mustache. Slowly but surely, however, the mild-mannered husband and father transformed into his al...
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