By: Calvin Chin The Redeemer Entrepreneurship Initiative (“Ei”) will host its annual Business Plan Competition Kickoff on Thursday evening, September 26. It is our eighth competition and couldn’t be timelier as New York City continues to be a beacon for start-up activity. Our 20 winners and other entrants from prior competitions are currently toiling throughout th...
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Reflections of
Theology of
Work Class,
Summer 2012
By: Christopher K. Several years ago I decided to embark on a career path in finance. Despite popular disdain for the industry at the time—and perhaps still to this day—I had heard the money was good and that the hours would be “ridiculous.” I needed the money and I thought a busy lifestyle would give me a sense of importance. The decision was very easy. ...
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Medium and
Message
By: Maria Fee Both religion and the arts provide access to desires and needs that are a part of being human. Will Willimon states how “God continually, graciously, gives himself to us and makes himself available to us through touched, tasted, experienced, visible means.” (Willimon, Worship as Pastoral Care, p. 151) By God’s grace knowledge arrives in many forms. T...
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Artistic
Attentiveness
By: Kenyon Adams So much of our work as artists is bound up in conscious attentiveness. We must pay attention. We pay attention to choices and how they interact in our media, to colors, to light, to tone. Attentiveness leads us to a weary contentment when at last, in the moment of inspiration, our work transcends form and material. The burden of attentiveness becomes the artist&rsq...
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Overworked and Looking for Love
Hear two recognized experts—one a clinical psychologist and the other a leading theologian—discuss the realities of trying to find love in the midst of over-worked and over-booked schedules. Through the research and data he’s accumulated over the many years, E-Harmony founder Neil Clark Warren has identified 29 dimensions of compatibility that are important factors i...
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Presence
In Writing
By: Anita Kobayashi As a writer, grappling with the writing process every day, I often come across comments like this, “…the work itself – the practice of the craft of writing – must be its own reward”(Dennis Palumbo, Writing from the Inside Out, 53). Over the years such statements have paled, and in fact, become a source of discouragement for me. Bec...
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