On May 30-31st, the Center for Faith & Work hosted the ninth annual Entrepreneurship & Innovation Forum. Started in 2006, the Forum has served as a launching pad for a growing vision of entrepreneurship that “seeks the peace and prosperity of the city.” This year’s forum, held at the Center for Social Innovation, focused on the theme of Disruption as a pow...
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2013-2014 City
Rhythms Recap
This year, the Center for Faith & Work launched City Rhythms, a series focused on exploring a wide spectrum of the key industries and sectors contributing to the overall flourishing of New York City. The specific goals of the series are: 1. to explore how each particular vocation is important to & contributes to the overall flourishing of our city, 2. to invite...
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June Arts
Offerings
Each month, the Center for Faith & Work will highlight a few unique arts offerings in the city worth checking out. (Painting by Madeline Paternot) Theatre: The Wooster Group’s Early Shaker Spirituals Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks Festival Shakespeare in the Park Film: Free Summer Movies Rooftop Films Music: Mason Jar Music Decorati...
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Future: “Let Thy
Servant Depart
in Peace”
By: Ben Stamper In the outer edges of Queens there is a little piece of post-apocalypse that’s just a 7-train ride away. Hugging the new Citi Field stadium, the infamous “Iron Triangle” is home to hundreds of migrant auto repair shops, scrap yards and waste management outfits. It is a picture of industrial anarchy that rivals the favelas of Brazil or the ship brea...
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CFW Stories:
Katie Sullivan
Legal Vocational
Intensive
"It reached out and grabbed me and convinced me I had to change my life," says Katie Sullivan, a lawyer who participated in CFW's Legal Vocational Intensive this Spring. Vocational Intensives are a gospel-centered 3-month course that provide industry-specific dialogue, community, collaboration, and innovation toward gospel-centered cultural engagement. Hear more about Ka...
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The Ghosts
of Penn Past
By: Ben Stamper The original Pennsylvania Station (1910-1963) was widely regarded as a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and an architectural wonder of NYC. On the eve of the building’s 50th birthday, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company called for its demolition, citing prohibitive maintenance costs and a decline in rail passenger service. In its place now stands the sports c...
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