Posted on February 25, 2019
Sometimes it’s that chance encounter—with the Uber driver, airplane passenger or person who appears out of nowhere with a set of jumper cables when a car battery dies—that, like a railway switch, sends us off in a newfangled direction.
Posted on February 25, 2019
Jake ’04 and Lauren x’08 Kreyling had originally made plans for a family of four and became a family of eight. "First you exercise your faith and then see why," says Jake.
Posted on January 22, 2019
Perhaps the greatest challenge that Carrie Arcos ’95 encountered while writing her newest novel, We Are All That’s Left, was authenticity.
Posted on November 20, 2018
Three Gordon roommates—Jesse Adams ’11, James Williams ’10 and Joshua Di Frances x’08—follow their careers and each other from Wenham to Boston to Washington, D.C.
Posted on November 6, 2018
Toussaint Williams ’18 is on a mission to build bridges between Jamaica and China. With a knack for Mandarin Chinese and a heart for his native Jamaica, he is on scholarship at the Beijing Language and Culture University.
Posted on October 17, 2018
With guidance and encouragement from Sybil Coleman (social work), Kelly (Connolly) Palmer ’13, LMSW, is working toward God’s vision of justice—something she likens to shalom.
Posted on October 12, 2018
In 2011, for the first time in Kilifi County, Kenya, parents of hearing-impaired children were saying, “I want to communicate with my child.” Julia Spruance’s 100 Signs for Parents in Kenya Sign-Language was their introduction.
Posted on October 9, 2018
Dr. Evangeline “Angie” Cornwell (biology), Courtney Olbrich ’18 and Dr. Lisa Spencer ’95 investigate the function of a certain type of white blood cell in the rise of allergies, specifically food allergies.
Posted on October 2, 2018
For 20 years, artists Bruce Herman and Bryn Gillette ’02 have been pursuing the perennial question they discussed in their very first meeting: What does it mean to be a Christian who is an artist?
Posted on September 26, 2018
Like a good play, life has its own plot twists. That has certainly been the case for Paul Turbiak ’05 who left the North Shore for Los Angeles 13 years ago to become a professional actor.
Posted on September 25, 2018
Over the course of three years, Kaye Cook (psychology) and Si-Hua Chang ’16 created ways to code qualitative research on topics ranging from how the Church has changed to whether women should be ordained to national laws that potentially undermine church practice.
Posted on August 21, 2018
When Megan Lietz ’09 started her college career, she had no idea that she would launch a program to nurture racial reconciliation amidst Boston churches.