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Posted on March 1, 2019

Messiness and Moxie

While many don’t want to relive the awkward, messy years of middle school, Middle School Assistant Principal Karl Simon ’01 sees the sweetness in them.

Posted on February 28, 2019

Engineering Change While Staying Put

For engineering manager and church elder Tim Ells ’78, psychology training and faith foundation offer a rare lens to see the humanity in a world of rapidly advancing technology. “Computers are the tools, but I need to be able to understand my customers . . . my team.”

Posted on February 28, 2019

Loving and Serving from the Meta to the Mundane

An operative legal system has the power to effect change for good. And that's why “I just became convinced that the legal system is something I wanted to be a part of in some way,” says contract immigration attorney Alice (Anderson) Bohn ’12, J.D.

Posted on February 27, 2019

When People are the Bottom Line

Beyond the typical aspects of financial planning, like retirement and life insurance, Caleb Harty ’10, CFP, is one of few financial planners in the Boston area specializing in special needs planning

Posted on February 27, 2019

Spiritual Transformation Through Physical Disability

Hilary (Sherratt) Yancey’s longstanding interest in the philosophy of disability took on a new light when she gave birth to Jackson, a spunky boy with a number of disabilities. Suddenly, her life looked different from the journey she had once envisioned.

Posted on February 26, 2019

Making a Difference on—and in—the Court

Wally King ’71B was a basketball star at Barrington College, but he didn’t anticipate that a strange overlap of “courts”—that of basketball and that of law—would play major, intertwining roles in his long, varied and often dangerous career.

Posted on February 26, 2019

When Patience Guides a Working Mother’s Ambition

Wife, mother, vice president: the three leading roles that Florecita (Carías) Mejía ’08 plays daily. The ambitious businesswoman has her hands full between her growing family and a leadership role at Bank of New York Mellon.

Posted on February 25, 2019

Making Space for Serendipity

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

Becoming Mom and Dad

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 February 22, 2019

Lauren Snyder ’19 Designs Major Set for Winter Musical

After reading a poem about a saw in her Nobel Literature class, Lauren Snyder ’19 was the only one who raised her hand when the professor asked if anyone had ever used one.

Posted on February 20, 2019

15 Years of Connecting Academia, Church and City

Fifteen years ago, the Jerusalem and Athens Forum (JAF) and the Clarendon Scholars honors programs were founded to explore, respectively, “What has the academy to do with the Church?” and what either has to do with the city.

Posted on February 18, 2019

Chip Ingram Encourages ‘True Spirituality’ in DEEP FAITH Messages

Chip Ingram, CEO and teaching pastor of Living on the Edge, challenged the Gordon community for this year’s DEEP FAITH week with a four-sermon series on The Real God, the Real You, and True Spirituality.