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Taste and See
Feb. 5th, 2021 | By Shi Wen Yao MC ‘23
Food has a cult following. Consider the Yale College Facebook page named “Free Food at Yale.” Before COVID-19, everyday there were announcements upon announcements asking people to come to claim free food all around campus—leftover pizzas, chicken nuggets and all things of the sort…
Investigating Hunger
Feb 5th, 2021 | By Hannah Turner BK ‘23+.5
24 hours. No social media. I constantly find these challenges all over social media, ironically. To forgo prominent desires of our daily lives in pursuit of something else—to fast—seems like the new trend. Has online social interaction become a necessity to our modern lives? I’d say the answer is yes—yes, and maybe even as much as food.
Roiling Boil
Feb 5th, 2021 | By Jason Lee TD ‘22+1
In my mother’s house, buddae-jiggae is always served with a side of spinach. If any meal she made lacked vegetables, the spinach was how she compensated. Most stews come with seaweed or daikon or bean sprouts or long, spindly mushrooms simmering in red broth. In those cases, there is no need for spinach. Buddae-jiggae, however, does not contain anything green.
The Altar Is Not a Stage
Feb 5th, 2021 | By Justin Ferrugia TD ‘23+1
As is the case for many American towns, driving around my hometown on a Sunday morning, one is guaranteed to see families dressed in their “Sunday best” walking down the street, crowded church parking lots, and groups gathering and mingling around an ornately dressed figure. To this day in America churches are the focal points of Sunday. But why?
Tasting Eden
Feb 5th, 2021 | By Se Ri Lee MC ‘23+1
My phone started beeping sporadically in the middle of my YouTube workout. Five KakaoTalk messages popped up, all sent from Umma. Dinner was going to be served in five minutes. Grumbling under my breath, I hurried over to the kitchen. “I’ll eat the leftovers later – is that okay? I had lunch like two hours ago,” I told Umma apologetically.
Profile: Pastor Ben Stuart
Dec 10, 2020 | By Serena Puang DC ‘22+1
Before coronavirus moved church online, Ben Stuart stood outside the Howard Theatre every weekend he preached there. He’d greet people as they left the service, answer questions they had about the talk, and hear about their lives. Any random person could just walk up and chat with him. I know because I was one of those people.
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