By Yvette Shin

The worldwide push to go “green” has finally reached NYU. For years, the NYU community has fostered a passion for environmental responsibility. However with the formation of the university’s Sustainability Task Force in the fall of 2006, what was once a matter of conscience has now become a full-fledged, financially-supported, campus-wide initiative.

Going green is increasingly becoming a priority to the academic world. However not all factions recognize the urgency for sustainability efforts with such lucidity. The most disconcerting resistance comes from faith-based organizations. In particular, Christian leaders remain apathetic or even hostile toward this growing movement. The cause for this reaction is unclear. Some theorize that Biblical eschatology teaches a renewal of all things, making environmental preservation redundant. Others cite that the church’s chief mission is spiritual salvation and not global conservation. Still others claim that the long-standing leftist claim on this issue makes right-wing Evangelicals uneasy. [continued]

By James Pyun

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” –Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus made it clear; the greatest commandments are to, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind,” and, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” And yet there are countless examples of Christians who dehumanize homosexuals, slander their fellow brothers and sisters, and ignore the poor — all in the name of Jesus. God is the God of justice, but he is also the God of love.

No clearer is this point made than in the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). Imagine someone horribly beaten in a dangerous neighborhood in the heart of the night, literally left for dead. It was not the proverbial pastor, nor the pious Christian who offered his help; they ignored the situation altogether as they passed by. It was a social outcast, the type no one expects to associate with Christians no less, who not only tended to the victim’s wounds, but made sure everything was taken care of, right down to the outstanding hospital and medical costs… [continued]

For thousands of years, people of have gazed into the night sky and drawn pictures, a sort of celestial connect-the-dots. These drawings, or constellations, constitute the twelve signs of the zodiac. Ancient cultures assigned names, characters and colorful stories to these constellations. But one interpretation of the zodiac holds that each sign actually may tell a piece of the story of Christ. Could the twelve signs of the zodiac be a stellar fifth gospel?
Take, for instance, the constellation Virgo. In Latin, Greek, and Arabic, Virgo means “virgin.”  It contains 110 …