Reengineering America’s Long-lost Tree

Legend has it that a squirrel could travel from Georgia to Maine on nothing but the branches of American chestnut trees without ever touching the ground.

Alumnus Tackles Crisis in the Immigrant Church

The youth pastor of Arabic Evangelical Baptist Church in West Roxbury, MA, Karim (Kika) Ghobrial ’16 feels compelled by his Egyptian roots to address an important phenomenon that he has witnessed in the immigrant church.

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.

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.”

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.