Welcome Class of 2013 and returning students!!

We're excited for the new year!

Welcome Freshman! Check out our CALENDAR for our WELCOME WEEK activities including the Governor's Island Excursion on Saturday. To sign up, contact Aimee at aimster613@nyu.edu or (970) 261-7659.

Plus, all students are invited to our WELCOME BACK BBQ on Monday, September 7th at 5pm at 43 St. Nicholas Place NY, NY 10031. Hope to see you there!

Finally, mark your calendars for the First Nav Night of the Year on September 9th at 7pm!

Nav Nite Locations!

Nav Nite, tonight, September 10th, will be in 5 Washington Pl, room #101. This is the same room that the Purple State of Mind screening was held in last year, as well as our eating disorders seminar.

If you're still confused, here's a map: it's the building on the NE of the intersection between Mercer and Washington Pl.
Click here for map.

In the larder scheme of things, if you've been around, you know that we're having an extremely hard time finding a location for Nav Nite this semester. Last year, we were kicked out of Stern (they only are letting Stern clubs in there from now on,) and have not found another home. This has lead to us have to make several last-minute calls on Nav Nite location.

in order to keep you updated on the location, there are a few things that you can do. First is get on our listserve, which you can do through NYU home (we're called "navigators") or by e-mailing Jason Jiang (jj765@nyu.edu) or Richelle Blauvelt (richelle.blauvelt@gmail.com).

Secondly, you can check this site's "calendar" page.

But lastly, and most importantly, you can sign up to receive emergency text updates from us. Click below.

Sign up for our TXT message alerts!

Hope to see you all tonight!

Welcome Freshmen!

Hello, incoming Freshmen! The NYU Navigators would like to welcome you to the City! Congratulations on making the choice to come to NYU- we hope you like it.

Weather you've found this page because you're looking for a good Christain community, or because you're just checking out religion on campus, we would invite you to check out what we do- it's open to all, and there are many differnt ways to get involved in what we do!

We have weekly meetings with praise music, teaching, prayer and community, special events and parties for fun, and weekend retreats out of the city to help take the stress off and get some time in nature! If you're interested in discussing the Bible and what it may mean to your life, we have Bible studies as well as Spiritual Interest Groups- groups that meet to openly discuss and debate God, religion, and the Bible. We have different meetings times and places for both groups- many in NYU dorms so you don't even have to leave!

Check out the below survey to let us know what you're interested in and how we can be of service!

Simple, Practical, Everyday Social Justice

Simple ways that you can love people around you. From The Simple Way's website - www.thesimpleway.org. To quote them: add your idea to the mix and let’s brew up some holy mischief.

* Go out to eat with someone who is homeless, or invite them to your home or cafeteria to eat with you.
* Leave a random tip in the college bathrooms for the folks who clean them.
* Find out who makes the clothes for the athletic department and if those companies reflect the values of Christ.
* Learn to sew and begin making your own clothes.
* Start tithing 10% of all income directly to the poor (relationaltithe.com).
* Connect with a group of farmworkers who grow food for your cafeteria or favorite restaurant (such as Taco Bells Immokalee workers ciw-online.org).
* Give your winter coat away to someone who is colder than you are.
* Ask to see the budget of your school. What do the workers get paid compared to the administrators? Make sure folks know -- if you are proud of this, affirm the folks who make those decisions... If not, begin a conversation with both workers and administrators of how this could be better.
* Ask where the campus gets its energy. Is it renewable? If not begin a plan for moving toward renewable energy (talk to folks at Eastern University about how they have done it by an optional ecological tax that is tacked onto tuition -- it's only a few dollars per student).
* Write one CEO a month -- affirm or critique the ethics of their company (you may need to do a little research).
* Try sitting in silence for 15 minutes a day.
* Kill your TV -- or go TV free for a year.
* Go down a line of parked cars and pay for the meters that are about to expire... Leave a little anonymous note of niceness.
* Beat a war machine into a plow, without hurting anyone of course (Isaiah 2:4) -- NOTE: you might want to plan on a little sabbatical after this one, a little reading and writing retreat -- in jail.
* Write to one social justice organizer or leader each month, just to encourage them in their work.
* Experiment with a post-oil era by going fuel free for a week -- ride a bike everywhere, carpool, walk or hitchhike.
* Gut your TV and turn it into a pot for a plant.
* Try reading only female writers for a year (since many of our problems seem to be stemming from men).
* Go to a retirement home and ask to visit a few old folks who don't get any visitors.
* Spend some time with someone who cleans the campus, get to know each other, share your stories.
* Invite one of the college cafeteria staff to your home for dinner or go to their home.
* Try jack-hammering the church parking lot to make space for potato plants.
* Track to its source one item you eat regularly
* Give your car away to a stranger
* Buy only used (thrift- not "vintage") clothes for a year.
* Cover up brand names

Craig Detweiler @ Nav Nite - 2/28/08

We were fortunate enough to have Craig Detweiler (now an official Ph. D) come and speak to us about "Joining the Cultural Conversation" at Nav Nite. Mike Donovan had the foresight to record the event and the marvelous Q&A, linked below for your listening pleasure.

"Joining the Cultural Conversation" - Q&A
Click on it (or right-click or control-click) and hit "save as file" or something of the sort.

Craig just wrote a new book, Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century, one of RELEVANT Magazine's 3 most anticipated books of 2008. Also check out A Matrix of Meanings.

The Room of Grace

We watched a DVD of John Lynch giving this talk at Nav Nite a few weeks ago. I figured I would throw it up here in care anyone wants to listen to it that wasn't at Navs, or (like me) just need to hear it often.

This is taken from a talk given at the 2003 National Navigators Staff confrence. Click (or right click) on the link below and hit "save to disk" or the equivalent.

The Room of Grace

Purple State of Mind Screening and Discussion

Hey all!

We're super excited about a new event that we're putting on, co-hosted with the Atheists, Agnostics, and Freethinkers Club at NYU. A screening of Purple State of Mind, a new documentary film, as well as a question and answer session with the co-directors, John Marks and Craig Detweiler.

The event will be at 7PM on Thursday, February 28th, in Room 101 in 5 Washington Place- aka the Psychology building, across the street from Myer Hall. There is also a Facebook event here.

Check out the trailer:


Craig will also be speaking at Nav Nite on Feb. 27th, the Wed. prior to the screening, an event that you don't want to miss. He'll be speaking on the theme of his new book, Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century, one of RELEVANT Magazine's 3 most anticipated books of 2008.