Thanks to Vintage Lunch Sponsors, Fellow Alumni!

This fall, we’re asking our community to consider sponsoring a Vintage Lunch. Each lunch is catered by a local Charlottesville eatery and helps feed students who come hungry for food and community and spiritual nourishment.

Thank you to THREE Fellow Alumni for splitting the cost of a Vintage Lunch: Celeste Meadows, Matt Salit & Mackenzie Shannon. Celeste answered our questions for the group!

1. Why did you choose to sponsor a Vintage lunch? How are you connected with Theological Horizons?

I was a Horizons Fellow in 2018-2019 and was impacted by the thoughtful discussions and experiences I had with my co-fellows. I was exposed to ideas and people and questions that I hadn't experienced anywhere else in my time at UVA. I am grateful for the exposure to these things in college, as they fostered the desire to learn and process challenging and unique topics. 

2. What blessing, quote, or advice would you like to share with a UVa student?

‘The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.’ – George Eliot, Middlemarch.  I haven't read this book, but recently watched the movie A Hidden Life, named after this quote. I've been pondering it ever since.”