This week, all first-year students will be poking around these Big Questions: Who or what is God? What roles can religious or secular faith play is shaping one’s sense of purpose in the world? What ethical obligations do we owe ourselves and others? Aiding those conversations and reflections will be Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Famous,” portions of Terrence Tilley’s Faith: What It Is and What It Isn’t and Jeannine M. Pitas’s “Vocation: An Ongoing Journey,” as well as videos “Mending Trauma: Theology of Making,” “The Danger of A Single Story,” and “Why The World Is Going Crazy and How To Win Back Our Minds.” These weekly glimpses of our initial foray into the brand-new Anchor Seminar come with a heartfelt invitation to make connections to what and how and who you are teaching in the Core, majors, minors and professional schools.