{"id":71,"date":"2012-09-25T21:56:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/ixt1\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:54:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_0826\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/files\/2020\/04\/IMG_0826-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_0826\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\"><\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1641\"><strong data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1076\">The Telos<\/strong> (from the Greek word <em data-start=\"1098\" data-end=\"1105\">\u03c4\u03ad\u03bb\u03bf\u03db<\/em>, meaning \u201cpurpose\u201d) is a Christian journal at Williams College dedicated to expressing and critically engaging with diverse opinions and perspectives \u2014 all informed by the Christian faith. In an environment where many struggle to find meaning, Telos seeks to articulate the purpose and meaning that permeates the Christian life through writing and art that takes both faith and ideas seriously. Founded in spring 2009, we publish once a year and feature academic essays, personal essays, reviews, short fiction, poetry, and visual art.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"1643\" data-end=\"1842\">Telos is affiliated with the &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/augustinecollective.org\/\">The Augustine Collective<\/a>, an independent network of student-led Christian journals on college campuses. We thank the <strong data-start=\"1789\" data-end=\"1816\">Cecil B. Day Foundation<\/strong> for its generous support.<\/p>\r\n<h4>Vision<\/h4>\r\n<p>Our vision is for <em data-start=\"516\" data-end=\"536\">The Williams Telos<\/em> to be a nuanced and faithful conduit of the Christian message at Williams\u2014articulating the purpose and meaning that permeates the Christian life while critically engaging minds and souls across campus.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telos (from the Greek word \u03c4\u03ad\u03bb\u03bf\u03db, meaning \u201cpurpose\u201d) is a Christian journal at Williams College dedicated to expressing and critically engaging with diverse opinions and perspectives \u2014 all informed by the Christian faith. In an environment where many struggle to find meaning, Telos seeks to articulate the purpose and meaning that permeates the Christian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/telos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}