Category: Brooklyn

June 25, 1991 1st Muslim Prayer in the US Congress

by Journey | Jun 25, 2024 | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Democratic good, Muslims, Politics, law & faith, Retro Flashes | 0 |

“Retro Flashes” are Journey’s quick takes on moments of history that have made New York City what...

Richard Wagner, mythologist of the horned Vikings

by Tony Carnes | Jun 23, 2024 | Bay Ridge, Norwegians, Religions, Sunset Park | 0 |

Adapted from “The new mythology. Wagner’s apotheosis in Bayreuth,” Der Ulk,...

June 16, 1884 The theology of the Coney Island roller coaster

by Tony Carnes | Jun 16, 2024 | Coney Island, Education & Science, Retro Flashes | 0 |

Original print, 1884. Among the many innovations to change the city for the better, none was more...

Revelations of secular make-believe from a child’s playground in Brooklyn

by Tony Carnes | May 22, 2024 | Bay Ridge, Norwegians, Sunset Park | 0 |

Richard Wagner Munich. Faithful reproduction of a painting by Franz Hanfstaengl, 1871/Public...

What can a child’s playground teach us about Viking religion in New York City?

by Tony Carnes | May 18, 2024 | Gardens, Norwegians, Sunset Park, Urban design | 0 |

The religious history of Norwegians in New York City has hardly been written upon. There is so...

The Norwegian Emmaus Road to New York City

by Tony Carnes | May 13, 2024 | Bay Ridge, Biographies, Dyker Heights, Easter, Easter Retro, Evangelical Protestants, Norwegians, Red Hook, Retros - Peoples, Retros-Personalities, Statistics Peoples, Sunset Park, Theology & religious studies | 0 |

Coming to New York City in America was no easy passage in the 19th Century. But sometimes God stamps your passport.

JUNETEENTH IN BROOKLYN!

by Journey | Jun 19, 2023 | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Juneteenth | 0 |

Block party celebrating Juneteenth in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Photo: A Journey through NYC...

VINDICATED at 5:06 pm, April 20, 2021! NYC Christians rallied around George Floyd

by Tony Carnes | Apr 20, 2023 | Crime, Democratic good, Evangelical Protestants, Op-ed, Park Slope, Politics, law & faith, Race & faith | 0 |

The June 2, 2020 protest gathering of almost 100 mostly evangelical churches in Brooklyn may be one of the pivotal events in New York City religious life.

Xmas Horror! DEC 20, 1903 Bridge to Land of Devils Opens in NYC

by Journey | Dec 20, 2022 | Christmas Retros, Evangelical Protestants, Retro Flashes, Williamsburg retrospective, Williamsburg-Greenpoint | 0 |

Evangelicals in Williamsburg and Greenpoint 1900-1916. Part of series on A Journey through Williamsburg-Greenpoint religions.

The evangelicals in 19th Century Williamsburg and Greenpoint. A Journey Retro

by Tony Carnes | Nov 26, 2022 | African American, Evangelical Protestants, Evangelicals in Williamsburg & Greenpoint, Williamsburg retrospective, Williamsburg-Greenpoint | 0 |

The faith-flavored identity of New York City was decided on the frontiers of social controversy in religious places like the evangelical Protestant churches of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

“Jesus is God_+” BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN

by Tony Carnes | Oct 2, 2022 | Art of the Street, Bushwick | 0 |

By “Jesus Saves,” bottom left? @Bushwick, Brooklyn, near Wykoff Avenue. Photo: Tony...

Graffiti Artist “Jesus Saves” active again!

by Tony Carnes | Oct 1, 2022 | Art of the Street, Bushwick, Evangelical Protestants | 0 |

Off Wykoff Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn. Photo: Tony Carnes/A Journey through NYC religions

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