Category: Retro Flashes

June 8, 2013 Arturo Vega, shepherd of the Ramones, completed mural of Jesus just before his death

by Journey | Jun 8, 2025 | Art & Faith, Art of the Street, Lower East Side East Village, Mexicans, Music, Retro Flashes | 0 |

Arturo Vega handled the artwork, lighting, and publicity for the Ramones, often called the first punk band.

MAY 17, 1971 — “PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD!” GODSPELL ANNIVERSARY. A Harbinger for 2025?

by Journey | May 17, 2025 | Art & Faith, Movies, videos, Music, Retro Flashes, Theater & Dance | 0 |

50TH Anniversary of NYC premiere of the musical.

MAY 12 — THE “MOSLEM WORLD” PUBLISHED IN 1893, NYC

by Journey | May 12, 2025 | Mosque City NY Retros, Retro Flashes | 0 |

Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb, before 1916, Publisher. Photo: public domain in the United...

April 19, 1876 The last day of evangelist Dwight L. Moody’s “The Great Campaign” in NYC

by Journey | Apr 19, 2025 | Evangelical Protestants, Retro Flashes | 0 |

This evangelism campaign of Moody swiftly had effects around the world.

April 13 – 15, 1992 “What Color is Your Idol? Conference

by Tony Carnes | Apr 13, 2025 | Evangelical Protestants, Harlem, Race & faith, Retro Flashes | 0 |

Bishop Ezra Williams of Harlem’s Bethel Gospel Assembly was one of the keynote speakers. On...

March 31, 1647 1st Africans were baptized in NYC

by Journey | Mar 31, 2025 | Africans, Retro Flashes | 0 |

1639 Manatus Map showing the location of Blacks that worked for the Dutch West India Company and...

3 years ago today died, 1st female U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright. Woman of faith.

by Journey | Mar 23, 2025 | Biographies, Politics, law & faith, Retro Flashes, Women & faith | 0 |

https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.65802 Madeline Albright was the first woman to be the United...

1884 “Lent, as it is kept at Yonkers”

by Journey | Mar 16, 2025 | Lent, Retro Flashes | 0 |

A quick bit from the past.

February 15, 1981 Business prayer groups spread in NYC

by Tony Carnes | Feb 15, 2025 | Evangelical Protestants, Retro Flashes, Upper East Side, Wall Street, Work, Money, Charity | 0 |

Photo illustration by Tony Carnes/A Journey through NYC religions. Scene is blurred for...

February 7 DL Moody’s famous NYC revival starts

by Journey | Feb 7, 2025 | Evangelical Protestants, Retro Flashes | 0 |

On February 7, 1876, at 8 PM evangelist DL Moody opened his “The Great Campaign” at...

JAN 30TH Gandhi dead. Reason & nationalism assassinate morality in India, 1948.

by Tony Carnes | Jan 30, 2025 | Gandhi, Indians, Retro Flashes | 0 |

The assassin blamed Gandhi for an irrational, immoral pacifism.

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

by Tony Carnes | Dec 20, 2024 | 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.

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