He was one of our city’s most storied businessmen. At the time of his death in 1971, the JC Penney stores were pulling in over $18 billion of business. But in 1910, he almost committed suicide.
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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.
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The Bowery Mission and its “Cathedral for the Homeless” traces its roots back 150 years.
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108 years ago, The Bowery Mission opened its “Cathedral for the Homeless”
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The beginnings of church life in Harlem
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The anti-slavery theologians often referred to slavery as “theft of humans” and a violation of the eighth of the Ten Commandments. But the slavocrats gained more elite supporters than did the theologians of freedom.
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After the Civil War, Nast foresaw America in his “Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving” (1869) as the place where everybody had a place at the table.
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After the War of Revolution in 1776, a battle-tested cohort of African American and White faith-based leaders developed an ardor for extending freedom.
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NYC’s greatest Christmas gift to the nation: religious liberty. Retro 4
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Citing Jesus as the founder of religious freedom in America. Retro 3
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The State of religion in Flushing in 1656-1657. Retro 2
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This Christmas story starts in 1645 and culminates during the Christmas of 1657.
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