Category: Retros-Personalities

In Memoriam: John Allen, Catholic reporter extraordinaire

by Tony Carnes | Jan 22, 2026 | Catholics, Journalism, Personalities A - M, Religions | 0 |

Honoring a Life of Dedication and Integrity Elise Allen announced today in CRUX the passing of her...

April 25, 30, 1865 THE MOURNING for Pres. Abraham Lincoln at Broadway Tabernacle

by Journey | Apr 25, 2025 | Abraham Lincoln & NYC faiths, Evangelical Protestants, Lincoln's Death Memorialized in NYC, Personalities A - M, Retros-Personalities | 1 |

Sermon: President Lincoln’s Life and Its Lessons. April 30, 1865

An Easter Story: the Norwegian Emmaus Road to New York City

by Tony Carnes | Apr 20, 2025 | Bay Ridge, Biographies, Dyker Heights, Easter, Easter Retro, Evangelical Protestants, Red Hook, Retros-Personalities, Statistics Peoples, Sunset Park | 0 |

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

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.

William F. Buckley, Jr. The Catholic Standard-Bearer of Conservatism born today in 1925

by Journey | Nov 24, 2024 | Catholics, Politics, law & faith, Retro Flashes, Retros-Personalities | 0 |

Born into a large Catholic family in NYC on November 24, 1925, Buckley became one of the seminal figures in American conservatism.

JUNE 9, 1870, LONDON JOURNEYER CHARLES DICKENS DIED

by Journey | Jun 9, 2024 | Retro Flashes, Retros-Personalities | 0 |

Charles Dickens, the great chronicler of London culture, died on this day. He edited a...

A Reflection on Tim Keller of NYC who Moved to Heaven 1-year ago

by Tony Carnes | May 19, 2024 | Biographies, Catastrophe theory, Evangelical Protestants, Personalities A - M, Postsecular City, Theology & religious studies, Upper East Side | 0 |

Tim Keller. Photo: Tony Carnes/A Journey through NYC religions Timothy James Keller went to Heaven...

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 | 2 |

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

Hero for our Year of the Dragon: Bruce Lee

by Tony Carnes | Feb 10, 2024 | Chinese, Lunar New Year, Retros-Personalities | 0 |

Courtesy of Saint Francis Xavier College, Hong Kong Just over 50 years ago in 1973, Bruce Lee...

J.C. Penney — A CHRISTMAS BURIAL, THEN HOPELESSNESS

by Tony Carnes | Dec 19, 2023 | Biographies, Bowery retrospecive, Christmas, Evangelical Protestants, Faith-based business, Faith-based social services, Personalities N - Z, Upper East Side | 0 |

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.

Oct 8, 1942 C.S. Lewis publishes “A Preface to Paradise Lost”

by Journey | Oct 7, 2023 | Retro Flashes, Retros-Personalities, Theater & Dance, Theology & religious studies | 0 |

October 8, 1942 C.S. Lewis publishes A Preface to Paradise Lost. The book is a technical...

Remembering Peter Berger! Humorist, sociologist, explorer, occasional theologian

by Journey | Jun 27, 2023 | Biographies, Personalities A - M, Retro Flashes, Scholars | 0 |

Late Tuesday evening, June 27, 2017, famed interpreter of modern religion Peter L. Berger passed away at his home in Brookline.

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