Melissa Kimiadi
Melissa Kimiadi is Deputy Director and a reporter for A Journey through NYC religions.
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From the Diary of our first foreign correspondent: How sympathetic objectivity helped me in Indonesia
This kind of trust in my sources gave me the courage to leap into uncharted territories.
NYC pastor’s cultural revolution reaches Kupang, Indonesia
The Big Apple has become an exporter of religious ideas, regaining a role that it had in the 19th Century. I came across this phenomenon while reporting for A Journey through NYC religions from a far-flung outpost on an island in Indonesia. Following up my reporting on Indonesians in New York City, in January I [...]
Demonic Possession in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
A pair of blood shot, hazy eyes stared coldly at Apostle Pauline McKnight. Pacing back and forth, McKnight prayed.
Gnostic missionary in Washington Heights
“We are going to wake our consciousness,” announced Antonio Perez to his three students, “To succeed, we need to learn the higher level of thinking, which is not to think. We need to stop being slaves to our minds.” The attentive adults nodded their heads in agreement as Perez hung each word in the [...]
Dawn Eden’s Lives of the Saints for victims of sexual abuse
When Dawn Eden was five years old, she was molested by the janitor at the local Jewish temple. The janitor placed his hand on her pre-adolescent thighs in the temple’s library. After Eden complained, her mother’s response was, “How could you let him do that?”
Harlem and Thailand: parallel universes in the Mormon world
A Journey special report from New York City and Chiang Mai, Thailand*
The Power of Mormon Education
The general feeling within the Mormon Church is that education never stops. Seventh in our series “The Power of the Mormons in New York City”
The Power of a Pioneer Harlem Woman. Updated with video!
Fourth in our series “The Power of the Mormons in New York City”
