Archive for the ‘Religions’ Category
Pope Francis I (Updated March 16, 2013)
Updated with video from Pope’s first press conference. Says journalists & church should have same values: truth, beauty, & kindness.
David Brooks on The meaning of Pomegranate, a Whole Foods for Orthodox Jews
Pomegranate looks like any island of upscale consumerism, but deep down it is based on a countercultural understanding of how life should work.
Golem: demons, idols or saviors of the city?
Since at least the 19th Century, golems have lived in the streets and minds of New York City.
“Ed Koch was our Moses” — Mayor Michael Bloomberg
At funeral services at Temple Emanu-El on 5th Avenue this morning, Mayor Bloomberg said that Koch led the city out of despair and decay and gave us hope.
Ed Koch, ready to give God trouble. We will miss him. December 12, 1924 – February 1, 2012
A self-declared “liberal with sanity,” Koch surprised his friends by developing a close friendship with John Cardinal O’Connor.
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 [...]
Video Feature: Portraits of life in a Russian Jewish Cemetery
Immigrant faces, poems & epitaphs are laser-etched on black granite at Washington Cemetery in Midwood, Brooklyn.
NYC Muslims — No Time for the Quran
Holy book suffers in the hurried city life. Education issues for 2013.
Atheists’ music famine relief by Brooklyn gospel music composer Jacob Garchik
Issues 2013 Relieving the atheist music crisis
