Archive for the ‘Evangelicals’ Category
Part 4: The Making of the Postsecular City. The Manhattan Evangelicals and the religious context of 1975
There was not much happiness among the major religions of the city either. In City Center Manhattan the evangelical and liberal Protestants, Catholics and Jews were all in a depleted state. If Tammy had read The New York Times in August before she moved to the city, she would have discovered the dismal news from [...]
Part 3: The Making of the Postsecular City. The Manhattan Evangelicals and NYC around 1975
Because of the tremendous troubles that beset New York in the 1970s, many evangelicals, Jews and others started to resurrect the old eponym for the city, “Sodom and Gomorrah.” In The City’s End. Two centuries of fantasies, fears and premonitions of New York’s destruction Max Page said that popular culture provided a staccato of doom-beats [...]
Part 2: The Making of the Postsecular City. 20th Century decline of evangelicals in NYC
The decline of the evangelicals is peculiar to a fifty year period within the city’s almost four hundred year history. The religious decline was bracketed by a predominance of evangelicalism in the 19th and early 20th Century and its revival starting in the 1970s. The periods of evangelical effervescence were marked by massive immigration, migration [...]
The Making of the Postsecular City. The Manhattan Evangelicals, Part 1
On November 11th Tammy Wong attended a brand new evangelical church, Hillsong NYC, in Manhattan, one of over 200 evangelical churches in the lower and middle of the island. The co-pastors Carl and Laura Lentz were trained at Hillsong, a charismatic church in Australia famous for its music and worldwide outreach. Co-pastor Joel Houston is [...]
NYC’s Brazilian “Black Swans”
Something unpredictable is happening in New York City. It is the arrival of “Black Swans.” For a millennia most people thought there were only white swans. Then, the news spread that in Australia there were black swans. Thousands of years of experience and a mindset that said that swans are only white were contradicted. Everyone [...]
Evangelical Church Growth
After three decades of rapid evangelical church and ministry planting in the New York City metropolitan area, can they keep it up? 1978 was the beginning. The number of evangelical church and ministry plants in that year was almost three times greater than the average number per year for previous decades. Since then, the number [...]
