Archive for the ‘Brooklyn’ Category
Brooklyn sub categories : Crown Heights, Flatbush, Sunset Park and Williamsburg
From Pepper Street Gang to Glorious Brooklyn: Jackie Robinson’s faith journey
The Pepper Street gang created an epidemic of petty theft and malicious mischief. The members weren’t serious gangbangers like those in south Los Angeles today. Rather, they were a bunch of kids hanging together and getting in trouble. But to the store owners who were the targets of their small thefts, the car owners [...]
Jackie Robinson. A short tour of his NYC faith life
Church and faith were central to Jackie Robinson’s success.
Hebrew School in Brooklyn, 1955
The photographer Cornell Capa died nearly five years ago in New York City on May 23, 2008. Capa valued his religious heritage and photographing religion.
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.
Video: The Trickster Demon
A demon says it will inhabit a young woman, take her soul, and kill her children.
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.
Free to love: Catholic women vow dedication to poor in Brooklyn
A vibrant hive of young, mostly female missionaries, at St. Michael-St. Edward Church in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Best of the Web feature.
Dreams and divine connections at the hair salon
Our NYC Dream mini-series starts today. Coming up: Dreams in an African American church; and The Power of Dreams in the Bible!
God’s Row–Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn: Rising Stars Outreach Center
The good will of faith-based groups on Bedford Avenue radiates into the side streets like rays of sunshine. Sometimes, we are surprised by where we see their lights.
