Andre Tartar

Andre Tartar is a freelance journalist whose work has been published in New York magazine and on the web at nymag.com, the Huffington Post and other media outlets. He is a recipient of a 2011 Knight Grant for Reporting on Religion and American Public Life, which underwrote his exploration of the Brazilian evangelical community in Queens, New York

(A)theologiesJanuary 21, 2013

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

I’ve often wondered why I hid from them that day. It was two years ago and a rousing Sunday service was winding down at the Portuguese Language Missionary Pentecostal Church in Queens.