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Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ullo Saipov drove his rented Home Depot truck down a bicycle path in lower Manhattan, killing eight and injuring far more. When his truck ground to a stop after ramming a school bus and Saipov fled on foot, only to be caught moments later, a note left inside the truck cab said that the Islamic State “would endure.” What was jarring about this note, aside from the link it made with radical Islamic ideology, was its proclamation of the movement’s en…

Christianity-Lite, in 140 Characters or Fewer?

By Pauline Hope Cheong

…black and white photos of a recent staging of the Stations of the Cross in Manhattan to reveal scriptural passages, prayers, and meditative music. Interestingly, with this digital Stations presentation, user interactivity is elevated to another level online, with enhanced visual and sensory appeals. Media spectacle here is presented as a Web version of the Stations of the Cross, and believers are urged to click and “pray as you go” online. To be s…

Bishop, Priest, Protester Arrested in Trinity Wall Street/Occupy Clash

By Elizabeth Drescher

…as to deal with. Like it or not…Trinity Wall Street owns the bulk of Lower Manhattan, they have the largest portfolio of any congregation in the global Anglican Communion, and they reap the benefits of the 1%…We have to do something now that brings a conscience to capitalism… Protestors and supporters may have been wondering What Would Jesus Do? yesterday, but at this point the big question seems to be this: Will the Episcopal Church be able get i…

There is Another Reason Trump Refuses to Concede the Election

By Chad Bauman

…’s admiration for prosperity theology is well-documented. He was raised in Manhattan’s Marble Collegiate Church, which was pastored by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, whose The Power of Positive Thinking, was a key text in the prosperity movement and took the nation by storm. Similarly, the president’s spiritual advisor, Paula White-Cain, is a prominent contemporary figure in the movement, having survived a 2007 investigation opened by Republican Senato…

Cooler than Thou: Will Hipsters Wreck Christianity?

By Nicole Greenfield

…stone are a thing of the past to such groups because, as the director of a Manhattan-based artist ministry says, “that just wouldn’t fly in a post-Christian city like New York.” At Pete’s Candy Store, the bar where Revolution holds its Sunday evening services, Bakker tries to build not just a solid community—through a deep commitment to fighting social injustices, for example—but an egalitarian one as well. He doesn’t want to command all of the at…

American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence

By Michael A. Elliott

…not, and uncertainty sits at the core of the cultural anxiety it maps. The Manhattan setting of American Fever is the thickest example we have in the United States of a heterogeneous community compacted into a bounded physical space; a place of face-to-face interaction and networks. The novel is not simply about what happens to that community in a time of intense crisis, but what happens to that community in the age of the Internet. Perhaps a bett…

Pastafarian Rights, Israeli Rosa Parks, Orthodox
Jewish P.I.

By Michael J. Altman

…ng was empty and under renovation at the time and the cause was unknown. A Manhattan judge threw out an ex-firefighter’s lawsuit attempting to stop the building of an Islamic center blocks away from Ground Zero. Facon offers Jews an option for making it through America’s “Bacon Boom.” Israeli “Freedom Riders” are women exercising their right to sit wherever they want on the bus. Mark Silk asks if Eric Cantor should get the same questions as Paul…

Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?

By David Krueger

…in this northeastern city, numbering just over 40,000. Despite their small numbers, the church is rumored to have spent upwards of 100 million dollars to build this temple, located in a prime downtown location, and constructed with detailed craftsmanship rarely seen in contemporary buildings. In terms of sheer size it rivals the nearby Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, and the headquarters of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which serves o…

Where the Wild Things Aren’t Just Jewish

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…f American Jewish identity. A son of immigrants in Brooklyn, he longed for Manhattan, calling the shining spires of the city “America.” He held religiosity at arm’s length but based the images of his Wild Things on his Jewish relatives, the ones who threatened to pinch his cheeks and consume him with their love and their desperate longing for continuity on the shores of this new world: “We’ll eat you up!” He lived in the shadow of the Holocaust—hi…

How to Die in America: A Conversation with Ann Neumann

By Ellie Faustino

…ok that I’m going to quote: Let’s say I get hit by a bus on the streets of Manhattan. A bystander calls 911 and I am rushed to the nearest hospital, which happens to be Catholic. On the way, the paramedics are able to restart my heart, they are able to restart my lungs, but I was without oxygen for more than four minutes. At the hospital, a few days after I’m admitted, I’m given a feeding tube (all of which would happen at any hospital in the coun…