A Journey Through NYC Religions

2 weeks ago | nycreligion.info | Tony Carnes

A pair of seemingly unlikely, but typical New York mentors reached over the barriers of class, language, culture and national background to help Joe Hing Lowe, a young Chinese laundryman searching for a turning point in life. He was “pounding” shirts with a heavy old-fashioned iron at 4 cents per shirt. Bill Lawrence, an African American artist who knew the pains of rejection and loneliness, reached out to the young Chinese immigrant.

1 month ago | nycreligion.info | Tony Carnes

Who has believed our messageand to whom has the armof theLordbeen revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,and like a rootout of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,nothing in his appearancethat we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,a man of suffering,and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hidetheir faceshe was despised,and we held him in low esteem.

2 months ago | nycreligion.info | Tony Carnes

On April 13-15, 1992, amidst conflicts between police and Mayor David Dinkins, riots, deteriorating schools, and a vast scourage of crimes, evangelical Christians held their first major multi-racial, multi-ethnic conference in Twentieth-Century New York City to critically examine the relationship of racial and ethnic idolatries to the current crisis.

2 months ago | nycreligion.info | Tony Carnes

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Jan 30, 2025 | nycreligion.info | Tony Carnes

Walk up to the monument to Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi in the southwest part of Union Square Park. Reading the Q code with your phone, an actor will speak of Gandhi’s contribution to freedom. He is one of the quartet of freedom fighters memorialized in the park. George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette are there for their roles in founding the United States. And Abraham Lincoln is there for freeing the slaves and keeping the nation whole.