A voting myth goes like this: In a presidential election, Evangelicals go right. Jews and Black Protestants veer left. Catholics take the middle, the swing...
Author - Peter Feuerherd
Bob Dylan was singing “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” And, circa 1968, in the Long Island, New York, parish of St. Anne’s in Garden City, they were. Sunday...
It is 1987, and CBS News’ Mike Wallace is interviewing Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration Thea Bowman for 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes is a top-rated program...
Two Sunday morning Masses in Charlotte, North Carolina, seen via video posted on each parish website, tell a story. At St. Peter Catholic Church downtown, a...
The future of policing can be found in Camden, New Jersey, a small, largely impoverished city with 70,000 residents. Camden is a city with a reputation for a...
On a winter’s day in New York City early in 2020, urban religion expert Tony Carnes walks down Broadway in Elmhurst, Queens, a boulevard that can be...
Larry Cohen, a Queens, New York weekend warrior of the hoops variety, pulled me aside after a game. “You are one of the whitest people I know,” he said. This...
Marshall McLuhan is now known as an unofficial patron saint of the internet, a communication theorist who predicted a linked world united in a global village...
When a woman had to quickly flee the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the United States after her husband was murdered because of political strife...