New York City: The Heart of the City
When most Americans hear the word city, they think of this place. Perhaps no other U.S. locale holds as much iconic cache as New York City, the port of entry for European immigrants arriving to America for over a century, forming five boroughs, each with its own ethnic and cultural flavor. The Bowery Mission, Riverside Church, Allen AME Church, and other historic landmarks have more recently been joined by a proliferation of immigrant churches and white evangelicals, who now compose up to 5 percent of NYC’s population. Here, charismatic Christians are challenging their city’s wide divide between weak and strong—and showing that there is a power beyond the dollar and the degree.
How Bethany Jenkins's daily devotionals kickstart common-good Christianity in NYC.
Interview by Howard Freeman

12.5.13
The superstorm almost destroyed our home. What happened afterward shocked me.
Jeannine Seery

10.28.13
A look at Staten Island one year after the storm.
Christy Tennant Krispin

10.28.13
An interview with Kelly Crow, who has reported on the contemporary art world for 'The Wall Street Journal' since 2006.
Interview by Paul Glader

10.14.13
How NYC choreographer Elizabeth Dishman has thrived doing both.
Interview by Luann Jennings

9.30.13
How Sean Coughlin and the FaithStreet team are getting Americans into the pews.
Bret Mavrich

9.23.13
The story of a former pharisee turned public school champion.
Jeremy Del Rio

9.13.13
How Jonathon Roberts and Emily Clare Zempel are creating the largest multidisciplinary illuminated Bible.
Ryan Pendell

9.9.13
The story behind the prayer movement that ignited in New York City.
Mac Pier

9.9.13
Five Christians shaping their city of 8.3 million.
Christy Tennant Krispin and Roxanne Stone

8.29.13
How Jimmy Lee went from childhood bully to director of Restore NYC.
Helen Lee

8.28.13
Auto-repair shop owner George Zaloom says there's no reason why every Christian shouldn't find joy at work.
Nathan Clarke

8.28.13
Pastor Pete Armstrong says his church's relief efforts are among many common-good decisions to bless the Lower East Side.
Interview by Howard Freeman

11.29.12
And why more Christians are needed in urban planning.
Howard Freeman

10.16.12
The artist's move to Fuji farm follows a tradition of creatives finding new life away from bustling cities.
Daniel A. Siedell

9.25.12
The founder of the Harlem Children's Zone on why it takes a whole community to educate a child.
Interview by Allison J. Althoff

8.29.12
Why the evangelical quarterback has much to look forward to.
Anna Broadway

4.3.12
Urban areas give children a glimpse of the big wide world—when you're still around to discuss it with them.
Kathy Keller

3.16.12
NYC artist Gene Schmidt brings the words of Zechariah and 1 Corinthians to two urban landscapes.
Interview by Christy Tennant

1.6.12
As churches—including my own—are forced to find new places to meet, we've been challenged to react with love.
Caleb Clardy

12.12.11
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