Passing Through

Vestiges and Ergun Caner's False Apology (A Two-fer)

But wait: Caner has already apologized for each of the specific wrongs that he has said to have done, right?  Not so fast: Caner’s Apology, the Pope and Word-Faithers, Shawn McCraney, and A Bit of WLC | Alpha and Omega Ministries

Not everything goes down the memory hole very easily.  Even in modern American government and in liberal NYC one can find vestiges of Judeo-Christian influence of Western society.  For anyone who wanted to look at pictures today, here you go--straight out of Brooklyn:

The public record and the ability of things to slip through the cracks in spite of a purge are why, of course, liars and desperate people resort to obfuscation.

Scared of Santa

Scared of Santa - a gallery on Flickr

Enjoy and Merry Christmas.

Side by Side...

...in Sunnyside.

Richmond Hill

Hell's Kitchen; or Numbers 32

There are no Sliders here.

St. Jerome

Hopefully the final version of this post due to weaknesses of Blogger: Click the picture while your browser is in full-screen mode and you can read more than just the watermarks above.

7th Avenue

This is not a minaret.

Daughters of Jacob

Somewhere in this picture is Church Alive Community Church.

The Mason-Dixon Line

Drive-In Church

In the Bowery

St. George

Around the Corner

And East 29th is not West 29th.

The Afterlife of Churches, Part 2

Here are two more examples of what could happen if the leadership of your church congregation does not become seeker-sensitive enough, or does not remain gospel-centered enough, or if the congregants simply move away or die out.  It could be that a college campus will be built around your former place of worship, and also turns it into a college admissions office:

Such is the case with the former Bridge Street Church and the Polytechnic Institute of NYU in Brooklyn.  Yet something far worse and dastardly could happen.  Take a look at St. Ann’s Church at 120 E 12th Street in Manhattan:

It looks normal enough, right?  Now take a second look.  Coincidentally NYU is part of the larger story here; they have dorms directly behind the facade of what used to be St. Ann’s Church.  Meanwhile, according to Wikipedia’s article on the subject it also served as a theater and a factory before finally being largely destroyed altogether.

All of this seems lamentable because while it may be cheaper to simply worship in people’s homes instead of shelling out money for a dedicated church building, a case can be made for the multi-faceted usefulness of church buildings.

No, thanks

Crooked

NOLA, again

Cathedral Cliché

(Which means I am now able to post again.)