There’s so much to talk about when looking into the history of Easter. First, there’s its proximity to Passover. Than, there’s the Christian story of Jesus rising from the dead. Than there’s the pagan tradition of Oestre. Than there’s the whole Jesus-as-Sun-God Easter-is-astrological reading. Than there’s the New York City […]
The very wonderful Galen Stolee took this photograph as part of his Subway Nights project, which documents NYC subway life between the hours of 2 and 5am. A few years back the Chick Tract peeps decided saving souls was a 24-7 undertaking and began keeping their little shop o’ horrors […]
Took another trek to the Times Square subway stop to see if I could find the barefooted acoustic guitar reveler, Joachim, whose handout on praying in your bathroom I have been trying to reacquire for some time now, but once again came up short. As usual, I started my search […]
There’s so much a person could talk about when it comes to the Hare Krishna movement, ISKCON, and Vaishnavism in general, however, one things stands out: Hare Krishnas love you loving Krishna loving you loving Love. It’s not every day a person comes across a religious or spiritual tradition that […]
I’ve been having trouble finding Joachim (subway singer/chanter/informer of The Good News) lately. I used to see him playing around the Times Square subway stop whenever I had the unfortunate displeasure of going around those parts (or going specifically to pick up the latest Chick Tract comic of hate). I […]
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