This Is Our 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.