Tony Carnes
Tony Carnes is editor and publisher of A Journey through NYC religions. He started Journey in 2010 in order to search for every church, cathedral, synagogue, shtiebel, mosque, temple, zendo, and ashram in the five boroughs of New York City.
Bio last updated June 17th, 2021.
Articles by Tony Carnes
Renewing Faith in News
By Tony Carnes
May 2, 2017
Practicing what Tony Carnes calls “sympathetic objectivity,” reporters with the Journey through NYC Religions project find stories in every church, synagogue, mosque and place of worship in New York City. His article below is part of Cardus’ Religion and the Good of the City publication released this week.
Practicing what Tony Carnes calls “sympathetic objectivity,” reporters with the Journey through NYC Religions project find stories in every church, synagogue, mosque and place of worship in New York City We are constantly pushing to show more and more religious details in every crevice of the city so that after a while New Yorkers start to say, “Of course, we take it for-granted that religion is natural to New York City The counting of the social services of the faith-based groups in the city starts to show us for the first time the true size and detailed presence of faith-based inputs to the public good As we practiced the interaction of mutual learning, we were beginning to see that the urban public square that was desperately needed for our times was one in which believers of all types and non-believers could listen to each other sympathetically and empathetically, arrive through open minds and open hearts at a rough objectivity, and, if necessary, a scepticism about claims that didn’t match up