Church in the heart of Hipsterville

[Fatty McGee]

A humorous look:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/st-lydias-microchurch-brooklyn-secret-christians/404119/

"Yet as culturally defiant as St. Lydia's might be, Scott said, it can be a struggle to be publicly Christian in Brooklyn. She's talking about a specific class of the neighborhood, of course—historically, the borough has had vibrant Jewish and Catholic communities, and still does today. It also has a rich Protestant history: In the nineteenth century, it was known as "the city of churches," and was home to some of America's most famous Congregationalist clergymen. But in today's young, progressive, creative-class circles, "all of those cultural connotations of what a Christian is ... are totally negative," Scott said. "I've definitely heard that they find themselves censoring themselves when they talk with friends about going to church. ... For some of them, posting about St. Lydia's on Facebook for the first time was like a really big deal.""