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church

A building used for public Christian worship
A particular Christian organization, typically one with its own clergy, buildings, and distinctive doctrines
The hierarchy of clergy of such an organization, esp. the Roman Catholic Church or the Church of England
one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
perform a special church rite or service for; “church a woman after childbirth”
a place for public (especially Christian) worship; “the church was empty”

pews

(pew) long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
An enclosure or compartment containing a number of seats, used in some churches to seat a particular worshiper or group of worshipers
A long bench with a back, placed in rows in the main part of some churches to seat the congregation
The congregation of a church
A pew is a long bench seat or enclosed box used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church, or sometimes in a courtroom.
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Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America (Religion and Politics series)

Is the “private” experience of religion counterproductive to engagement in public life? Does the “public” experience of religion contribute anything distinctive to civic engagement? Pews, Prayers, and Participation offers a fresh approach to key questions about what role religion plays in fostering civic responsibility in contemporary American society. Written by five prominent scholars of religion and politics, led by Calvin College’s Corwin Smidt, the book brilliantly articulates how religion shapes participation in a range of civic activities — from behaviors (such as membership in voluntary associations, volunteering, and charitable contributions) to capacities (such as civic skills and knowledge), to virtues (such as law-abidingness, tolerance, and work ethic).
In the course of their study the authors examine whether an individual exhibits a diminished, a privatized, a public, or an integrated form of religious expression, based on the individual’s level of participation in both the public (worship) or private (prayer) dimensions of religious life. They question whether the privatization of religious life is counterproductive to engagement in public life, and they show that religion does indeed play a significant role in fostering civic responsibility across each of its particular facets.
Pews, Prayers, and Participation is a bold and provocative clarion call to the continuing importance and changing nature of religion in American public life. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of religion and politics, and culture and politics, as well as general readers with an interest in the impact of religion in the public sphere.

St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church

West Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

St. Mary’s Protestant Episcopa) Church in Manhattanville has been in continuous service for almost 175 years on its original site. In 1823, the village founders solicited the Rev. William Richmond, rector of St. Michael’s in Bioomingdale, who had been conducting services in a mission schoo! in Manhattanville for three years, to help them organize this parish and a free school. A white wood frame church building with a steeple was constructed in 1824-26 facing Lawrence Street . Several generations of Manhattanville’s founding families have worshipped at St. Mary’s including Jacob Schieffelin, who laid out the village’s roads, and his wife Hanna Lawrence, whose surname marked the street on which they donated the land to erect the first church building. In 1831, in deference to the poor constituents of its parish, St. Mary’s abolished pew rentals, becoming the first "free pew" Protestant Episcopal church in the city.

The parish house, when erected as a parsonage in 1851, housed the village’s first resident clergyman. In 1890, St. Mary’s commissioned a Sunday school building, now located at the rear of the church, by architect George Keister. In 1908-09, the frame church was replaced by the present English Gothic-style brick church designed by Theodore E. Blake with the prestigious Carrere & Hastings firm. Despite the urbanization of the surrounding area, St. Mary’s complex of church, Sunday school, and white frame parish house surrounding a garden evokes the early days of the village of Manhattanville.

History of Manhattanville"

A dormant geological fault line/ perhaps assisted by an ancient channel of the Hudson River, probably forged the ravine that came to contain the village of Manhattanville. The first non-native settlement began around the mid-seventeenth-century as some Dutch villagers of Nieuw Haerlem made their way west across the island to this outlying valley they called Moertje David’s Fly. Probably first used as pasture lots, the meadows sloped between the rim of Joachim Pieter’s Hills to the north and the steeper southern cliffs, spliced by a rustic path that branched northwest off the Indian trail to Spuyten Duyvil, past the Bloomingdale road toward the Harlem Cove. It was along these southern hills in 1712 that seven lots among New Harlem’s first division of lands were delineated as farm properties.

During the Revolutionary War period, the valley facilitated George Washington’s retreat from the British on Long Island towards his headquarters at the Roger Morris House . The general induced the British to advance into the "Hollow Way," as the valley was then known, whereupon his own American troops drove them back, defeating them in the bloody Battle of Harlem Heights in a nearby buckwheat field just to the south on September 16, 1776.

During the War of 1812, the anticipation of British attacks resulted in the construction of a series of fortifications that, in the Manhattanville area, included Block House No. 4, on the present-day southeastern comer of West 123rd Street at Amsterdam Avenue, on the rocky outcrop of what is now Morningside Park’s northern end, and the Manhattanville Pass , a military checkpoint that straddled the Bloomingdale Road at present-day Broadway and West 123rd Street and which was commanded by Fort Laight at present-day Broadway and West 124th Street.

In approximately 1806 city surveyor Adolphus Loss surveyed parcels of land and laid out streets. Some local landowners described Manhattanville as a developing village in the New York City’s Ninth Ward. Building lots were being advertised for sale "principally to tradesmen" in this enclave that already boasted a "handsome wharf," "convenient Academy," and an "excellent school."" At this time the Corporation of the Common Council was laying out "wide and open" streets from the East River to the Hudson, where 300-ton vessels might lie in safety in the Cove/ Already underway were a two-story frame "house of entertainment,’"" a new marketplace, a daily inexpensive stage line as well as boat service commuting the eight miles between the city and village, and a ferry service to New Jersey.

Most residents of Manhattanville were tenant farmers or factory workers, and the village bustled with the trade and traffic of several small industries that would eventually include the D.F. Tiemann color works, a worsted mill, and the Yuengling Brewery.

Throughout the 1800s, Manhattanville’s population increased and changed demographically. In 1823, about fifteen dwellings dotted the valley, which was populated mostly by poor British- and Dutch-Americans and a few blacks." An 1832 cholera epidemic diminished the small population. On October 27, 1834, New York City Mayor Cornelius Lawrence signed an ordinance to fill in a Manhattanville pond between Tenth and Elevent

Second Church of Christ Scientist / San Francisco

The Second Church of Christ, Scientist, is a Beaux Arts beauty with a domed roof and classically designed façade.

The Beaux Arts style, which derives from Greek and Roman structures, was popular between 1880 and 1930. The church, built in 1916 and overlooking historic Dolores Park, features marble stairs leading to a two-story portico with three sets of wooden doors. Giant Tuscan order columns frame the entrance, and 16 arched windows are placed symmetrically throughout the structure. The impressive interior has the centralized, monumental dome with clerestory windows, oak pews arranged in semi-circular fashion, marble flooring in a spacious lobby, original lighting fixtures, and an organ that was used in the Panama Pacific Exposition of 1915.

William H. Crim, the architect of this church, was born in 1879 in San Francisco and became one of the leading architects of the Pacific Coast; his other projects included the Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist; the Mission Savings Bank Building, and the Pacific Coast Envelope Building.

Even though it survived both the 1906 and Loma Prieta earthquakes virtually unscathed, the church was embroiled in controversy in recent years after the San Francisco Department of Public Works decreed that the unreinforced brick building must come down. To retrofit the building and bring it up to code would cost up to $5 million, a sum far beyond the reach of the church’s tiny congregation, which in 2008 proposed to destroy the building and replace it with a smaller edifice and several condos whose sale would finance the new church building. Preservationists seeking to have the Mission Dolores area declared a National Historic District resisted, and a study by the city’s Planning Department agreed on the historic value of the church, recommending either no action, or bringing the building up to code. Results so far: The church has been on the market for several years for $10 million and the outcome is uncertain.

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To understand Pepe Le Pew, one must remember the impact that Charles Boyer had in Hollywood. He set women’s hearts aflutter, and epitomized the suave, continental lover in most Americans’ minds. It was in that vein that Pepe Le Pew came to life with Mel Blanc doing a spoof of Boyer’s lovemaking voice. This amorous skunk made his movie debut in the 1945 cartoon “The Odor-able Kitty”, and has been pursuing ever-elusive romance ever since. This video contains 8 fully animated cartoons. From his fractured French, to the mistaken-identity dilemma that puts a cat in the uncomfortable position of being pursued in every film, these Skunk Tales are consistently entertaining, and filled with the aroma of laughter.