Adam Magazine on the Crazy Years

Looting, killing and raping -- by twisting their words they call it "empire"; and wherever they have created a wilderness they call it "peace" -- Tacitus

Friday, July 6

Here's a photo essay on 16th Street, which is the location of dozens of churches.

"16th Street can seem like the longest street in Washington, D.C. There are no storefronts along its five-mile stretch. Once envisioned as the city's luxury corridor, it was expected that embassies of foreign countries would settle here. Over the years, however, most of the embassies chose Massachusetts Avenue. Churches chose 16th Street.

Today there are dozens of houses of worship: Russian Orthodox, Christian Science, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Unitarian. The list includes Trinity A.M.E. Zion, St. George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church, and Buddhist Congregational Church of America. If Pennsylvania Avenue is home to the nation's politics - and K Street its lobbyists - 16th Street is home to its religions."

Its a good thing I'm so devout.


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