New York's Floating Churches

This article discusses a fascinating bit of American church history with which I was unfamiliar. In the early 1800s, a number of churches and Christian organizations in New York organized floating churches, to provide spiritual and material support to seamen. The last such church existed until 1910.

Source: This story was tweeted out by Fr Seraphim Beshoner, host of the excellent church history podcast, Catholic Under the Hood.

The Search For Black American Saints

This is a terrific article about the lack of black American saints, and the Catholic University that is trying to change that.

There are nearly a dozen Americans who have been canonized, and it is actually a fairly diverse group. Women are well-represented, a number were immigrants, and one was a Native American. But a group at Xavier University of Louisiana have identified 5 potential black candidates for canonization, including Pierre Toussaint (pictured above), Julia Greeley & Augustus Tolton.

Audiofeed Pics: More Bands

More bands that we saw at Audiofeed 2018, most of whom we talked about on our podcast episode covering the event, include the Mexican heavy metal band Deborah:

 And Insomniac Folklore:

And Laura McElroy:

And Mikayla Powers:

 And the ska-tastic stylings of Must Build Jacuzzi:

 

And Staghorn:

And there were Ninja Pirates, too!

Audiofeed Pics: The Prettybads!

Our recent podcast episode about Audiofeed 2018 included a discussion with pink-punk band The Prettybads. At the fest, we also took a few pictures of them. One from the stage:

And one from the merch table:

Audiofeed Pics: Harry Gore!

Our great and long-time friend Harry Gore played a number of sets at the recent Audiofeed Festival. The first night, he played a set of Christmas songs:

And then later in the fest, he was joined by Audiofeed (and before that, Cornerstone) legend Glenn Kaiser for a session of busking. Harry has busked at the two fests for decades.

And there was a selfie.

Audiofeed Pics: Podcast Promotion!

As we discussed in Podcast Episode 17, the Audiofeed Music and Arts Festival has continued the Cornerstone tradition of bands posting flyers on porta-potties, and any other flat surface they could find. But mostly porta-potties.

So when we printed up flyers to hand out at the fest, we knew where a few of them just had to go.