Sarah Laing

Fighting the Good Fight: Profile of an Evangelical Missionary in Italy

A lighted cross.

Brent Harrell is a Protestant Evangelical from Boise, Idaho who now lives and works in Rome as a missionary for his faith. Through his various efforts, some stemming from within the church he set up in a suburb of Rome, he hopes to missionize the world’s most Catholic country.


Beyond San Giovanni Rotondo: Padre Pio still speaks to the world

A technician works the soundboard at Tele Radio Padre Pio. | Photo by Anne Cohen.

Tele Radio Padre Pio, broadcasts Padre Pio-related content 24 hours a day, acros four continents. Here’s a glimpse inside this small but potent operation, right in the heart of San Giovanni Rotondo.


Walls closing in

San Clemente

Claustrophobia was abated, as Sarah Laing, descended into the murky depths of the San Clemente Church, in Rome.


Molto Rapido: March 9, 2011

Professor Goldman.

A sleepless night, mixed with jetlag and a healthy dose of mid-semester exhaustion, produces a wonderfully random first impression of Rome.


Lifting holy hands

hands

Vigorous whole-body worship is par for the course at one of New York’s fastest growing churches, an offshoot of Hillsong Church, a vaguely Pentecostal evangelical group based out of Australia.