St. James Church
Local Religious Parish and Daily Worship SiteDescription
Event Involvements
Events with structured involvement data
St. James Church is invoked in Donna's Fishhooks McCarty anecdote as the daily ritual anchor that humanizes a corrupt figure and legitimizes pragmatic compromises; it functions narratively as moral counterpoint rather than a physical actor.
Through Donna's retelling of McCarty's ritual and prayer — the church's presence is narrative and symbolic.
A moralizing cultural touchstone that provides authority to Donna's framing; not a direct actor in the political exchange.
Positions civic religious ritual as a lens to interpret political compromise, underscoring how personal faith and public pragmatism can be rhetorically intertwined.
Not directly engaged; functions entirely through staff narrative use.
St. James Church (as an organization invoked in Donna's anecdote) functions narratively to legitimize Fishhooks McCarty's ritual and to provide a moral-ritual foil for the administration's compromises.
Through Donna's retelling of Fishhooks' daily prayer stop; the church's presence is purely anecdotal.
Moral and cultural authority used symbolically rather than institutionally; not exerting direct influence on policy.
Provides a private moral vocabulary that staff use to reframe ethical compromises; highlights how faith language can be co-opted rhetorically.
Not applicable within the scene beyond anecdotal invocation.