The city of Cairo sits at the dead end of Illi­nois and on the edge of obliv­ion. In this trav­el­ogue we vis­it a town that has fall­en on hard times and falling apart, but not with­out a post-apoc­a­lyp­tic charm.

A look at the The Cold­est Hour Is Before the Dawn by Akai. It is a dis­ser­ta­tion eval­u­at­ing the music album an artis­tic, reli­gious state­ment of Jehovah’s Wit­ness­es. It exam­ines the views of Jehovah’s Wit­ness­es toward the world around them as well as their own hopes and fears. Com­par­i­son are drawn between this view­point and what is offered by Jesus.