Man with scruffy beard, beanie, and frayed sweater sits at a coffee shop table, nails painted blue, looking unimpressed, with a coffee cup in front of him and blurred patrons in the background.

#Blessed

A coffee shop sneeze turns into a very Asheville meditation on politeness, performance, and the quiet holiness of basic human decency.

Sometimes It’s Easy to Forget Asheville Is In the Bible Belt

A “new study” named North Carolina the 6th most religious state in the U.S. for 2025, citing “the most religious establishments per capita” and “the highest share of adults who are ‘very religious.’”