• Coffee: The Blood of Christ

The religious element at Rev Café isn’t exactly in-your-face. There aren’t any tracts or crosses that I could see in the clean and comfortable space, and I didn’t hear any Amy Grant or Sandi Patty over the sound system. But the friendly manager, Marlo, who was making drinks at that steamy espresso machine, was wearing a black T-shirt with a reference to Ezekiel 1:17 (When they went, they went in any of their four directions.) She told us that Rev Café is both the fund-raising business and the office for Lutheran Urban Mission Agency, which also operates a food pantry and utility assistance program out of the social ministry office at 715 Cesar Chavez Avenue.