CRCC, with Loyola Marymount University and the Magnolia Place Family Center, will be conducting interviews with congregations in Central Los Angeles and is looking for about 100 volunteers to conduct this research. The volunteer commitment requires one training session on...
The Religion News Service quoted American Muslim Leadership Institute director and co-founder Nadia Roumani in a story about the perception of Muslims approaching the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Americans say they now know more about Islam than they did 10...
Does the bankruptcy of Orange County's Crystal Cathedral signal that megachurches are on their way out? KPCC Southern California Public Radio talked to Richard Flory, CRCC director of research, in their quest to find out. Rev. Robert Schuller's ministry -...
The Daily Herald in Illinois featured American Muslim Civil Leadership Institute alum Junaid Afeef's efforts to raise funds for to help orphans in India by running while fasting for Ramadan. Afeef, 41, a member of AMCLI's first cohort, started running...
A new report published by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings explores the role of Muslim faith-based organizations in American civic life. Authors Brie Loskota and Nadia Roumani, co-founders of CRCC's American Muslim Leadership Institute, examine the...
Christianity Today referenced CRCC Executive Director Donald E. Miller's book Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement in an article about how Pentecostals are engaging in compassionate ministries and social change in numerous ways. In the book Global...
CRCC senior fellow Reuven Firestone teamed up with his wife Ruth Sohn for an article in Jewish Journal on Cairo's Tahrir Square and what it has come to mean in Egypt post-Hosni Mubarak. Firestone and Sohn write: Tahrir Square has...
In one of the most electrifying moments in “Eyes on the Prize,” the documentary about the civil rights movement that aired on PBS in 1987, an African-American teenager named Jimmy Webb tries to persuade a Selma police officer to let...
The American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute is currently accepting applications for its next cohort until September 6, 2011. AMCLI is housed at CRCC and works in partnership with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown...
Richard Flory, CRCC's director of Research, spoke to KPCC radio about the latest developments with the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA. The Crystal Cathedral’s board of directors have rejected serious bids from Orange County’s Catholic diocese, a real estate...