November 2011
CRCC Managing Director Brie Loskota delivered the following as her concluding keynote address at the 8th Annual American Studies Network Conference at Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China, in September. Download "Religion's Uneasy Place."(PDF) This paper explores the complicated roles...
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Richard Flory, CRCC director of research, was quoted in a report by NPR on the recent sale of the infamous Crystal Cathedral to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County. The Crystal Cathedral, an temple of glass in Garden Grove,...
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Richard Flory, CRCC director of research, was quoted in an article by the Los Angeles Times on the recent sale of the infamous Crystal Cathedral to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County. The Crystal Cathedral, an temple of glass...
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Richard Flory, CRCC director of research, was quoted in an article by the Associated Press on the recent sale of the infamous Crystal Cathedral to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County. The Crystal Cathedral, an temple of glass in...
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Richard Flory, CRCC director of research, was quoted in articles by the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, and NPR on the recent sale of the infamous Crystal Cathedral to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County. The Crystal Cathedral,...
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Last week I spent a day at the annual Evangelical Theological Society meetings in San Francisco. My entree to the event was an invitation from some colleagues who are working on an project linking theological reflection and California culture, which...
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The L.A. Sentinel wrote an article about USC's Cecil L. Murray Center for Community Engagement. The Murray Center, located a few blocks off-campus at 509 West 29th Street, had a soft launch this fall and currently has programming underway. The...
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The City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission hosted an important public forum Oct. 24th at Loyola Marymount University. The dialogue focused on faith-based efforts around poverty and homelessness as part of the city’s observance of Homelessness Awareness month....
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What matters to Reverend Cecil "Chip" Murray? History, education, faith, people. But most of all, understanding. Murray, holder of USC's John R. Tansey Chair in Christian Ethics and a senior fellow at the university's Center for Religion and Civic Culure,...
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Voice of America wrote a profile on USC's Dean of Religious Life Varun Soni, who is the first Hindu to be the chief religious or spiritual leader of a university and the only non-Christian currently serving in this capacity. He...
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