Press Room

Media Contacts

Timothy Sato
Communications Director
213.740.8562 or 213.740.0962
timothys@usc.edu

Brie Loskota
Managing Director
213.740.8562
bloskota@usc.edu

The Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California has experts who are able to speak on numerous topics. In addition to its own faculty and staff, CRCC can also assist journalists as they develop their stories and refer them to both academic and faith community leaders to offer their informed opinions

We have experts who can address topics such as:

African American churches
Civic role of religion and faith-based organizations in Southern California
Capacity of faith-based organizations to address social issues
Church and state issues
Faith-based non-governmental organizations
Faith-based social services
Fast-growing churches with active social and community ministries in the developing world
Genocide and development in Armenia and Rwanda
Immigrant religious communities in Los Angeles
Missionaries and evangelical missions
Muslim-Jewish engagement and interfaith activity
New religious movements
Religion and social change
Religion and public education
Religion and community organizing/development
Religion and values
Religion's contributions to the civic life of Los Angeles
Religious practices of young adults
Social ethics
Transnational religious issues

Recent Media

August 21, 2009
“Passing the Mantle”
Watch the PBS News program “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly” on CRCC’s Passing the Mantle Clergy and Lay Leadership Institute.

July 10, 2009
"The S Factor: A conversation about Pentecostalism with Donald E. Miller"
Read the interview in the July/August issue of Books and Culture

June 15, 2009
"'Old Lions' take pride in their social activism"
Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times

March 2, 2009
“Pentecostalism's Los Angeles Roots Go Global: USC College's Center for Religion and Civic Culture launches $6.9 million Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative”
Susan Andrews, USC College News

February 24, 2009
Holy Spirit's Reach Studied
Paul Steven Ghiringhelli, Charisma Magazine