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Los Angeles’ Homelessness Emergency Is a Crisis of Values
This post also appeared on Equal Voice News and Huffington Post. A state of emergency signals that a catastrophe, social or natural, has challenged or upended civic order. Under states of emergency, …
The Conversion of Freddie Roach: Boxing Without Religion
This post originally appeared on Huffington Post. Freddie Roach is the best known and one of the most beloved trainers in the history of boxing. He has posed for more selfies than …
Mapping the New Landscape of Religion in Los Feliz
This article originally appeared in BOOM: A Journal of California. Mt. Hollywood Congregational Church was in trouble. Its congregation had become too small to sustain the decaying Los Feliz building that had …
Jim Wallis: Black Lives Matter’s Challenge to Faith Leaders
Progressive Evangelical leader Jim Wallis wants Christians to take on the challenges of racism in the United States. He spoke about race, religion and Black Lives Matter with the USC Cecil Murray …
Database: Religious Groups in Southern California
In 2013, CRCC obtained a database of religious congregations in the five-county region that makes up Southern California. We have worked extensively with the database to make it more easily useable for …
Los Angeles Rallies Around Muslim Americans After Terrorist Attacks
Japanese and Muslim American groups, as well as other supporters, gathered for a candlelight vigil in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo neighborhood to remember the victims of recent terrorist attacks and stand up …
Praying for Rain in California
This piece originally appeared in the Yale ISM Review. “As an American Indian, all my life I have been cursed with the myth of the ‘Indian rain dance,’” Johnny P. Flynn wrote …
A Saintly Start-Up: Why Some New Churches Avoid a Corporate Model
Snapchat’s recent deal to lease more than 40,000 square feet in Venice caused some neighbors to throw up their hands in a “there goes the neighborhood” gesture. “Run for your lives! The …
Mapping Religious Institutions in Los Angeles
As a part of CRCC’s research on Religious Competition and Creative Innovation, 10 University of Southern California students traveled around the Los Angeles area this past summer to map religious institutions. They …
Beyond Prayers and Protests: Building Trust Among the Police and Community in Downtown Los Angeles
This is the first in a series of essays about the Trust Talks. The next event is October 3. On a Saturday last April, a group of pastors and other faith leaders …
What Real Estate Battles Say about Church
This post also appeared on Huffington Post Religion. What makes a church, a church? Is it the buildings? The programs? The members? These questions come to mind with recent real estate transactions …
#Push100: Faith Leaders Activate Against Violence
One of the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement’s alum, Pastor Michael Fisher of Greater Zion Church Family, has convened 40 pastors to take post at various major intersections around South Los …
Rev. Cecil Murray on the 50th Anniversary of the Watts Riots
Riots erupted in the African American neighborhood of Watts 50 years ago on August 11, after the arrest of a young black motorist, his mother and brother. The violence came out of …
Made in Los Angeles – How One Church Changed With Its Community
At her old church, church leaders looked “at me like a sinner for plucking my eyebrows!” remembered Sonia. The church’s gender-specific regulations, imported from the congregation’s mother church in El Salvador, also …
Future50 – LA’s Next Generation of Interfaith Leaders
The USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, in partnership with the Interreligious Council of Southern California (IRC), is pleased to announce the selection of a talented and diverse group of faith …
California Religious Demographics
Religious Profiles of Sample California Counties Every decade, the Glenmary Research Center publishes a profile of the religious affiliations of residents in every county in the United States. This is the major …
Storefront Churches
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