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 …
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Pope Francis Loves Nuns, But Can the Divide Between Sisters and Vatican Be Healed?
This post originally appeared on Religion Dispatches. Pope Francis confessed his love for a woman—for many women, actually—on national television this month. After talking with immigrant families in McAllen, Texas on the …
Bank Data on Diversity Can Help Close Racial Wealth Gap
Rev. Mark Whitlock, Executive Director of the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, wrote this Op-Ed for American Banker with Aubry Stone, president and CEO of the California Black Chamber of Commerce …
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: How Faith Communities Can Save Lives
One year before Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Louisiana’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness conducted a tabletop exercise that simulated a Category 3 hurricane hitting and …
#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 …
Talk Back Live: Murray and Whitlock on Racial Justice and the Black Church
Rev. Cecil Murray and Rev. Mark Whitlock were interviewed by Antoine Hawkins on his radio show, Talk Back Live. Click here to listen to the interview Here are some highlights: Asked about …
Charting the Future of Religion
This post originally appeared in Caring Magazine. At the start of a typical evening at Monday Night Mission, volunteers wiped down tables on a terrace outside a Burger King near Our Lady …
Outsiders as Insiders: How Student Researchers Joined a Jewish Wedding
By Asher Levy and Jonathan Kaye The North Hollywood Orthodox Jewish community is a substantial, thriving community with kosher markets and restaurants, synagogues, schools and all of the accouterments of observant Jewish …
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 …
How to Give to the Poor Without Getting Ripped Off – Church Finance Series
This version of this post originally appeared in the Los Angeles Sentinel. In bad economic times, churches are the targets of professional con artists committed to rip the church off. Some rip …