This documentary, One LA: Standing Together, explores the creation of a broad-based community organization in Los Angeles County. One LA , an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, unites citizens to address issues such as housing, education, and immigration reform. The video includes interviews with One LA leaders, including Ernesto Cortés, Jr., Macarthur Fellow and lead organizer for One LA, and footage from the 12,000 person inaugural event.
Guest blogger Hannah Cohen describes a recent tour of Pentecostal sites in Los Angeles.
This post originally appeared at Trans-Missions, the USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion site. The recent retirement, then non-retirement, of famed Crystal Cathedral and “possibility thinking” pastor Robert Schuller, was reported …
Brie Loskota on investing according to “Christian beliefs”
Our ongoing project on the Los Angeles Dream Center has introduced us to many memorable people, among them, Alfred Lomas. Alfred is the director of the Food Truck ministry at the Dream …
Religious history in the former Soviet Union is more than a linear story of evangelization, conversion, and church growth.
According to a recent report from the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank, the number of people served by its affiliate food pantries, kitchens and shelters throughout Los Angeles County has increased 46% since …
Portraits of Faith, Hope and Social Transformation. Photographs by Jerry Berndt.
Portraits of Survival and Hope. Photographs by Jerry Berndt.
Recognizing, preserving and protecting cultural heritage in conflict zones