In this video CRCC’s archives, visit the church where Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated, with guide Richard L. Wood, associate professor of sociology at University of New Mexico. Romero was canonized as a saint on October 14, 2018.
VideoThe Influence of Archbishop Oscar Romero
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KPCC: Najuma Smith-Pollard on Same-Sex Marriage and the Black Church
In 2008, a majority of Black voters helped ban same-sex marriage in California. KPCC talked to Najuma Smith-Pollard, program manager for the USC Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, about whether attitudes ...
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African American Muslims and the LAPD: Moving from Stories to Solutions
This article originally appeared in BOOM California. “We don’t want to walk into a kumbaya situation,” said Umar Hakim. The sixteen men and women gathered around a conference table in Inglewood simultaneously ...
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Sustaining Religious Life: Support for Catholic Sisters
Catholic sisters work with vulnerable populations around the globe. Their faith drives their dedication to serving “the least of these,” and yet, the conditions in which they work also can cause them ...
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Holy Listening Connects Young Adults to Churches
This post, co-authored by Dori Baker, originally appeared on Faith & Leadership. Multicolored Post-it notes dot the walls of the seminary classroom. Here, in a pop-up design thinking lab, people are buzzing ...
CRCC in the News
KPCC: Najuma Smith-Pollard on Same-Sex Marriage and the Black Church
In 2008, a majority of Black voters helped ban same-sex marriage in California. KPCC talked to Najuma Smith-Pollard, program manager for the USC Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, about whether attitudes ...
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5,000 Pies: Serving Pizza and Faith in Long Beach
5,000 Pies is a small, storefront restaurant and “social enterprise” operated by Fountain of Life Covenant Church in a multi-ethnic and economically challenged neighborhood on the west side of Long Beach, California. ...
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Reflections on My Experience as a Generation Change Fellow
By Ezekiel Nworie This blog post originally ran on Youth for Technology Foundation’s website. Call it an adventure, a dream realized, a handshake with experience or a door of opportunity. In June, I traveled ...
Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement
The Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement (CMJE) was an institutional partnership established in December 2007 between Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation and the Center for Religion ...
