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The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

…laboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California Like a lot of Bay Area Gen X kids, many of my friends’ parents were of the original generation Deadheads, with deep ties to the band and its mobile subculture, including a girl from my high school whose mother supplied enough acid to Dead parking lots to pay her kids’ private school tuition. In other words, being a Dead fan, for someone like me, would have been t…

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Ministries of Presence: A Report from Nepal

…3 on the Richter scale—struck Nepal on May 11, the day after I returned to California from Nepal.) Others—the healers from Africa and elsewhere—would offer relief to the traumatized during grueling shifts in Nepal’s overwhelmed hospitals, in surgical theaters, setting broken bones, stitching wounds, and compassionate bedside care. Interspersed among us, undoubtedly, were those hoping to offer some kind of spiritual aid, solace, or direction to the…

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Before Oprah, There Was the “Hour of Power”: Crystal Cathedral Pastor Robert H. Schuller Has Died

…e. When the Rev. Robert H. Schuller saw the concession stand of a southern California drive-in movie theater in 1955, his imagination bore the blueprints for a crystalline cathedral and thoroughly-modern ideas about spreading the Christian Gospel via television. Schuller, founder of the now-defunct Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., and the long-running spiritual television program Hour of Power, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with e…

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Muslim Women Create a Mosque of Their Own in Los Angeles

…a positive, welcoming experience growing up in the Garden Grove mosque in California, her childhood mosque was renovated and the women’s prayer space was moved upstairs. Maznavi was told not to pray downstairs. “The architecture slowly trickled down to the culture of the place,” said Maznavi. After experiencing more welcoming mosques and communities like Ta’leef Collective while living in the Bay Area, she moved back to Los Angeles hoping to find…

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U.S. Bishops’ 15–year Battle For ‘Conscience’ and Against Contraception

…heir evolving argument was dealt a huge setback, however, when in 2001 the California Supreme Court ruled that there was no need to exempt employers, even religiously affiliated ones, from that state’s contraceptive equity law beyond the narrow exemption granted to explicitly religious employers whose primary mission was the inculcation of faith and who employed people of their own faith. It was a decision that the U.S. Supreme Court let stand and…

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…o State University Sharon Brous IKAR Linell Cady Arizona State University John Caputo Syracuse University Rachel Cowan George Mason University, Gary Dorrien Union Theological Seminary Eddie Glaude Princeton University Harry Knox Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Ira Lapidus University of California at Berkeley Khalid Latif New York University Kathryn Lofton Yale University Haroon Moghul Columbia University Anthony Pinn Rice University Je…

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‘Hardwired’ for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights

…n 1% of the population of the states of Maryland, Maine, and Minnesota. In California, home to Proposition 8, LDS people constitute 2 – 3% of the state’s population.  In Hawaii, 70,000 Mormons comprise 5% of the state’s population. Mormon-majority communities have been in existence on Oahu’s North Shore since the late nineteenth century, and the North Shore community of Laie is home to a Brigham Young University campus and the LDS Church-owned Pol…

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Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

…heard of him. Wakara was a founding father of the states we now call Utah, California, and New Mexico. He also stole horses by the thousands from the California missions and enslaved hundreds of Paiute Indians, whom he sold at slave auctions in New Mexico and Utah. Wakara was a great and terrible man. But we know little about him. And what we know comes from the archive of his exploits—often called “Indian depredations”—recorded and stored in the…

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The Curious Case of Mormons and LGBT Rights

…concern may have been prescient. In 2010, because Judge Vaughn Walker, the California jurist who struck down Prop. 8, did not have sufficient legal precedent to use sexual orientation as a vulnerable class, he advanced the logic of sex discrimination in his ruling, that “because of their relationship to one another,” gays and lesbians are “discriminated against due to their biological sex” (See Perry v. Schwarzenegger, 2010 US Dist [N CA], p. 120-…

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#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

…addition to South Los Angeles. Blocks away from the University of Southern California, the new space is becoming a hub for students as well as locals. Among their many class offerings, the one that caught my eye was trap yoga. Trap yoga involves doing vinyasa flows to the beat of trap music, a bass-filled, gritty sub-genre of hip hop that originated in the South. It’s become somewhat of a gateway for people of color who wouldn’t feel at ease in ty…

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