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Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…the corner of Washington and Hill Streets. Graham’s enormously successful Los Angeles crusade in 1949 brought him national attention, in no small measure because newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, impressed with the young evangelist’s preaching and his anti-communist rhetoric, instructed his papers to “puff Graham.” From Los Angeles, Graham took his evangelistic crusades around the country and the world, thereby providing him with interna…

Mormons, LGBT People Respond to Packer’s Talk

By Joanna Brooks

…in the diaspora. When they found out she was a Mormon from Utah, people in Los Angeles, she recalled, would sometimes reach out to feel her head for horns. Late in her life, she and I talked about homosexuality—we talked about everything—and she recalled back in the 1950s a boy who grew up on her block in her middle-class Los Angeles suburb, a child who she always knew was different, and kindly she asked, “I wonder what has happened to him? I wond…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…ased Museum of Tolerance decided in the mid-1990s to build a branch of its Los Angeles campus. For those not familiar with Jerusalem’s recent history, a museum of Tolerance might seem just what the city needs. And as for calling it “a Center for the Human Dignity”—what could be wrong with that? The Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance is named for Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Founded in 1993 by Marvin Hier, an Orthodox Rabbi ordained at New Yeshiva Un…

“Integrated into a Burning House?”: A Pre-Inauguration Conversation with Rev. Cecil Murray

By Anita Little

…k church’s past might inform its future in this new era. First AME Church, Los Angeles, 1872 ______ Anita Little: How is the black church community in Los Angeles reacting to our incoming president, and how will the black church be moving forward? Rev. Cecil Murray: I can’t be sure because no one of us can speak for all of us. One thing many of us agreed on was that he was elected by a closet crowd. These are the same states that pretended they we…

No Buddhists in Washington?

By Danny Fisher

…which has been explored in recent articles in both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Consider the newly founded, New York-based Buddhist Global Relief, whose mission is to “provide relief to the poor and needy throughout the world regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, or religion.” These are but a very few examples of the incredible work of Buddhists in America. A Buddhist representative on the Council on Faith-based and Neighborh…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…supposedly en route to the Pride event in West Hollywood. As I watched the Los Angeles SWAT team and armored vehicles cruising up and down the LA Pride parade route a couple hours later, my heart broke and my body ached. I walked along the route and saw the same anti-gay protestors who show up every year. Yesterday, they were behind two sets of barriers with a squad of SWAT officers next to them. And as I stood across from them, listening to their…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…cost of true discipleship. The price it was called upon to pay was all too cheap…We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale; we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation unasked and without condition…Was there ever a more terrible and disastrous instance of Christianizing the world than this? It’s regrettable, I think, that “cheap grace” has turned into a kind of meme that Rod Dreher can toss into his debate with Andrew Sullivan without…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…n players, it doesn’t show that the religious right is dead because it has lost a number of figureheads from the 1970s; it shows just how successful it has been in creating a diverse bench of “anointed” leaders. When a presidential candidate reaches out to them, it shows how Doug Wead’s 1985 advice to George H.W. Bush has become a standard blueprint for winning the GOP nomination and even the presidency. His one thousand targets, though, have mult…

The Sacred and the Dead: ‘Friend of the Devil’ is a Love Song

By Pitman B. Potter

…he band’s songs express solidarity with people on the margins of society: “Loser,” “Jack Straw,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Wharf Rat,” and “Friend of the Devil” each depicts the troubled lives of card players, petty criminals, gamblers, and other down-and-out souls in ways that evoke empathy. A special series on religion and culture produced in collaboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California It is in that compassio…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…oss a range of inappropriate behaviours. To cite just one example: 39% disclosed inappropriate touching or closeness, compared to 27.2% of cisgender women and 16.4% of cisgender men. The survey organizers caution that the data they collected is unlikely to be representative of Episcopalians as a whole. “Because victims/survivors are more likely to complete a survey on [their victimization],” they argue in the preface to their report, the percentag…