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A coalition of four progressive interfaith and media organizations will present “People’s Independence Day: Reading America Into Being,” a free public program of readings and reflections, at the Orange Grove Friends Meeting Hall in Pasadena on Saturday, July 4... More »
The name on the chair dates to the 1950s. The scholar now holding it arrived in 2020 — but the thread connecting them runs through the same stretch of Oakland Avenue. Fuller Theological Seminary has appointed Dr. Janette H. Ok to the George Eldon Ladd Chair of... More »
The Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center will hold its second annual Pride Shabbat on Friday, June 26, in the borrowed sanctuary of First United Methodist Church — the same evening that marks the 11th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same... More »
Seventy-nine years ago, 39 students sat in child-sized chairs in the kindergarten rooms at Lake Avenue Church and formed the inaugural class of Fuller Theological Seminary. On Saturday, a new generation of graduates walked across a stage in that same church, e... More »
Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena will take over the academic mission, assets and programs of the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies, a Jacksonville, Florida-based graduate school that will close as an independent institution at the end of th... More »
First United Methodist Church, Pasadena will host social justice advocate John Thompson Parker on Sunday, June 28, at 11:30 a.m. for a public discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Voting Rights Act, according to a press release issued by ... More »
A melody that would evolve into the most famous hymn to joy in Western music got its first outing not in a symphony hall, but in a marathon concert in Vienna in 1808, tucked inside a piece Beethoven dashed off as a finale. More than two centuries later, it wil... More »
When actor Will Ferrell learned that his friend of three decades, former Saturday Night Live head writer Harper Steele, had recently completed her gender transition, he did not deliver a speech. He suggested a road trip. The resulting documentary, Will & Harpe... More »
First United Methodist Church in Pasadena will host a public conversation Sunday, May 31, at 11:30 a.m. in the Church Lounge featuring longtime member Marilynne Kennedy Wilander, who also serves as Elected Director in Development for the Pasadena Area League o... More »
Thirty-two devotees will sit together inside the Pasadena Hindu Temple on Sunday afternoon and chant sacred mantras 108 times — the opening act of a multi-part Vedic ceremony the temple says it has never held before. The ceremony combines four elements: group ... More »
The church calls it Tovaangar. So does Mona Morales Recalde. The difference is that Morales Recalde’s family has called it that for thousands of years. Morales Recalde, an enrolled member of the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians Gabrieleño/Tongva and an elec... More »
More than prayer filled the Pasadena Convention Center Exhibition Hall Thursday morning at the 53rd Annual Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast. There was coffee, applause, laughter, testimony and, perhaps most notably, a palpable sense of shared endurance. Hel... More »
