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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 »
Rep. Judy Chu will step away from Capitol Hill and into a church learning center on Saturday May 2 to talk about something that doesn’t usually make the congressional calendar: how faith becomes civic action. Chu, who represents Pasadena and the San Gabriel V... More »
For nearly 30 years, John M. Williams Jr. has made his living in the space where most people don’t want to sit — the uncomfortable, unresolved middle of conversations about race. His Pasadena-based organization, the Center for Restorative Justice, calls it cre... More »
A new cross-denominational campaign launched by the TENx10 Collaboration — housed at Fuller Theological Seminary on North Oakland Avenue in Pasadena — is calling on churches nationwide to rethink how they engage young people, arguing that personal relationship... More »
