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Alice Jean McFerguson stood on Terrace Avenue in Altadena and watched her home burn to the ground before dawn on January 7, 2025. Her pastor, Bishop Christopher Milton of Holy Assembly Church of God in Christ, was beside her. “We took her from that point,” Mil... More »
Pasadena-based Fuller Theological Seminary announced last week that the Henry Luce Foundation and the Imago Dei Fund have backed its effort to help launch a network of Christian peacebuilders. Fuller said it will serve the network in a backbone role — fosterin... More »
Harambee Ministries will host an open mic night on Sunday, July 26, at 6 p.m. at its center at 1609 Navarro Ave. in Northwest Pasadena, according to Councilmember Tyron Hampton. The evening is presented by the ministry’s Youth Rebuild Fellowship Program and wi... More »
For one Saturday this summer, the Gothic Revival nave of All Saints Church will trade its hymns for silence. Monastics from Deer Park Monastery in Escondido — monks and nuns who live on a 400-acre Buddhist sanctuary in the chaparral mountains of Southern Calif... More »
Kimberlé Crenshaw helped give American public life two of its most argued-over phrases: intersectionality and critical race theory. On Tuesday night, she brings the story of how she arrived at them to a church just east of City Hall. Crenshaw, a law professor ... More »
Pasadena’s First United Methodist Church will host Los Angeles organizer Katy Hickman for a discussion on empowering and protecting voters of color, according to an announcement from the church. The church’s Church and Society group has scheduled the talk for ... More »
Fuller Seminary has appointed two scholars of church history and world Christianity, Yucheng Bai and Tom Whittaker, to the faculty of its Pasadena-based School of Mission and Theology. The two, who will begin with the 2026–27 academic year, add depth in church... More »
All Saints Church will host legal scholar and author Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw for a public conversation about her memoir Backtalker on Tuesday, July 21, at the church’s campus at 132 N. Euclid Ave. in Pasadena. The 7-to-9 p.m. event is part of the All Saints... More »
More than three decades ago, a physical therapist from Los Angeles answered a call from an Anglican bishop in western Kenya. What grew from that encounter — a community-based rehabilitation program serving people with disabilities across the North Rift Valley ... More »
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 »
