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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 »
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 »
