It shouldn’t have surprised us, but it did. Situated as our sanctuary is on one of Los Angeles’ main boulevards, we receive our share of

When my pastor left a message for me a few weeks before I had to leave town, asking me to speak during a church service,

NOVEMBER 2007: AS WE SEE IT “Thou shalt place outside thy door a vat of fat. And this shalt be a sign unto the angel

NOVEMBER 2007: ESSAY On Those Always With Us by Thomas Allbaugh In 1972, I landed my first job, at a diner near the YMCA in

I recently had a conversation with a young man who was part of the Soulforce- sponsored Equality Ride that toured Christian colleges and universities in

I have been raising money for more than twenty five years, first for a moderately liberal Protestant seminary and now for a recovery center for

NOVEMBER 2007: REVIEW What does it mean to engage in a spiritual reading of the Bible? How do we read the Bible not for information

NOVEMBER 2007: INSIDE OUT These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better