On Tuesday, I attended a lecture at UC Irvine Medical Center called “Spirituality and Suicide Prevention.” The speaker was a psychiatrist named Aaron Kheriaty. Dr. Kheriaty is the director of UC Irvine’s unique Psychiatry and Spirituality Forum. As… Read More
I didn’t know the following bit of history when I attended a lecture this week at USC’s Doheny Library: “In 1892, Edward Laurence Doheny Sr. struck oil in Los Angeles, setting off a major land boom. The Dohenys… Read More
This week the United States announced new sanctions against Iran. Coincidentally, I attended a lecture at the USC Anneberg School for Communication on Tuesday about Public Diplomacy and, specifically, nuclear proliferation re. Iran. The speaker was James Kelman, senior public diplomacy… Read More
by Vinnie DiPasquale with Bonnie Compton Hanson “Aw, Come on fellows,” I begged. “After all, it was my dough!” The other guys—their arms pocked with needle marks—shook their heads. “Naw, Vin,” they protested dreamily, “you don’t wanta get hooked.”… Read More
Below is a link to an article called “The Cross Carriers” from the May/June 1963 issue of Faith at Work magazine. The article is about my father, Vinnie DiPasquale, and some of his friends, including Harv Oostdyk and Bill Milliken (the author). Together they… Read More
Kathryn Jean Lopez: http://www.nationalreview.com/lopez/lopez200603211638.asp Christine A. Scheller: [Orange County Register, April 2006] Responding to my Christianity Today article, “A Delicate Hospitality,” Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote that the attitude I encountered at a meeting of Hispanic evangelical pastors in… Read More
Dallas Willard is on a quiet quest to subvert nominal Christianity. It’s the first week of class at the University of Southern California, and a young woman named Sarah is standing on a soapbox in Hahn Plaza giving… Read More
How Hispanic Churches in Southern California negotiate the dilemmas of ministry with undocumented immigrants. When he was 19, an associate pastor of one Southern California church came to the United States illegally from El Salvador. Although he has been… Read More
