[I wanted to get this up before going to bed--if you read this note, there's a good chance that I will add pictures and links on Easter Sunday or on Monday.] I lost my wallet this week. Yesterday, Jana dropped me off at the DMV in Costa Mesa to get a replacement license. I was [...]

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Yesterday was my second day back to church (my own home church, the local LDS ward) in three months. Now that I think about it, “I went back to church” is kind of an odd thing to say, considering that I‚Äôve been aggressively visiting a variety of churches for the past few months. Overall, it [...]

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I rode the train to downtown Los Angeles last week. East-coasters will think this natural; Angelinos will wonder why I didn’t drive (one answer: cheaper than parking in LA). My purpose: a triple pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the old central branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, and the [...]

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Christ Our Redeemer African Methodist Episcopal Church meets in the Social Science Lecture Hall at UCI. So far, my pilgrimage has taken me to varied locales in Orange County and Long Beach, but it’s funny to think that the most memorable experience awaited me just minutes away. My daughter (E.) and I put on our [...]

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I started working on a Google Map to chart the progress of my pilgrimage. It’s still rough, but it’s cool because you can click/drag it and zoom and see satellite overlays and click on the individual icons to get links to the pilgrimage posts. Eventually I’ll label each of the stations and place a permanent [...]

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Station #05 on the OC Pilgrimage was the Temple Israel Long Beach. “Waitaminute,” you say, “Long Beach isn’t in Orange County!” And you’re absolutely right. Long Beach really should be its own county. I can’t afford to not write about my first experience with a Jewish service. My OC Pilgrimage just put on a few [...]

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It’s late, and I’ve still got lots of reading to do, so I’m just going to post a couple of links tonight (but they are worthy links!): Rolling Stone has an expos?© on the Church of Scientology. NBC and CBS refused to run a commercial for the United Church of Christ because it was too [...]

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I was privileged to witness history in the making yesterday. True, it wasn’t history on a grand scale, but it was a watershed event in the life of the Irvine United Congregational Church (IUCC for short) as they welcomed their new pastor and his partner of twenty years into their church family. I’ve visited the [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, our whole family decided to check out the Trinity Broadcasting Network headquarters. TBN is hard to miss–it stares across the 405 freeway at South Coast Plaza, and at Christmastime is lit up brighter than Vegas. I’m including our visit in my pilgrimage because it is an important Orange County religious [...]

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If you’re new to this topic, read the other posts in the OC Pilgrimage category. Liberal Quakerism is in many ways the antithesis of modern Mormonism, which is probably why I like to escape to the local Meeting on occasion. Jana shares some of my sentiments‚Äîshe‚Äôs said many times that if she weren‚Äôt born into [...]

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