Subject: Jesus Christ

• Where's Loretta?

  Rebecca Schoenkopf reporting from . . . ORANGE, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 441--The beer is Heineken, the food Mexican, the lights fluorescent. A couple hundred people, very happy--and sitting. Sitting. And we're young. And so, thinking Loretta Sanchez's invite-only party is likely to be a bit more fun, we're planning to go over there in a bit. But Norberto Santana of the Register appears to tell us that L's party is a dud. Could be the invite-only thing. Could be the

  November 7, 2006

• Dead Pope, Baby Buddha, and Plenty of Firepower

  Has it only been a year since TV news went All Dead Pope, All The Time? Apparently so– April 8 marks the first anniversary of Pope John Paul II's funeral. Interestingly enough, April 8 is also when many in East Asia (particularly in Japan) celebrate the birthday of the Buddha, who, of course, had a rather different view on birth, death and what happens in between than the pope. Given this coincidence, which piles even more otherworldly significance onto the generally looming holiness of

  April 8, 2006

• Who Would Jesus Discriminate Against?

  Although it lacks the economic punch of Christmas, Easter is, in theory, the biggest of Christian holidays. "[A]nd if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." according to Paul (1 Corinthians 15:14), whose opinion on the matter commands a certain respect. So how to show respect for the message of Jesus Christ in this Easter season? Eggs? Naturally, but not quite enough. Have children roll the eggs? Better, but there's still room for improvement. Have childr

  April 17, 2006

• The Mark of The Beast

  The Beast, the alt paper that howls at the world from the wintry, chicken wing-splattered wasteland that is Buffalo, now has the 2006 version of its always entertaining 50 Most Loathsome People in America online. The list of the loathsome features those you might expect (Bush, James Dobson, Ryan Seacrest), some you might not (Jesus Christ), and you. Yes, you. Congratulations-- first you were Time's Person of the Year (or as The Beast puts it: "You're Time magazine's person of the year. So wa

  January 22, 2007

• An Open Letter to Mater Dei Quarterback Matt Barkley

  Dear Matt, Congrats on all your success: Gatorade High School Football, Player of the Year (first junior so honored ever), the early commitment to USC, the many prep titles—oops, scratch that last one! And we loved the profile that the New York Times did on you yesterday. We especially were excited about your commitment to Jesus Christ, “Jesus Christ is No. 1 to me,” you told the Times. “That’s who I play for.” Heaven knows this world needs more upstanding young athletes like you.

  February 12, 2008

• The Hysterical Jesus

  November 18, 1999

• Behold the Stoner

  October 12, 2000

• The Year in Bits: January- June

  January 4, 2001

• Year in Review

  January 4, 2001

• Jesus Christ On a Bike!

  November 14, 2002

• What Mariners Church Teaches About Homosexuality Vs. What Jesus Teaches

  In doing my cover story last week about the schism between Mariners Church pastor Kenton Beshore and his former right-hand man, Bob Gunn, over Gunn's homosexuality, I visited the Irvine congregation's bookstore. Books and books and books about Christianity, along with CDs, Bibles, and a cafe that was closed on the evening I went. I was interested to see what Beshore allowed in his bookstore in regards to homosexuality, but found only one piece of literature that specifically addressed the issue:

  December 24, 2008

• Former O.C. Bishop Lies Like a Devil in Fresno Pedophile Case

  Yesterday, a Fresno jury acquitted the Catholic Diocese of Fresno of culpability in the priestly rapes of innocents, and does this news really surprise you given Fresno is Fresno? We really can't expect much intellectually and morally of this town, given its head padre is Bishop John Steinbock, former auxiliary bishop of the Orange diocese. On the witness stand, news accounts quote Steinbock as saying, "I never have returned anyone to ministry that I believe was guilty of sex abuse."HAHAHAHAHA!

  April 4, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  March 5, 2009

• Crystal Cathedral's 'Glory of Christmas' Delivers Baby Jesus, Flying Angels and Camel Poop

  December 18, 2008

• Erik Ruhling's Book 'Infernal Device: Machinery of Torture and Execution' Brings the Pain

  March 13, 2008

• Heavenly Dancer

  January 10, 2008

• In Excess Deo

  December 6, 2007

• Mary Don't You Weep

  Salvation in Rock Harbor's Magdalene

  October 18, 2007

• County Life

  People, places, politicos, lawmen, muckrakers, card sharps, & other assorted scalawags & neer-do-wells, plus tall tales & ghost stories.

  September 20, 2007

• Letters

  In the first place, I am a pimply-faced septuagenarian male, aging ungracefully, with an unquenchable thirst for comic books about hell on earth.

  April 21, 2005

• White Trash, Dark Side

  Amy Louise Sebelius warns us all about the quick and easy path

  June 14, 2007

• Letters

  'And when I say "you," I am referring to white America. I purposely left that "white" uncapitalized'

  April 26, 2007

• You're On With Jesus

  Neil Saavedra brings God down to Earth

  March 22, 2007

• Commie Girl

  Clown On Their Fingers and Clown On Their Toes: And we shall have music wherever we go

  December 21, 2006

• Dong? Schlong? Peter? Pecker? Wiener?

  May 18, 2006

• Special Screenings

  March 23, 2006

• Jesus Kills

  February 23, 2006

• Ordinary Girl

  September 1, 2005

• The Wrath of Chuck

  August 11, 2005

• Why We Fall

  August 11, 2005

• 'Never Allow Such Degradations to Ever Reoccur Ever'

  June 30, 2005

• POPE-TACULAR!!!

  April 21, 2005

• Honk if You Love Mickey . . . and Marilyn!

  April 14, 2005

• Get Your Geek On

  April 14, 2005

• A Moral, Abject Failure When It Mattered

  April 7, 2005

• Eight Days

  December 23, 2004

• Sex with Parrots and Other Jokes

  November 25, 2004

• Eight Days

  September 16, 2004

• Hypocritic Oath

  January 29, 2004

• Mel Gibsons Christ Complex

  November 13, 2003

• Deadly Plants

  February 27, 2003

• Ball Busting

  May 10, 2001

• Year in Review

  January 4, 2001

• Tickle Me, Elmo

  February 24, 2000

• Notes on a Bloodstained Band Flier

  December 2, 1999

• Pomp & Circumstances

  July 8, 1999

• Thou Shalt Be Rich

  March 5, 1998

• Muslims and Christians Talk Jesus at Interfaith Event

  Hot on the heels of President Obama's speech in Cairo, where he quoted from the Bible, the Koran and the Talmud, the Islamic Institute of Orange County hosts an interfaith discussion Sunday about the role and status of Jesus Christ in the Muslim and Christian faiths. "The Path of the Shepherd: Jesus in Christianity and Islam" will be led by Rector Reese Riley of St. Paul Episcopal Church in Tustin and Sheikh Junaid Kharsany of Inglewood Masjid. According to the institute, their "friendly discuss

  June 5, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Proving Pendejo Know Nothings Wrong—Again!

  July 9, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] If You Have to Ask if You're a Gabacho . . .

  August 20, 2009