Jesus Christ

Sweet Brown Songs: Everybody's Got Time for That!

I must be living under a rock, because it was only this weekend that a friend showed me the viral video on YouTube of a woman named Sweet Brown. She escaped an apartment fire and gave an interview to Oklahoma City's KFOR News Channel. With all the charisma of a preacher, she retold her story of how ... More >>

Liberals Go Praying For Them Illegals Again

​I just got back from the South OC People's Prayer Breakfast at St. George's Episcopal Church in Laguna Hills, an alternative to pricey prayer breakfasts, the ones that are often designed to drum up support for political candidates.The free event, with roughly 50 in attendance, took the theme "Our ... More >>

On the Line: Anne Eng of Panfiniti, Part Two

​Before heading to the commissary for supplies, Anne Eng found the time to meet outside one of her favorite places, Diamond Jamboree's Lollicup. She quips about her adventures in driving the Panfiniti lonchera and how she prefers to spend her free time. While part one's answers may have a lot to c ... More >>

5 New "Christological" Crystal Cathedral Names

​While the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange is allowing Crystal Cathedral ministry to stay there for another three years before completely taking over, Bishop Tod Brown is seeking a new name now, with submissions accepted through Feb. 20 at rcbo.org/cathedral-name. Brown asks only that the name be ... More >>

Are Dueling Pro-Christian and Pro-Atheist Billboards the Reason for the Season?

​Break out the banjo, geeee-tar and Deliverance song book 'cause it's time to raise a holler over dueling billboards along the 55 freeway.On one side, hanging on a 40-foot trailer in the O'Neil Storage lot facing the 55 near Dyer Road in Santa Ana, is the billboard proclaiming, "Jesus Christ is th ... More >>

Remembering When Chuck Smith Predicted the End Times--And They Didn't Happen

​Much is being made right now about some yahoos predicting that the world will end on May 21 because Scripture says so--you know, because such predictions have never been offered in the history of humanity. You can see their billboards around the county, with an added ad to listen to some radio st ... More >>

Christian Acts Back at Verizon Amphitheatre for Fishfest

​Who says Christians don't have fun? Sure, the price you pay for having too much fun is an eternity in the lake of fire, but there'll be plenty of time for that later. For now Christians can edify their God and shake their booty simultaneously (and piously of course) courtesy of area radio station ... More >>

Soundgarden to Release First Live Album in March

​​Since the group's reunion in 2010, longtime fans of Soundgarden have clamored for new material from grunge's prodigal sons. Guitarist Kim Thayil won't rule out a new studio album, but the Seattle heroes seem to be concentrating on putting out selections from their deep vault of music from thei ... More >>

Priest Blesses Surf City Waves Sunday

​One day at band camp, this kid was shredding at Bolsa Chica when he slipped off his board and yelled, "Jesus Christ." So, it is not without precedence that a priest from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange will wade into the waters near Huntington Beach Pier Sunday morning to bless the waves.

The Nutritional Content of Holy Communion

vshioshvili @ flickr.com CC BY-SA 2.0​It's the time of the year when people examine their eating habits. Every morsel that goes into one's mouth is scrutinized for its caloric content in hopes that reducing food intake a little bit will result in the body of your dreams. The one thing many people ... More >>

How Much Do These Plays Make You Feel Like the 12 Days of Christmas Are More Like 12 Weeks?

vshioshvili @ flickr.com CC BY-SA 2.0​It's the time of the year when people examine their eating habits. Every morsel that goes into one's mouth is scrutinized for its caloric content in hopes that reducing food intake a little bit will result in the body of your dreams. The one thing many people ... More >>

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

vshioshvili @ flickr.com CC BY-SA 2.0​It's the time of the year when people examine their eating habits. Every morsel that goes into one's mouth is scrutinized for its caloric content in hopes that reducing food intake a little bit will result in the body of your dreams. The one thing many people ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

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 ... More >>

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 wa ... More >>

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

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 wa ... More >>

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

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 wa ... More >>

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 excit ... More >>

Heavenly Dancer

Jesus Christ Superstar

In Excess Deo

The Glory of Christmas

Mary Don't You Weep

Salvation in Rock Harbor's Magdalene

County Life

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

You're On With Jesus

Neil Saavedra brings God down to Earth

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 ... More >>

Dong? Schlong? Peter? Pecker? Wiener?

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Juliet of the Spirits

Jesus Kills

The end of the world is coming, and some OC Christians cant wait

The Wrath of Chuck

The end of the world is coming, and some OC Christians cant wait

Why We Fall

Getting healed with Jee-sus and Gospel Duck at the Anaheim Convention Center

'Never Allow Such Degradations to Ever Reoccur Ever'

Getting healed with Jee-sus and Gospel Duck at the Anaheim Convention Center

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.

Honk if You Love Mickey . . . and Marilyn!

Guerrilla artist tries to get bigger than his billboards in The Art and Crimes of Ron English

Get Your Geek On

NBFF presents movies youll be ashamed to love

Eight Days

NBFF presents movies youll be ashamed to love

Sex with Parrots and Other Jokes

A Day At The Pond With Americas Top Motivatorsand Jerry Lewis

Hypocritic Oath

A Day At The Pond With Americas Top Motivatorsand Jerry Lewis

Mel Gibsons Christ Complex

Is The Passion of Christ an autobiopic?

Deadly Plants

Is The Passion of Christ an autobiopic?

Jesus Christ On a Bike!

Jesus Christ Superstar at La Mirada Theatre

Ball Busting

And does anyone pray to the Lord of the Dance?

The Year in Bits: January- June

And does anyone pray to the Lord of the Dance?

Year in Review

And does anyone pray to the Lord of the Dance?

Year in Review

And does anyone pray to the Lord of the Dance?

Behold the Stoner

Behold lots of them at the Cypress Hill smoke out

Tickle Me, Elmo

Behold lots of them at the Cypress Hill smoke out

The Hysterical Jesus

Gay activists are ready for a fight over a Santa Ana production of Terrence McNallys worst play ever

Pomp & Circumstances

Five graduations! Hot students! Good vs. evil! Dave Brubeck vs. Eleanor Roosevelt! All this and a pack of Trojans!

Thou Shalt Be Rich

Selling your soul-at a profit-with TBN's divine guidance