Category Archives: SCV Religion

COC bumps salaries, City chastised by nuns, and Lancaster allows prayer

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Jeff

A trio of interesting stories this morning from the local government/agency front. First off, College of the Canyons administrators are getting raises….$400,000 worth in fact, even as students face fee and tuition hikes for classes next year and the college … Continue reading →

Posted in City Hall, SCV Religion | 90 Comments

Of Street Preachers and Newhall religion

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Jeff

Meet Jose. Jose is one of those rare sights in the Santa Clarita Valley: an authentic street preacher. Yes, Santa Clarita may be one of the most churched-out communities in the nation (just browse the CHU section of the phone … Continue reading →

Posted in SCV Religion, Shameless Newhall Boosterism | 8 Comments

Blog Fights!

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Jeff

Remember Dave Bossert’s post last week in which he trashed Old Town Newhall Redevelopment? Now, as I turned onto San Fernando Road and started heading south a few blocks to the Bike Shop there was a strangeness to the area. … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, SCV Religion | 7 Comments

Someone didn’t get the memo

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Jeff

Someone at KHTS didn’t get the memo that the Dunamis Group’s 6th Annual Mayors Prayer Breakfast is supposed to be a barely-religious ceremony in which community leaders and dignitaries gather round a stack of flapjacks and pray -in a lowest … Continue reading →

Posted in SCV Religion | 40 Comments

Catholic Newspaper condemns Signal coverage

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Jeff

The Tidings, the Catholics newspaper for the Los Angeles Archdiocese is calling for an apology from The Signal for its recent story about Monsignor Martini, the new pastor at OLPH: Every person deserves the right to his or her good … Continue reading →

Posted in Media, Opinion, SCV Religion | 9 Comments

A Prayer for Santa Clarita

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Jeff

The 6th Annual Mayors Prayer Breakfast is coming up, and along with the annual “Guess who the mystery speaker is” contest, this year the theme of the breakfast is “Prayer, for a time such as this.” Now in the past … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, SCV Religion | 32 Comments

Holy Week in Santa Clarita

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Jeff

On my bike ride yesterday, I must have passed eight different churches while services were ending. At OLPH, Mass was so crowded that people were standing out on Lyons Ave with their Palm fronds. At Placerita Baptist, they were socializing … Continue reading →

Posted in SCV Religion | 42 Comments

Abortion protest in Newhall

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Jeff

Santa Clarita is a pretty homogenous place. We don’t see a lot of protests around here except during campaign season. That’s what made it surprising to me to see about 50-100 people lined up at all four corners of Lyons … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, Politics, SCV Religion | 19 Comments

The best church in town

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Jeff

Open up the yellow pages to the “chu” section and prepare to be Gobsmacked. Santa Clarita has tons and tons and tons of churches. Mega churches occupying hilltops. Teeny-tiny churches that want to grow up into mega churches but meet in … Continue reading →

Posted in Misc., SCV Religion | 3 Comments