FROM A PRESS RELEASE
Downtown Church More Accessible with Sign Language Translation
First Congregational Church, one of Long Beach’s oldest congregations, is now fully accessible for the deaf and hearing impaired. While hearing devises have long been available, an American Sign Language Interpreter is now providing translation at the Sunday morning services.
Melanie Riecke Hiller, who [...]

The intertubes are abuzz with news of Anonymous, a hacker group who have launched an attack on the Church of Scientology. Anonymous are calling the attack Project Chanology which is “the large scale plan to bring down the Church of Scientology. On January 16, 2008; Anonymous decided to spread the message that [...]

The year in Finking
You are mad as hell, but make no mistake about it: You are most definitely going to put up with it, probably forevermore. Fact is, you’re pretty much powerless over everybody. We all are. And so, you hate. We all do. It’s our common denominator. Makes us feel closer, more connected—kind of [...]

On Monday, when Will Swaim and I first wrote about admitted child molester Michael Baker and his plea deal, we knew relatively little about his personal history: simply that he had done terrible things, that some of those things had taken place in Long Beach, and that church officials had allowed him to [...]

Note to Archdiocese: When you guys finally get around to cleaning house, you may also want to sack your PR people.
As news of the church’s $660 million payout spread, spokeswoman Carolina Guevara was quick to reassure us all that the Los Angeles Diocese will not be filing for bankruptcy. Investments and real estate [...]

Just to get some sense of how it balances out…

As reported by Will Swaim, defrocked priest Michael Stephen Baker accepted a plea deal on Monday, exchanging the grudging acknowledgment of his abuse of two boys for a prison sentence of ten years and a $20k payout to one of the victims.
We’ve all grown accustomed to [...]