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Worshippers depart a church service at the Crystal Cathedral megachurch in Garden Grove. Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters

January 10, 2018

How California’s megachurches changed Christian culture

Richard Flory, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

California megachurches played a significant role in how millions of people - Christian or not - understand Christianity.

Immaculate Heart College Art Department c. 1955. Photograph by Fred Swartz. Image courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles.

December 6, 2017

How a group of California nuns challenged the Catholic Church

Diane Winston, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

In the '60s, a Roman Catholic religious order, the Immaculate Heart Sisters, created a new vision of a religious community. Meghan Markle, engaged to Prince Harry, attended the high school founded by the nuns.

A crowd at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco celebrates day one of the ‘Summer of Love.’ AP Photo

September 15, 2017

‘Jesus People’ – a movement born from the ‘Summer of Love’

Larry Eskridge, Wheaton College (Illinois)

As the Summer of Love ran into a number of problems, a new set of hippie 'Jesus freak' evangelists appeared in the Bay Area.

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Richard Flory
Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Diane Winston
Associate Professor and Knight Center Chair in Media & Religion, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Larry Eskridge
Instructor in HIstory, Wheaton College (Illinois)

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