Los Angeles has always been a city that prefers reinvention to tradition, making it the ideal incubator for new religious movements. From the beginning, its distance from the centers of institutional ...

On January 1, 1923, at 2:15 p.m., Aimee Semple McPherson opened the 5,300 seat Angelus Temple to the public. Thousands of people streamed into the domed concrete building across from Los Angeles' Echo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aimee Semple McPherson being carried on the shoulders of admirers on her return to Los Angeles after a 36-day disappearance. - ...

To the editor: Thanks to Patt Morrison for her beautifully written piece on the landmarks of Los Angeles that turn 100 this year, including Angelus Temple. My paternal grandparents, poor and ...

Lights burned all night last week in the decorative Malibu Beach cottage of soul-saving Aimee Semple McPherson. In Los Angeles, 15 mi. away, squads of the faithful—praying in two-hour shifts—sent ...

When Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton learned last summer that her plump new husband, David Hutton, had lost a $5,000 breach of promise suit to a Pasadena nurse, she swooned, fell, cracked her skull ...

They say that showing up is half the battle, but when it comes to our civic defeats and success, it all comes down to parking. People want to gather en masse, but they want to travel alone or in very ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The Dream Center, the nonprofit of the Pentecostal megachurch Angelus Temple, doesn’t appear to plan on stopping. LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Just over a month after the Dream Center began ...

Many citizens of Redlands are looking forward with keen anticipation of the forthcoming visit of Aimee Semple McPherson, on the evening of July 13, at 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. McPherson is the pastor of the ...

The following is an excerpt from Gary Krist’s book The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles, which details the lives of three people who shaped Los Angeles: William ...

To the editor: Thanks to Patt Morrison for her beautifully written piece on the landmarks of Los Angeles that turn 100 this year, including Angelus Temple. My paternal grandparents, poor and ...