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Print ArticleReverend Billy and the Shopocalypse Comes to Long Beach!
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| Revolujah! |
With prosperity gospel preachers running amok, activist Bill Talen, better known as Reverend Billy, has spread the good news of life after shopping. For almost 15 years, no dark lair of crass consumerism has been safe from the educational antics of his firebrand-style of guerrilla street theater performance art.
His New York-based Church of Stop Shopping has grown over the years to include a gospel choir that sings as Reverend Billy exorcises cash registers. On one of his last visits to Orange County, the preacher came to Disneyland on Christmas Day in 2005. Singing anti-Disney songs with his choir along Main Street U.S.A., Reverend Billy was arrested by an on-site Anaheim police officer.
The scene was the culmination of Morgan Spurlock's What Would Jesus Buy? documentary on the church.
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His New York-based Church of Stop Shopping has grown over the years to include a gospel choir that sings as Reverend Billy exorcises cash registers. On one of his last visits to Orange County, the preacher came to Disneyland on Christmas Day in 2005. Singing anti-Disney songs with his choir along Main Street U.S.A., Reverend Billy was arrested by an on-site Anaheim police officer.
The scene was the culmination of Morgan Spurlock's What Would Jesus Buy? documentary on the church.
Alex Grenier, Frequent Calvary Chapel Critic, Seeks to Have Defamation Lawsuit Filed by His Pastor Father Dismissed
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| Alex and Bob, in (seemingly) happier times |
Alex made a public plea on his blog for legal help, and he got it in a big way in the form of the California Anti-SLAPP Project, the angels who helped to create the state's legendary Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) law, which intimidates public figures from suing critics just because they can. That's the stance Alex is taking against his dad: that Bob is suing solely to shut him up.
Calvary Chapel Gets Smackdown From The Daily Beast
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Reporter David Sessions used the recent, tragic murder of a Calvary Chapel pastor and his family in Albuquerque by his teenage son to delve into the problems Weekly readers know too well.
Meet the "Irvine 11" Appellate Case, Same as the "Irvine 11" Superior Court Case
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Black Family's Plight Prompts Church and OC Human Relations to Host "Listening Session"
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He'd shared an email about a "Listening Session" being held at an African American church in Yorba Linda Sunday in light of November's revelation about racism a black family says drove them out of the city.
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Luis and Rocio Garcia, Former Prominent OC Scientologists, Sue Scientology for Fraud Over Donations
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You might remember the couple from 2011, when the St. Petersburg Times revealed they had donated more than a million dollars over the years to the Church of Scientology, only to repudiate the current hierarchy under David Miscavige. Now, they're suing in federal court in Florida, alleging that Scientology leaders committed fraud with about $400,000 of their donations.
Malcolm X Shares the Spotlight with Martin Luther King Jr. at UC Irvine Tonight
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| X marks the zot. |
But as UC Irvine celebrates King with events through Jan. 31, it is the legacy of another slain civil rights leader that will be explored this evening in UCI's Student Center. Because while King saw an America where a black man could rise to become president, Malcolm X saw firsthand the flip-side reality of fears of blacks, Islam and Muslims.
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Newsong's Dave Gibbons: Helping Illegal Immigrants and Working Toward Amnesty "Serving Jesus Himself"
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WHOA...even a Mechista won't say that!
God in America Visits OC
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The nonprofit Americans United for Separation of Church and State's Orange County chapter shows the "Of God and Caesar" episode of the PBS God in America series at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Irvine Ranch Water District Community Room.
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