John Calvin

Book review: 'When I Was a Child I Read Books' by Marilynne Robinson

2012-07-01 00:00:00

-------------------- When I Was a Child I Read Books Essays Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 232 pp., $24 -------------------- Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer-winning novelist, is a confounding writer in today's political alignment. Her...

The Siren's Call: Killing Copernicus

2010-07-11 00:00:00

When is an apple more than an apple? When it's resting in Eve's palm – or better yet, in the hands of the storyteller(s) of Genesis. The same happens to other objects touched by myth: Fire, for instance, has Genesis-sized significance in the...

Jane Russell dies at 89; screen siren had sensational debut in 'The Outlaw'

2011-02-28 20:30:00

Jane Russell, the dark-haired siren whose sensational debut in the 1943 film "The Outlaw" inspired producer Howard Hughes to challenge the power and strict morality of Hollywood's production code, died Monday at her home in Santa Maria, Calif. She was 89....

God's dupes

2007-03-15 00:00:00

PETE STARK, a California Democrat, appears to be the first congressman in U.S. history to acknowledge that he doesn't believe in God. In a country in which 83% of the population thinks that the Bible is the literal or "inspired" word of the creator of the...

Culture warriors and the Anglican Church

2008-08-20 00:00:00

In its editorial following the Anglican Communion's recent decennial Lambeth Conference, The Times makes a statement that needs a little parsing. In our culture, it is easy to adopt the "culture war" language. In fact, it is often encouraged. In this...

Graceful '20s homes wrapped in foothills

2004-03-14 00:00:00

A brochure circulated by developers in the 1920s describes Glendale's Rossmoyne neighborhood as "within minutes of downtown Los Angeles � yet it might be another world." Current residents probably would agree. The uniformity of the architecture, mature...

Be still for once, or: A teachable moment -- really?

2012-07-25 21:55:07

Turn the dial this way and that, and it's all the same -- the same separate but equal banalities you hear after every one of these dreadful things, this time even before all the dead in Aurora, Colo., have been given a decent burial: "... the solution...

William C. Meyers, 83

2012-05-03 16:03:00

William C. Meyers of Hondo, Texas, was born in Hagerstown, Md., on Nov. 15, 1928. He passed away April 27, 2012, in San Antonio at the age of 83. He was raised on the family farm at the edge of Hagerstown, where he attended Antietam Street School and...

Auto dealer gave back to community

2011-06-09 14:39:00

Don Packer, who owned a car dealership on Brand Boulevard for many years, was well known not just for his cars, but for his philanthropy. “He was an icon around Glendale,” said Jarrett Anderson, who was associated with him professionally...

John Calvin "Jack" Hauger, 91, of Somerset

2012-04-09 20:54:00

John Calvin “Jack” Hauger, 91, of Somerset, died April 9, 2012, at Somerset Hospital, Somerset. Born March 27, 1921, in Garrett, son of John Calvin “Cal” and Bertha Mae (Wagner) Hauger. Preceded in death by parents, sister Patty...

Court listings: March 26

2012-03-26 01:05:28

Kyle Thomas Cabral, 20, of NSU Jerde Hall, No. 453, ingesting intoxicant other than alcoholic beverage, fined $285 and sentenced to 60 days in jail with 55 days suspended. Cory John Feist, 31, Groton, DUI, first offense, fined $510 and sentenced to 60...

Church mislabels Antichrist

2011-08-21 01:05:40

�Saturday: The True Lord's Day. Changed by ANTICHRIST. Daniel 7:25. Avoid His Mark.� So reads a billboard in Aberdeen. Curious about this message, I called the number on the billboard and received the pamphlet, �The Antichrist Identified,� from the...

A worker climbs up scaffolding in front of the Reformation Wall in Geneva. Preparations are underway commemorate the 500th anniversary of John Calvin's birth on July 10. Calvin was a principal figure in the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism.

2009-06-10 00:00:00

A photograph taken by John Calvin Brewster around 1890 shows the Plaza School on Santa Clara Street in downtown Ventura. The prolific Brewster made portraits not only of the day s dandies but of ordinary folks, big events and landscapes.

2007-07-11 00:00:00

Jennifer Maxson, associate librarian at the Museum of Ventura County, holds up a glass-plate negative that is part of the collection of photos taken by John Calvin Brewster between 1874 and 1909. They re a resource for researchers, genealogists and history buffs.

2007-07-11 00:00:00