Body And Soul

David J. Earle As a Christian, it is personally important to me to incorporate Christ's chief works of corporal mercy into my life: Feed the hungry. Give drink to the thirsty. Clothe the naked. Shelter the homeless. Visit the sick. Visit the imprisoned. Bury the dead. While there are biblical passages that can be quoted to support each and every one of these mandates, these mandates are not unique to Christianity. Most faith-based world views recognize the importance of reaching out to society's most disenfranchised.

Jenna Bordelon DOWNTOWN -- Many people must walk miles every day in a search for food and water. On Sunday, Glendale residents will get a chance to show their support for the fight against hunger at the fifth annual CROP Walk. The Communities Reaching Out to People Walk has raised more than $49,000 in the past four years. Last year, 114 walkers raised $15,930. Sponsor envelopes may be obtained from 24 different churches and organizations, or you can register the day of the walk.

Amber Willard GLENDALE -- Sunglasses and hats shaded 212 walkers from Sunday's afternoon sun as they participated in the fifth annual Glendale CROP Walk. More than 30 churches, temples and other organizations participated in the 5K walk, which started at 1:30 p.m. at Church of the Incarnation and ended at North Glendale Methodist Church. Twenty-five percent of the more than $17,000 raised will go to Glendale charities to help low-income families.

GLENDALE — A Thanksgiving feast of turkey, potatoes, rice, pita bread and salad helped fill the stomachs of those in need Thursday at Holy Family Catholic Church. "Welcome, everyone, to the Lord's Kitchen," said David Earle, director of the Food for Body and Soul charity. The charity runs the Lord's Kitchen, which served 38 people on disability or who are living on the streets. Ron Fulghum and Harlan Nelms arrived on Tuesday to enjoy the meal. "We live day to day and try to get back on our feet," Nelms said.

Christmas breakfast for the homeless scheduled for Sunday morning.GLENDALE -- Two local groups are helping to provide the city's needy with a decent meal this Christmas, each in their own unique way. Food for Body and Soul, which has run the Lord's Kitchen feeding program for the homeless since taking it over from the Salvation Army Glendale Corps in September, plans a full breakfast spread with scrambled eggs, sausage and pancakes for Christmas morning....

The First United Methodist Church of Glendale opened its doors on Christmas morning to provide sustenance instead of a sermon. Through the 13 annual Food for Body and Soul Christmas morning breakfast, more than 60 homeless and less advantaged residents from Glendale, Burbank and nearby cities got a full meal in the church?s cafeteria. Food for Body and Soul is a 13-year-old nonprofit program that provides Sunday lunch and then a sermon to those in need. The church also operates The Lord?

Paul Andersen, Weekend GLENDALE -- It sits on a mound in a swirl of freeway ramps, a low-slung, woodsy fauna-inflected bastion of seafood, at the true junction of the Ventura (134) and Glendale (2) freeways. It might not seem at first glance to be a hot night spot, but for much of the past year the Rusty Pelican has been steadily gaining a reputation as a great place to hear live jazz on weekend nights, thanks to the superlative sounds of 2AZZ1 and the Body and Soul Band and the Eric Byak Band.

Barack Obama has been picked as the next president. Propositions have been approved or turned down. How can faith guide us in making decisions on future Election Days? While we talk about separation of church and state, I do think that our faith can play a part in helping us make good decisions in our election day choices. We should choose from our heart, from a place of love, compassion, justice and righteousness, seeking to include as many people as possible, seeking to raise up those people and initiatives that will better our nation, state and communities.

Janine Marnien While some local religious leaders believe human cloning could provide advancements in health research, others fear the concept allows human beings to play God. Las Vegas-based company Clonaid claims it created the first human baby clone in December, and plans to create five more by Feb. 5. It is a claim Rabbi Jonathan Biatch of Temple Sinai of Glendale and others fear involves experimenting with...

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the dancers of Karavan Dance Studio are collaborating with the Los Angeles Ballet Theatre, Israel National Ballet, National Ballet of Armenia and Burbank's Creations Dance Theatre in a show featuring nearly 100 dancers. Some are as young as 3 years old, under artistic director Edgar Nikolian, who also started dancing as a child. Nikolian's first dance teacher was his father, Rouben Nikolian, who founded the dance studio. The elder Nikolian fathered two sons, raised them in Yerevan, Armenia, and taught them dance despite initial resistance.

Longtime friends Sam McFarlin and Corey Swartout have attended many free holiday meals. But none have been quite like the Thanksgiving feast they attended Thursday afternoon. “It is so well planned and laid out and looks like they have enough food for everyone,” McFarlin said. “I can feel they really put their heart and body and soul into preparing it.” The friends, who came from Echo Park, were some of more than 150 people who filled Salem Lutheran Church and School’s gymnasium Thursday for a free, warm Thanksgiving meal.

Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center Speaker for Israel Independence Day Dan Gordon, Hollywood screen writer, producer, director and playwright will speak at Pasadena Temple and Jewish Center in honor of Israel Independence Day at 7:30 p.m. April 30. The topic is “What Really Happened in Gaza.” Gordon is an Israeli and American citizen who served as an official observer in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. Following the talk, there will be a question and answer session and a dessert reception.

St. James the Less Catholic School began its celebration of Catholic Schools Week on Jan. 25 with a special 11:30 a.m. liturgy and an open house of the school grounds where parents were able to meet with teachers and visit their children’s classrooms. Catholic Schools Week is celebrated on the last Sunday in January throughout the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Themed “Celebrate Service” for 2009, the event highlights the importance of Catholic schools in providing academic and religious education for children from kindergarten to 12th grade.

Barack Obama has been picked as the next president. Propositions have been approved or turned down. How can faith guide us in making decisions on future Election Days? While we talk about separation of church and state, I do think that our faith can play a part in helping us make good decisions in our election day choices. We should choose from our heart, from a place of love, compassion, justice and righteousness, seeking to include as many people as possible, seeking to raise up those people and initiatives that will better our nation, state and communities.

Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany have reportedly warned against an exaggerated focus on health and fitness, which ministers say emphasizes fitness over compassion and stigmatizes those who don’t have an “ideal” body type. The preoccupation with external appearance and fitness is in danger of becoming a “health religion,” religious leaders say. What do you think? Is society so obsessed with these things that it’s almost a religion in itself?

The First United Methodist Church of Glendale opened its doors on Christmas morning to provide sustenance instead of a sermon. Through the 13 annual Food for Body and Soul Christmas morning breakfast, more than 60 homeless and less advantaged residents from Glendale, Burbank and nearby cities got a full meal in the church?s cafeteria. Food for Body and Soul is a 13-year-old nonprofit program that provides Sunday lunch and then a sermon to those in need. The church also operates The Lord?

W hat are your thoughts on dealing with the tragedy we saw recently at Virginia Tech? How do we make sense of the violence in this world? And how do you deal with the question of "Why?" Why did God let this happen? We live in a magnificent, yet dangerous, world. As if it weren't dangerous enough, we continually tempt fate, risk our lives and toy with death. We fly supersonic, Mach-speed planes directly at one another for the crowds, taunt alligators and stingrays to get ratings, and jump off cliffs, platforms and out of aircraft with nylon sheets or rubber bands and hope we don't splat onto the ground.

GLENDALE — A Thanksgiving feast of turkey, potatoes, rice, pita bread and salad helped fill the stomachs of those in need Thursday at Holy Family Catholic Church. "Welcome, everyone, to the Lord's Kitchen," said David Earle, director of the Food for Body and Soul charity. The charity runs the Lord's Kitchen, which served 38 people on disability or who are living on the streets. Ron Fulghum and Harlan Nelms arrived on Tuesday to enjoy the meal. "We live day to day and try to get back on our feet," Nelms said.