Eight choirs. One night. Fifteen thousand fans. Watch the singers of Oakland’s Genesis Worship Center as they take the stage in the “Best Choir in America” competition.
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April 7, 2009 – 4:46 pm
Pico Iyer, the travel writer and a decades-long acquaintance of the current Dalai Lama, has a new book about his old friend.
Ministers grapple with election’s spiritual message
November 11, 2008 – 9:41 pm
Around local houses of worship, some ministers spent the first days after the election grappling with the spiritual message to be taken from Barack Obama’s victory. Click here for the story.
And at an Oakland AME church: “Hallelujah!”
November 5, 2008 – 12:24 am
By MARTIN RICARD
Nov. 4 — When Steve Kirkendoll was 4 years old, in 1960, he remembers sitting on his mother’s lap and watching on TV as black people in the South got hosed down and bitten by police dogs just for trying to register to vote.
Kirkendall is 52 now. And after what he saw [...]
Choirs rock the house in gospel music contest
October 15, 2008 – 8:00 am
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by KRISTINE WONG and BAGASSI KOURA
Thousands of fans packed Oracle Arena to cheer on six church choirs vying for a spot in the finals of “How Sweet the Sound,” a competition for the best church choir in the country. As the choirs sung, shimmied, and swayed their way through the evening, the groundswell [...]
New cathedral opens on Lake Merritt
September 25, 2008 – 6:14 pm
By MELANIE MASON and BAGASSI KOURA
SEPT. 25 — After three years and $190 million spent, the Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland’s newest house of worship, was officially dedicated today in the presence of Cardinals, Bishops and over 1,500 East Bay residents. The dedication ceremony of a new cathedral — in which the cathedral is formally [...]