Deborah Netburn covers faith, spirituality and joy for the Los Angeles Times. She started at The Times in 2006 and has worked across a wide range of sections including entertainment, home and garden, national news, technology and science. She’s hung out with Tibetan monks in the Pacific Palisades, seen seahorses at the bottom of Alamitos Bay and spent time with the working witches of Los Angeles. She is always looking for a good story.
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For the Los Angeles Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, it’s about comforting those in need, Pride award or not. After the Dodgers tumult, the drag nuns reflect on their ministry.
Jeffrey Roberts of Long Beach drove to Utah, shot and killed his brother, set his house ablaze, and then died in a shootout with police, officials said.
Walking labyrinths with facilitator Katie Bull, L.A.’s World Labyrinth Day coordinator.
The first woman to practice the ancient Iranian art of epic storytelling, Gordafarid inspires the Iranian diaspora as women fight for their rights back home.
The region averages one to two tornadoes a year, but the twister that hit Montebello this week was the Los Angeles area’s strongest since 1983.
Animal rescue teams in San Bernardino save 17 large animals, including cows, bulls and horses, from the sticky mud.
The National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday that a tornado was responsible for tearing the roof from a building in Montebello.
Dominican nuns and friars say they are committed to maintaining nuns’ legacy at Hollywood’s Monastery of the Angels.
Pope Francis, whose leadership of the Roman Catholic Church has resonated with many Californians, celebrates his 10th anniversary as pope on March 13.
Bishop David G. O’Connell, the beloved Los Angeles cleric who was shot to death in his bed last month, is eulogized at a funeral Mass attended by thousands.