A few days ago I realized with a shock that Advent was nearly over. I’d yet to get a tree, and I hadn’t even begun to hunt through the house for my nativity scene. I’d been so preoccupied with ...

The Rev. Joe Sloan’s Sunday lesson at Unity in the Gold Country is titled “Walking on Water.” The service is at 10:30 a.m. at Crown Point Hall, 336 Crown Point Circle, in Grass Valley. A children’s ...

The Beijing Olympics message of peace and unity was the last lesson students of Juyuan Middle School received, moments before an earthquake killed most of their schoolmates. About 900 students from ...