I've been following the stories about my husband, Adam, and the little bear he saved, and have been pleasantly surprised to see the numerous, kind comments posted online. It's awesome when something little can have a big impact, and Li'l Smokey has certainly done that. Race, religion, political party -- not one

• Eckankar service set • Messianic minister to speak • Church plans barbecue event • Speaker to discuss 'Urantia Book' • School Daze' to be held at church • Humanism is topic at meeting • 'Dinosaur' Bible school scheduled • '60s-themed event includes love music

• Church offers Bible school • Summer potluck planned at church • Hunger walk meeting set • Baptists to host Bible school • Multicultural event slated

• Group plans event at Yaks • Local churches to have a B.L.A.S.T.' • Unitarians plan picnic potluck • Bible school slated at school • Gospel concert date arranged • Film explores oil industry • Author's message to be broadcast

At my age I get asked frequently where I’m going, what my plans are, and what I want out of life. I admit, at my age it’s a good way to make small talk, because I do it to my peers just as well. We are all expected to have goals and plans. My response to these questions is often centered on the answers you’d expect

The more I read (and I admittedly read very little) it becomes more and more evident that the one thing thinkers both religious and non-religious are searching for is truth. Truth is the reigning scale to the mind, and it’s pretty universal in its impact on life. The debate comes into play over what actually is true.

• Eckankar service set • Humanists plan women's talk

I looked at more terrible YouTube videos this morning than you can possib1y imagine, looking for something to post for July 4. The Independence Day-themed videos tended to fall into one of several categories: twee, bad/no editing, bad sound/visual quality, or wretched content/music. So, no video.But I found this

Pat Wilkinson (letter, Friday), you obviously do not understand the first sentence of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

When I saw Fish wearing a tie and tearing duct tape with his teeth, I knew this was a wedding to remember. While standing in a shaded part of Chico’s lower Bidwell Park in late May, surrounded by friends and family, two of my friends, Roy and Shelley, got married. Shelley wore white. Roy did,

I wrote an email to an old friend of mine the other day. In his response, among the other things he brought up (including how he and I are the only one's we know who aren't married, dating, or almost married) he brought up a set of short films by Rob Bell and Nooma. Please check out www.nooma.com to see their site.

• Church hosts gospel service • Fellowship plans first service Sunday • Episcopalians to hold taize service • Mission lunch scheduled • Pastor announces her retirement

• Adventists to host chorale • Group Shantala to perform at church • Monthly Eckankar service scheduled

I can already feel that this may become one of my more transparent writings, and yet even while I say this I doubt if anyone will ever really read this. But in that doubt I find what I’ve been struggling with recently-- what is real? What do we rely on to determine our reality?On the one hand, the realist, m

One of the challenges of marriage is balancing individuality with togetherness. Spouses in a healthy marriage don’t give up their own personality, interests, and opinions when they say “I do.” But joining y

Eckankar service offered

We weren't joking, precisely, in today's editorial, but when we said the Westboro Baptist Church must be an "atheist cabal" trying to discredit religion, it was definitely an ironic rhetorical device. Sigh, many of the commenters missed the point. Perhaps...

I guess the real question in my mind right now is what is the basis for a real society? What should our culture be founded on?Obviously our society was founded on principles that seemed right at the time- freedom, justice, equality. Might I be so bold as to suggest that it might not have been founded on the be

• Unitarians plan memorial • Sikh Centre festival set • Catholic workshops continue at church

"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."

• Orthodox to host Divine Liturgy • Church fundraiser benefits mission • Women's ministry group plans brunch

A few days ago I wrote a short article about the church, as described in the Vatican II document "Lume

From our Religion page: Don Piper, a best-selling author, speaker, syndicated columnist and former television executive, will give a "Hope and Healing Rally" at 7 p.m. [ ... ] Saturday at the David Marr Theatre, 2200 Eureka Way in Redding....

TRIDUUM The Three Days What is the Triduum?

Everyone knows the First Amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly. How many remember that, in addition, the First Amendment protects a fifth freedom -- to lobby?

• World prayer event set • Creation, evolution are focus of series

Just below the text there was a Google ad inviting me to take a quiz. "Christian? Jewish? Muslim? Atheist? See which Religion is Right for You."

The AP News story made it the pages of "First Amendment Center.Org." Right on! Check out the related stories on

Interesting. I wanted to comment on Marc Beauchamp's blog about the upcoming City Council races next fall. However, I'm not allowed. Apparently, I've been

How appropriate to report about religion in public places (Cottonwood's school auditorium) during Washington's birthday week. It's told that this father of our country was the one person in the Continental Congress on his knees in prayer to God while drafting our Constitution in that very public place.

During the week it's lessons on algebraic equations, grammar rules and earth science. But come Sunday morning, many north state public schools fill up with congregants looking for salvation and eager to learn more about the Sermon on the Mount, the Ten Commandments and the epistles of Paul.

The legal battle over same-sex marriage in California is also a clash of religions.

The Diocese of Sacramento will present a workshop series on he Catholic faith from 8:10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today at Our Lady of Mercy Parish, 2600 Shasta View Drive in Redding.

• Mission to hold lunch • Monthly Eckankar service scheduled • Darwin Day' to be celebrated

The Rev. Bill Stegall will present the sermon at 10 a.m. Sunday at Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2850 Foothill Blvd. in Redding. Stegall's message is titled "From Branch Rickey to Martin Luther King."

A bay area man, Bryan Noble, has had enough of the crazy Muslim outrage at everything that they believe insults their religion. In response to this news article: KHARTOUM, Sudan - A British teacher in Sudan was convicted Thursday of insulting Islam for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad, and she was sentenced to