Faith & Religion

My wife's grandmother, who will be 100 years old in June, was admitted to a nursing home last week. Yesterday, we visited her. Entering a nursing home is like diving into a cold pool. It shocks you. In the lobby, a woman lay curled in a fetal...

By Eric NelsonIn his testimony before the Senate Health Committee in 2009, Dr. Dean Ornish, founder and president of the California-based Preventative Medicine Research Institute (PMRI) and professor of medicine at University of California, San Francis...

After more than 50 years of campfires, campouts, skits and s'mores, Camp Pendola in Camptonville is moving. The Yuba County camp has been a fundamental site for Catholic youths in the Sacramento Diocese, which encompasses parishes from the southern...

Yuba City Film benefits Hands of Hope The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Yuba City is hosting two showings of the movie "Hell and Mr. Fudge," about the sometimes hilarious trials and tribulations of an evangelical scholar, at the Cinemark Theater,...

Music students from first to third grade in Yuba-Sutter are performing pieces, from baroque to classical, romantic to 20th century, at the Tri-Counties Music Competition Winners Concert at 6 p.m. Saturday at Cornerstone Church in Yuba City. They can...

With triple-digit interest rates and high fees, payday loans can put a lot of consumers in trouble. But area and national experts say a surprising number of one group of people — who sometimes might not understand how the process works — are...

By Eric NelsonFor most it probably seemed like a pretty insignificant coincidence (if anyone even noticed). For me it was proof positive of the remarkable influence for good included in human consciousness. I was sitting in a breakout session a co...

The Marysville Buddhist Church is holding an open house on Sunday to introduce two new ministers and celebrate Hanamatsuri, the Buddha's birthday. The Revs. Tim and Carol Castle were raised in the Sacramento area and have known each other since the...

The only thing that makes me feel as small as staring into space is staring out at the ocean. A thin line of sand separates my familiar, dry world from a wet infinity of churning waves. The shoreline is a battle line, and the sound of war is...

Yuba City St. Andrew to host dinner St. Andrew Presbyterian Church is hosting an "Outreach" Dinner at 6 p.m. April 13, 2013, at 1390 Franklin Road, Yuba City. Tickets are $15 per person or $25 for two. Hosted by the church's mission team, proceeds...