(RNS) — The reckoning, if we are honest, is long overdue.

The fireworks booths in Lodi sell only "Safe and Sane" products for Independence Day, but a local church wanted to make the holiday even safer for the community. Saturday was the first day local ...

LGBTQ+ community members and allies, state politicians and city officials, dancers and musicians paraded along crowded streets from the Roundhouse to the Santa Fe Plaza on Saturday morning. Thousands ...