By Dan Merchant, NW Filmmaker, Lord Save Us From Your Followers Dan Merchant’s Blog Last Monday, January 12th, my favorite USA Today columnist Tom Krattenmaker presented a terrific column on what he described as a new wrinkle in the Evangelical Pro Life movement.  Krattenmaker proposed that by carrying the Sanctity […]

By Tom Fuller, author of Oregon at Work: 1859-2009 and Images of America: Salem Jason Lee was probably pretty disappointed with himself after his mission to the Oregon Country failed. Jason answered the call to bring Christianity to Oregon after some members of the Flathead (Nez Perce) tribe came east […]

USA Today featured Oregonian Mike Mercer of Compassion First and hs efforts to stop global human trafficking and prostitution.  Mike recently finished a midnight New Year’s fundraiser run to raise awareness and funds for his project.  Here is the USA Today story except: “Now that he knows the name of […]

By Kathryn Hickok, Portland Richard John Neuhaus, admired for decades as one of the leading Christian intellectuals in the U.S., died January 8 at the age of 72. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for him in New York City on Tuesday. Father Neuhaus spent over thirty years as […]

Georgene Rice of KPDQ-FM interviewed Nicole Hoplin who is co-author of *Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement*.  Here is an excerpt of that interview: Georgene: You know, this is a very unusual book in that it covers an element of the history of conservatism as a movement […]

By Jeannie St. John Taylor Oregon Author of Culture-Proof Kids I expect you were as shocked and saddened as I at the recent bank bombing in Woodburn; I felt deep sorrow for the victims and their families. But my horror and shock grew when I learned that the family of […]

By Maxine Marsolini Blended Families.Net When I married the second time, our stepfamily began as strangers unsure of one another. For trust to be felt between me and my stepchildren, and between my children and their stepfather, would take time to build. Children are voiceless when it comes to divorce […]

From Corban College, Salem Corban College and Graduate School announces the hire of Darrel White as its Director of Development. The position has been vacant since March 2008 while administrators sought a candidate with significant fundraising experience and a background in Christian education. Joining the Office of Advancement, White assumes […]

Holt International, Eugene, Oregon One day in Seoul, Korea, a newborn baby boy was found in the garbage and taken to Holt in the hopes that his life could be saved. He was soon adopted and raised in Michigan by his parents along with his sister, who is also adopted […]

By Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspectives Ministries Sandy, Oregon A year ago July, I blogged about the days of filming I did for a new DVD about Heaven.  That small group DVD, which is a seven-week discussion guide designed for the book Heaven, is now available as a bonus product in […]