Post Grad (PG-13) Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting After failing to secure her dream job, a recent college graduate (Alexis Bledel) is forced to return home to her eccentric parents (Jane Lynch and Michael Keaton) and feisty grandmother (Carol Burnett) whose antics distract her from her employment search and […]

Faith Film Review: Shorts (PG) Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting Shorts — Clever children’s fantasy about a rainbow-colored rock that grants the wishes of anyone holding it, and the chaos its misuse wreaks on the lives of a bullied schoolboy (Jimmy Bennett), his parents (Jon Cryer and Leslie Mann), […]

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama invoked many religious themes in his conference call to rabbi’s in support of health care reform.  Here are three news excerpts: From Time, “The president described the need to tackle health reform as a “moral conviction” that “no one in America should be denied basic […]

By Oregon Faith Report, While some speak of a national spiritual decline and aging priesthood there is a new generation of spiritual leaders  very different from their predecessors.  This summer, the Portland Archdiocese ordained the highest number of priests in 35 years.  A new study has found that a smaller […]

Oregon will join Pennsylvania as the only states that forbid teachers from wearing religious attire. By Oregon Faith Report, The nationwide debate over religious observances in schools and the workplace made its way to Oregon.  During the 2009 legislative session, leaders in Salem passed the Oregon Workplace Religious Freedom Act.  […]

Christian Newswire —In THE SEARCH FOR GOD AND GUINNESS: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World (Thomas Nelson, October 13, 2009), Stephen Mansfield explores the groundbreaking business acumen of this prolific company, and uncovers a deeply held faith running throughout the family’s history.  Arthur Guinness was a great […]

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life did a media comparison on the reporting differences on faith based initiative stories between the first six months of George Bush and Barack Obama.  Here is what they found: * Coverage of the faith-based initiative was almost 50% more likely to be […]

By Sheila Allen, Northwest Baptist Witness NW Baptist Convention CORVALLIS, Ore. —Chester Correll would never claim he has the quickest pen, but speed was not essential when he began writing the Bible out, verse by verse, in longhand. Correll grew up in Corvallis, Ore., the middle child of three sons […]

By Oregon Faith Report, Preston Newby, recent Alumni of Multnomah University and Youth Pastor at Lake Bible Church in Lake Oswego, was killed in 2008 by a motorist while helping an accident victim.  The young widow, Tara Newby, has had her story picked up by Farmer’s Insurance and even made […]

As featured in Christianity Today, an author is promoting early marriage as a way to combat premarital sex and unwed pregnancies. “Indeed, over 90 percent of American adults experience sexual intercourse before marrying. The percentage of evangelicals who do so is not much lower. In a nationally representative study of […]