By Jeff Merkley Oregonian guest letter The debate swirling around the proposed mosque and Muslim community center in lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center site has, for many, tapped into strong emotions of a national trauma that is still raw. But in the churning political and constitutional arguments, one […]

A Georgia University Orders Student to Change Her Christian Beliefs to Earn Degree. By Oregon Family Council In another blatant (and increasingly common) example of religious freedoms being assailed in the “land of the free”, a counseling student at Augusta State University in Georgia was told that her Christian beliefs […]

Texas Church Leads Nat’l Facebook Fast, Wed. Aug. 25 Even though we’re more connected virtually than ever before, why do so many people feel increasingly disconnected from deep and rewarding relationships? One week from today, NYTimes bestselling authors and church leaders Kerry and Chris Shook — along with 20,000 members […]

WASHINGTON, — Concerned Women for America has confirmed that Math Counts, a national math competition for teams and individual students in grades 6-8, will not allow homeschoolers to form teams and compete in the 2010-2011 school year.  The Math Counts board unanimously decided to exclude homeschoolers in response to a […]

New Pew Research Center Survey Reveals Growing Number of Americans Who Say Barack Obama is a Muslim Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Washington, D.C.—A new national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life finds […]

Religion in Sports: NFL player fasts during practice to honor Ramadan, Tim Tebow tops athlete ratings, plus Hockey star  Kane shares his faith By Oregon Faith News Notes: 1. Footballer Abdullah fasts during Ramadan 2. Tim Tebow hits #3 most popular athlete 3. Hockey star Patrick Kane shares his faith […]

Faith-Family Film Review: Eat Pray Love By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Eat Pray Love—Off-kilter values underlie this fact-based narrative of a travel writer’s (Julia Roberts) self-initiated divorce (from Billy Crudup), brief affair with a much younger actor (James Franco) and yearlong quest for enlightenment and self-understanding via Italian […]

Faith-Family Film Review: The Expendables By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting The Expendables—Brutally violent action vehicle, directed and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, in which a veritable Who’s Who of Hollywood tough guys and professional sports stars form a ragtag brotherhood of mercenaries who travel the world freeing hostages and […]

By Kari Patterson, Oregon blogger KariPatterson.com Today marks three years of investing time into this peculiar little sphere of space I call my blog.  I remember so vividly, one afternoon in July of 2007 when Jeff suggested starting a blog, so that I’d have the motivation to keep up the […]