By Maureen Collins Alliance for Defending Freedom This past term at the U.S. Supreme Court was interesting to say the least. For the first time ever, oral arguments were conducted over the phone due to COVID-19 precautions. And there was no shortage of important decisions delivered. For advocates of religious […]

By NW Baptist Witness, Photo: Worshippers at Grant Ave. Baptist Church in Corvallis, OR, were directed to appropriately distanced seating when state regulations allowed churches to resume services.   As Alex Kato and his family prepared a cross-country move for him to step in as new pastor at Trinity Baptist […]

By Steve Miller, This video was highly recommended which features Pastor Keith Jenkins of East Hill Church in Gresham Oregon.   The entire video is 35 minutes long and I encourage everyone to watch the whole thing.  Understanding that most people are short attention span thinkers I transcribed the ending recommendations […]

By Family Research Council, Family Research Council Executive Vice President Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William G. Boykin joined 46 retired flag-rank officers in signing an open letter published in today’s Washington Times that supports President Trump’s authority to stop the ongoing rioting and lawlessness in America’s cities. The signatories include 42 […]

By Christian News NW Subscribe OLYMPIA, Wash. — A controversial measure will be on Washington’s general election ballot in November, and evangelical Christians are being credited in part for that. Despite the pandemic, 266,000 signatures — nearly twice the number required and a record number for a social issue initiative […]

By Cascade Policy Institute The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 30 in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue that states’ school choice laws may not discriminate against religiously affiliated schools. Montana’s tax credit scholarship program, passed in 2015, enabled families to send their children to the private schools of their […]

(Photo: woman mourns descrating of St. Junipero Serra. video) By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Anti-Catholicism is sweeping California. Attacks on Catholic statues, public complaints about Catholics attending Mass, the selective enforcement of executive orders on religious gatherings, and politicians seeking to intimidate priests and bishops, are commonplace. […]

By Oregon Right to Life, The so-called “Reproductive Health Equity Act” (HB 3391) forces insurance companies in Oregon to cover abortions with no deductibles or copays. The law has many additional provisions which expanded abortion coverage. Now, any woman in Oregon can obtain an abortion essentially for free. From the […]

(Photo: of the Brown family) By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon based ministry Soon after the death of George Floyd, Kelsey Brown, a woman I know and deeply respect, who lives here in Oregon, shared the following words on Facebook. (Kelsey’s husband Vergil, founding pastor of Gresham Bible Church, […]

By Beckett Law, The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of two California Catholic schools, finding that the government cannot control a church school’s decision about who teaches its religion classes. In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James Catholic School v. Biel, the Becket Fund for […]