By Heidi McLaughlin Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon headquartered ministry April 24, 2025 Question from a reader: Randy, I’ve really appreciated your books. You don’t hesitate to apply Scripture, even where it steps on my toes. My question is this: my wife and I are near retirement age, have ample savings, and […]

By Oregon Right to Life, Salem, Ore. — Oregon senators on Tuesday voted to approve a bill that will establish August 25 as “Oregon Adoption Day.” The Oregon Senate approved the bill, HB 2019, in a unanimous vote Tuesday afternoon. Republican Representative Lucetta Elmer, the carrier and presenting sponsor of […]

Swahili Catholic community organizes celebration with Archbishop Sample By Portland Archdiocese, Press Release, On May 4, more than 400 faithful gathered at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Portland for a Holy Mass celebrated with the Swahili-speaking Catholic Community and Archbishop Alexander Sample. The church was filled beyond capacity—standing room […]

Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspectives Ministry, Based in Oregon At the IllumiNations conference in 2024, Bobby Gruenewald (founder of the YouVersion Bible app) moderated a conversation between Randy Alcorn,  who wrote a book about Heaven, and astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who has been to the heavens. They talk about the New Earth, […]

By Oregon State Representative Emily McIntire, Press Release, Today, May 1, 2025 marks the first day of Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month. Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) refers to a group of 13 heritable connective tissue disorders with each type of EDS having its own set of symptoms. Some […]

Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspectives Ministry, Based in Oregon Question from a reader: Randy, you wrote: Many religions offer non-stop programs of self-reformation, forever walking the treadmill, putting in the miles but never finishing the work. God invites us to “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and […]

Statement from Archbishop Alexander Sample on the Death of Pope Francis By Portland Archdiocese, April 21, 2025  //  Archbishop Alexander K. Sample  //  Download PDF  “It is with profound sorrow that I join with the universal Church in mourning the passing of our beloved Holy Father, Pope Francis. Today, we […]

Recent PA graduate Carlos Barajas is back in his native L.A. area assisting those displaced by the recent wildfires. By Sean Patterson George Fox University editor It seems Carlos Barajas was destined to find his calling in the medical profession. He himself was in and out of hospitals as a […]

By Oregon State Representative Mark Owens, Press release, Last weekend, Congressman Bentz was in Burns to meet with the community. I want to thank Senator Mike McLane, Harney County officials, the City of Burns, and our state partners who joined him for a roundtable on the ongoing flooding. We heard […]

Eternal Perspectives Ministry, Based in Oregon In the twentieth century, many Bible-believing churches moved from Charles Spurgeon’s “You cannot be too happy” to “God doesn’t want you to be happy.” Some Christian leaders—Oswald Chambers was one among many—saw the word happiness applied to sinful activities (e.g., people abandoning their families […]