Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon based ministry Earlier this year I read through Joni Eareckson Tada’s book When Is It Right to Die?: A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying, which has been revised and updated to examine the current events, trending issues, and the rising acceptance […]

By Jim Miller, Police are looking for a man who siphoned gas from a U-haul truck but caught himself on fire in the process.  In the video you can see the man fleeing while he himself was still on fire.  The thief left the scene with the fire still burning […]

Britton Niles, PhD, Raven’s Eye Each year the team at Raven’s Eye conducts a national survey in the United States, which asks two questions: – For what or whom are you most thankful, and why? – At this time, what or whom do you need most, and why? 2018 survey […]

By M. Martin, I was listening to a Portland vintage rock radio station, The Eagle, this week and the DJ excitedly announced that he had a list of retail stores in the Portland area that were going to be open during Thanksgiving day. Roughly 1 out of 4 Americans work […]

By Oregon Optimist, As Brendan Kelly danced to upbeat music at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, he heard a familiar sound: pop-pop-pop-pop. Kelly remembered hearing the same noise–the distinctive rattle of gunfire–at a country music concert in Las Vegas last year, and immediately took action. “As […]

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a news release published by the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor on the subject of religious exemptions: When giving the Commencement Address at the University of Notre Dame in 2009, President […]

Paul Louis Metzger, New Wineskins ministry Multnomah University professor We all struggle with memory loss. There are times people forget certain things because of trauma (as with dissociative amnesia). At other times, it is due to aging, disease, or injury to the brain. Still, at other times, it may be […]

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry By now you’ve probably read and heard all sorts of commentaries analyzing the midterm election results. Whatever your political leanings, you’ve likely been encouraged by some results and discouraged by others. For example, here in Oregon, Measure 106, which I shared about on my […]

By Faith News Note, Country and Pop star, Carrie Underwood, spoke with CBS Sunday Morning and provided a very intimate and emotional interview about her string of miscarriages and tragedies over the past few years.  Carrie also speaks honestly about her faith struggles and the power of prayer as shared […]

Oregon abortion tax funding measure 106 is defeated. By Jim Miller, Oregon abortion measure 106 to ban government tax dollars from being spent on abortions failed. Oregonians rejected the tax by 64%. Roughly 36% of the voters supported the measure. Abortion measure 106 revealed a large disparity in the funding […]