2024 Mazzocco Lecture on Distributive Justice with Former Congressman Larry LaRocco University of Portland Press Release, We are pleased to announce former Congressman and UP alum Larry LaRocco as the featured speaker for The Mazzocco Lecture on Distributive Justice on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. LaRocco was the U.S. Representative for […]

By Oregon Faith News Note, Two 76-year-old twin sisters who served as pastors of the Word & Spirit Church in Northeast Portland perished during a fire that broke out in the early morning hours of Jan. 14th during the Pacific Northwest’s arctic snowstorm, according to the Oregonian/OregonLive. Neighbors and church […]

Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Based in Oregon Nanci and I watched the Super Bowl together every year since we met in 1969. She loves Jesus, people, dogs, and football. And I think she would enjoy the videos of a strong Christian athlete and his family I’m linking to in […]

By Portland Archdiocese News release Join Archbishop Alexander Sample and special guest Elias Moo as they discuss the bright future of Catholic Education in Western Oregon with the newly established Office for the Mission of Catholic Education in the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. Elias Moo recently accepted the position […]

By Corban University Salem, Oregon “Ray of Hope Portraits is an intersection of several answered prayers,” says Amy Winsor (’09). “I started this in honor of my friend Sara Swenson. She was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in 2009, and her life before cancer, her journey with cancer, and her death made […]

Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Based in Oregon Note from Randy: You may have heard of the allegations brought by multiple Mormon women against the central real-life character of the movie The Sound of Freedom, Tim Ballard. Ballard himself is a Mormon, but whether or not these accusations prove true, […]

By Oregon Faith News Note; Two spirited Pacific University students Benjamin Martin and Shinia Kildill made a short form movie about Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals. KOIN-TV ran this news story:

By Kathryn Hickok Cascade Policy Institute The National School Choice Awareness Foundation conducted a survey of parents of school-aged children in early January. The results indicate that parents “increasingly see school choice as the ‘new normal’ in a post-pandemic world.” The survey report, New Year, New Schools: U.S. Parents View […]

Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Based in Oregon If I had any doubts about whether people are genuinely interested in learning about and applying God’s perspective on finances, they ended late in 2001 when my little book The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving was published. It immediately […]

By Faith News Note; Although they’ve been doing it nearly 40 years, Catholic priests can no longer celebrate Mass at the ecumenical Lutheran-Catholic Spirit of Grace church in Beaverton, Ore., according to a dictate just before Christmas by U.S. Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland. The archbishop sent a letter to […]