Oregon Senate votes to end isolation punishment for youth SB 82 bans Oregon Youth Authority from placing youth in locked rooms alone By Oregon Senate Majority Office SALEM – Oregon Youth Authority would be required to stop using isolation as a punishment, under a bill passed  by the Oregon Senate. […]

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministries, Sandy Oregon Please visit his blog The movie The Shack¸ based on the novel with the same title by Paul Young, will release in March. By now you have likely seen previews of the movie. Of course, in what I share below, I’m only […]

By Oregon Veterans Association, A man posing as a combat veteran and widowed father has preyed upon the generosity of Portland area Christians by telling heartbreaking but entirely fictitious stories, according to a KGW investigation launched in December. The television station’s investigation found that Michele Bocci, 34, a slender man […]

By Tom Krattenmaker Award-winning Portland-based writer When it comes to our acceptance of other people, Jesus enlarged the circle. Love everyone, he taught. It’s encouraging to see this ethic holding up to some degree in a country where a culture of welcome has been one of our proudest hallmarks — […]

 By Catholic League for religious and civil rights In 1965, an animated Christmas special was aired, “Charlie Brown’s Christmas.” Peanuts character Linus quoted from Luke in the New Testament, “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior which is Christ the Lord. That’s what […]

From Samuel Metz, MD Portland, Oregon Soraya Deen is a nationally known speaker on interfaith dialogue and empowering women. The City Club of Portland event, described below, is one of several appearances in Oregon. Please see links below to find an event close to you.

By Multnomah University, Global studies major and Marketing Assistant Meghan Krause shares her perspective on this year’s Global Missions Conference.  Dr. Karen Fancher speaks at MU’s 77th annual Global Missions Conference. This past week, Multnomah hosted the 77th annual Global Ministries Conference, or GMC. The GMC’s slogan for this year […]

All In Movement, Michael Phillips was once the owner and Chief Operating Officer of one of the fastest growing IT firms in the country. But in June of 2012, in response to what he describes as a “calling from God,” he walked away from his business and gave his truck […]

By Christian News Northwest Subscribe For the past several years, state Rep. Vic Gilliam sought persistently to see a statue of Oregon missionary pioneer Jason Lee replaced in the nation’s capital with one depicting the late U.S. Sen. and Gov. Mark Hatfield. With each successive year, his goal grew closer […]

By Paul Louis Metzger Multnomah University Professor New Wine Skins Ministry Have you ever lived out of a suitcase? It isn’t easy. I can only imagine what it must be like for a refugee, who is fleeing one country in search of another, only to be held back from entering […]