By Liberty Counsel, Between his campaign against President Gerald Ford in 1975-76 and his race against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan delivered more than 1,000 radio broadcasts. In fact, Mr. Reagan wrote most of those three-minute broadcasts himself. In one broadcast during the Christmas season, Reagan shared a story about Christmas […]

Oregon Ecumenical Ministries Oregon faith leaders’ statement on death penalty commutation As faith leaders, we call on Governor Kate Brown to commute all death sentences in Oregon to life without the possibility of parole. We base this request on shared values, rooted in our religious traditions: compassion, the affirmation of […]

By Faith News Note, It maybe the season for peace and good will, but in Medford citizens are in an uproar over anti-Muslim posters throughout the city earlier this month, prompting outrage, charges of racism and pleas for public denunciation.   The poster’s creators, a white supremacist organization called American Vangaurd, […]

The ACLU sued successfully to remove a cross on top of a city Christmas tree.  A petition has started to keep it.  Watch the Fox News clip below.

By Tom Krattenmaker Award-winning Portland-based writer Article also featured on Huffington Post I am not a religious person. But that does not mean I must start from scratch in the construction of my governing body of ethics and life’s purpose. As I scan the pantheon of philosophers, prophets, teachers, artists, […]

By Oregon news note, The Lake Oswego pastor of Christ Church Episcopal who bought a AR-15 gun at a charity raffle in order to destroy it has broken it down and turned it into garden tools. This was the pastors way of speaking out against guns in society. The pastor […]

By Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights Bill Donohue comments on Donald Trump’s friendly attitude toward religion: None of the three biggest vote getters in the primaries—Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders—are known for their deeply rooted religious convictions. Trump is Presbyterian and Clinton is a Methodist, and […]

Oregon Faith News Note, The Portland Christmas attempted bomber, Mohamud Mohamud, appealed a conviction and this week that appeal was rejected by a court judge. Follow the KGW-8 news clip below.

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministries, Sandy Oregon Please visit his blog While speaking about sexual purity at my church several years ago, I told parents that if they’re going to let their children have unrestricted Internet access in the privacy of their own rooms, through computers, tablets, phones, or […]

They’re saying this massive refugee migration out of the Middle East/North Africa into Europe has been the largest migration of people since World War II. As many nations have started closing their borders, it has left trapped hundreds of thousands of people stuck in refugee camps.  I had a chance […]