Book Review of Paul Louis Metzger, Evangelical Zen: A Christian’s Spiritual Travels With A Buddhist Friend (Paul Louis Metzger is a Multnomah University professor) Review by Derrick Peterson Perfectly good words are all-too-easily haunted by histories they never intended. Hostages of ill-fortune, these once proud turns of the tongue find […]

Institute for Religion and Democracy, Endorsement by several Republican presidential candidates of registering women for a hypothetical military draft, and the Obama Administration’s removing remaining strictures against women in combat roles, have provoked controversy from some conservative Christians. Nearly all of the critics so far have been Evangelical, mostly Southern […]

By Christian News Northwest Subscribe Eric Lee Stiller, whose steadfast faith in Christ and 22 years of dedication to the ministry of Christian News Northwest played a critical role in its long-term survival, died unexpectedly early last month. He was 65. Stiller’s body was found in the living room of […]

Corban University, Salem, Oregon “It’s a story about what God will do when you obey,” head baseball coach Jeff McKay said about the incredible opportunity Corban’s baseball team received last summer to travel to Caimanera, Cuba. They were the first American baseball team in Caimanera in nearly 60 years and […]

Oregon House Votes To Strengthen Anti-Sex Trafficking Laws HB 4082 Closes Dangerous Loophole In Statutes Related To ‘Promoting Prostitution’ Representative John Huffman Release, The Oregon House of Representatives unanimously approved HB 4082, which seeks to strengthen anti-prostitution laws in Oregon and hold sex traffickers more accountable for engaging in criminal […]

By Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights Bill Donohue comments on Bill Maher’s latest smear: On his Friday night HBO show, Bill Maher quoted Marco Rubio as saying, “We are clearly called by the Bible to adhere to our civil authorities, but that conflicts with our requirements to adhere […]

By Oregon Right to Life The new president of the Oregon Right to Life board of directors, Harmony Daws, was fired from her position as operations manager of a thriving Portland-area cleaning business. Two weeks prior, she had told her left-leaning boss that she had accepted the position as president. […]

By Tom Krattenmaker  Award-winning Portland-based writer Recent book: The Evangelicals you Don’t Know Tom’s article also featured on USA Today The Republican presidential race is getting more interesting by the day. For all the wrong reasons. As if the suspense from the neck-and-neck competition between front-runners Donald Trumpand Ted Cruz […]

By Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights Bill Donohue comments on some setbacks for secular activists: It’s been a tough week for secular activists, with advances for religious freedom and school choice, and a new Pew Research survey showing a majority of Americans want a religious believer as president. […]

By Paul Louis Metzger Multnomah University Professor New Wine Skins Ministry (*Spoiler Alert within article *) I went to a movie theater in the Portland area for “The Revenant”. Here is the official trailer for the movie. The film narrates the story of Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), a famed frontiersman […]