By Tom Krattenmaker  Award-winning Portland-based writer Recent book: The Evangelicals you Don’t Know – Article Also featured on..USA TODAY, Ah, the perils and pitfalls of the Christmas … er … holiday season. And they’re off! Now that it’s 2015, we can say it: There will be a presidential election next […]

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministries, Sandy Oregon Please visit his blog The term “bucket list” was popularized by the 2007 movie of that name. It’s an inventory of things people want to do before they “kick the bucket.” The idea is, since our time on earth is limited, if […]

Marty Rathbun, who was a former member of the Church of Scientology before he left, is interviewed by NBC Today show on his experience as a high level staff member within Scientology. The interview relates to a new HBO documentary called Going Clear. With every controversial story there is another […]

The Rutherford Institute Rejecting claims that student “hecklers” can silence patriotic speech, The Rutherford Institute has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review and reverse a lower court ruling that declared it unsafe for California public school students to wear American flag t-shirts to school. In a reply brief filed […]

Oregon psychics swindle timber heir out of millions By Oregon Faith News Note; A mother-daughter team of psychics swindled Ralph Raines Jr., the heir to a Washington County logging company, out of an estimated $15.5 million. The lonely 66-year-old Raines was never married and had no children. He lived for […]

By NW Baptist (Photo Jeff Guillard (left) and Pastor Michael Johnson review the Sunday worship schedule before The River Church core group meeting at Moxee City Hall in Moxee, WA. Johnson arrived in Moxee and began planting The River Church in January after concluding his service).  Michael Johnson learned a […]

A Warrior’s Faith press release, Warner Bros. Pictures “American Sniper” follows the life of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the most deadly sniper in American history, and his Navy SEAL Team 3 brothers. The blockbuster was adapted from Chris Kyle’s New York Times #1 best-selling book of the same name, which […]

Portland event center apologizes for refusing to serve gay rights group By Faith News Note An event center in NE Portland has apologized for refusing to rent space to a gay rights group. The Ambridge Event Center, whose building is owned by the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, initially refused to […]

By Sheila Allen NW Baptist Convention PORTLAND – A majority of young adults are moving into core urban areas of Portland, according to Wes Hughes, Northwest Baptist Convention church planting catalyst. Although nearly 65 percent of Portlanders claim to be either religious or spiritual, church planting is not for the […]

Press Release, Cristy McNabb announced that the God’s Glory™ Bible Facebook page was likely hacked by an Islamic State group and hijacked to spread computer disabling viruses to the more than 800,000 followers of God’s Glory™ Bible. “I woke up on February 10 to find that access to our God’s […]