Ty Mays, ecfa.org While charitable giving to large ECFA-accredited nonprofits and churches increased a modest 2.4 percent in 2012, as compared with a 1.4 percent decrease for 2011, giving to small organizations continued to decline for the second consecutive year, the faith-based financial accountability organization announced today.   When adjusted […]

University of Portland to host “The Impact of Catholic Education in America: Past, Present, and Future,” Thursday through Saturday, June 20-22 By University of Portland University of Portland will host a conference, “The Impact of Catholic Education in America: Past, Present, and Future,” Thursday through Saturday, June 20-22, on the […]

  By Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights Bill Donohue comments on Bill Maher’s HBO Friday night show: Maher’s obsession with Catholicism was on display again Friday night. His joking around about the pope being an atheist crossed no lines, nor did his swipe at Jesus being a hippie. […]

What do you do when your church steeple is infested with a massive bee hive 40 feet of the ground? You call in the experts — which are few. See KGW-TV video below.

By Tom Krattenmaker Tom is an award-winning Portland-based writer Recent books Onward Christian Athletes & The Evangelicals you Don’t Know . (Article appeared 5/12/13, USA Today, Huffington post) Depending on what happens at the Boy Scouts’ national meeting this month, gay Scouts might soon be accepted into the venerable organization. […]

By Portland Archdiocese 6th Annual Blessing of the Bikes The parish of St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and the Archdiocese of Portland’s Department of Evangelization announce the sixth annual “Blessing of the Bikes,” on Sunday, June 9, 2013 at 2:00 pm in the courtyard of the Cathedral. The […]

Senate Majority Office, Bill gives donors more protection against phony charitable groups HB 2060A sets up a reasonable expectation that charities must deliver services to receive tax benefits The Senate voted to give generous Orego nians more protections against phony charities. House Bill 2060A, which passed on a vote of […]

Terri Patrick Oregon writer Terri Patrick’s blog A recent news article stated the I-pad tablet is Only Three Years Old, then the author revealed how the tablet technology has changed his daily routines and the way he interacts with his young children because of all the cool apps and these […]

By Beaver State Believer, Oregon writer, One of the most talked about movie of the summer may turn out to be the most unexpected. I am talking about Will Smith’s After Earth. The first news to come out of this film was the early prediction that this movie will the […]

By Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights Bill Donohue comments on the 2012 Annual Report by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on the subject of sexual abuse: The survey, done by an institute at Georgetown University, shows how utterly absurd it is to maintain that the Catholic […]