Excerpt from Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report “Nones” on the rise. While the ranks of the unaffiliated have grown significantly over the past five years, the Protestant share of the population has shrunk. In 2007, 53% of adults in Pew Research Center surveys described themselves as Protestants. […]

Bruce E. Brown Proactive Coaching Washington-based group for athletes, parents, teachers Boys Little boys are like puppies. Most of the time they are easy going, and they spend a lot of time playing and sleeping. For the most part, they are very cute. They are inquisitive, adventurous, free spirited and […]

By Christian News Northwest Subscribe When the ballots are officially tallied here, will Washington have followed the lead of 32 other states and voted to preserve traditional one-man one-woman marriage for now, or might it be the first to endorse same-sex marriage in a public vote? Unless the vote is […]

by Michal Ann McArthur Last December, Austin Sprout, 16, of Creswell, Oregon, died of a burst appendix because his parents did not seek medical help for him. On September 18,  Russel and Brandi Bellew (his biological mother) pleaded guilty to negligent homicide and were sentenced to five years’ probation. The […]

OAJC will present 2012 Human Relations Award to Senator Merkley Oregon Area Jewish Committee On October 25, 2012 the Oregon Area Jewish Committee will honor Senator Jeff Merkley with its 2012 Human Relations Award. The award will be presented at a dinner to be held at the Benson Hotel with […]

The Ecce Homo fresco painting of Christ in the Spanish town of Madrid was showing signs of serious deterioration from its 1930’s painting. An restoration artists was commissioned to fix the art, but ended up making it horrifically worse. The world’s worst restoration job is now a fame unto itself. […]

By Catholic League for Religious and civil rights Deal Hudson, president of the Pennsylvania Catholics Network, is cited today in a U.S. News blog story on the anti-religious antics of Catholics for Obama. Bill Donohue addresses this issue: Should Christians vote for a Jewish Democratic candidate for president? Should they […]

 Author: Forgiving the church after sex abuse As a young child, Bill Christman experienced the ultimate betrayal. Sexually abused by a Catholic priest, Bill’s life was set down a path of fear, rage, violence, drug abuse and alcoholism to mask the pain. For Bill, the trauma of his priest’s perverse […]

By Sheila Allen NW Baptist Convention With more than two million spectators swirling around her, Angie Quantrell joined the global spectacle in London, England, known as 2012 Olympic Games. But she was more interested in the spectators than the sporting events taking place. Quantrell, a kindergarten teacher, joined a team […]

Part 1 of a three-part series By Oregon family Council Early in his administration, President Obama, together with the Pelosi congress, chose to cut all federal funding for abstinence-only sex education. While this raised some outcry, many parents remained calm, knowing that their schools would still be using curricula known […]