Brian Eno Director of Next Generation Ministries Oregon Ministry Network [Excerpt]…Fuller Youth Institute suggests that around 45% of students from church youth ministries toss their faith aside when they get to college. FYI describes this kind of faith like a jacket, they say, “It’s easy to take on or off […]

Jackie Christian Beaverton, Oregon To a ballerina, there is only one thing worse than falling, and this is to stop altogether. It is drilled into us, “If anything goes wrong. get up and keep going.” Fortunately, this had never been an issue for me. Not, however, until I went to […]

By Bright Hope, Bright Hope’s church partners in Cuba held their first outdoor evangelistic meeting in recent history with 10,000 people reported in attendance. Crowds from the city of Santa Lucia located in the district of Rafael Freyre in the Holguín Province of Cuba overflowed the large public square. The […]

By Guest Opinion, Catholic Schools are seeing a turnaround across the nation and also in Oregon (see article Salem Catholic school triples.). Belwo is an article from the Wall Street Journal on the impact that vouchers have on rising enrollment in Catholic schools. “For the first time in decades, Catholic […]

The student-athletes arrive in Silti and get the “welcome” of a lifetime. By Robin Munro, Senior Writer Holt International This week Holt Senior Writer Robin Munro joins 14 Oregon State University (OSU) athletes traveling to Silti, Ethiopia. On this exciting trip, the athletes — volunteers with OSU’s Beavers Without Borders […]

By Guest Contributor, (CNN interview posted below) Atheist blogger Leah Libresco surprised her skeptic community when she announced a new article entitled “This is my last post for the Patheos Atheist Portal.” In her article she shares on how she wrestled as an atheist over the issue of morality and […]

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministries, Sandy Oregon Author of Heaven I have lamented before about the large number of young men who are not readers, and who therefore are not readers of God’s Word or great books that can deepen their walk with God, and prepare them to be […]

By Kathryn Hickok Cascade Policy Institute Fifteen million. That is the number of meals Blanchet House of Hospitality estimates it has served to the needy in Portland since 1952. Blanchet House originated as a Catholic social and service group started by University of Portland students in 1938. Today, Blanchet serves […]

A Fortnight for Freedom in western Oregon By Portland Archdiocese, Catholics in western Oregon will join with Catholics around the United States and with people of other faiths to observe a “Fortnight for Freedom.” The Fortnight will be observed from June 21 until July 4, 2012. These two weeks are […]

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