The ‘Good News’ in Iraq — Journalist Recounts Rescue of Christian Peacemakers During ‘Shock and Awe’ and Returns Seven Years Later Mike Virgintino, Shortly after the bombs started to fall on Baghdad during March 2003, three U.S. peacemakers — Reverend Weldon Nisly of Seattle Mennonite Church, Shane Claiborne of The […]

By Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon On June 15, 2012, the Obama Administration announced that it will provide deferred action, a discretionary form of relief, for certain undocumented young people who were brought to the United States as children. As a result of this executive order, an estimated 800,000 young people […]

Portland pastors form gang funeral compact  Over two dozen Portland pastors held a press conference announcing new standards at funerals to ward off gang attacks and to protect the sanctity of the deceased. A few year ago when two Portland teens open fired at a funeral of a rival gang […]

By Christian News Northwest Subscribe Media in this region were quick to jump last month on a story about a local church’s lawsuit against a former member. But another story could be written regarding how quickly the matter also became not only national but international news. On the Portland Radio […]

The Oregonian Editorial Board made this comment on the Oregon Supreme Court ruling on the Boy Scout sex-abuse files case: The Boy Scouts of America didn’t want anyone to see its so-called “perversion files,” the dossiers on men considered unfit to lead young Scouts. Too inflammatory. Too upsetting. Too likely […]

By Paul Louis Metzger Multnomah University Professor Essay originally posted at Uncommon God, Common Good.  I am a passive racist, or perhaps better, a passive racialist. When one speaks of being a racist, one often has in mind matters of intentionality. I am not intentionally attacking people of diverse ethnicities. […]

Story provided by Portland Rescue Mission A few years ago, Erin was completely broken. She had been clean and sober for a while, but her soul was mortally wounded. She still thought like an addict, felt like an addict, and lived like an addict. She knew that any small stress […]

IRD Commends Religious Leaders on Sebelius Letter By Jeff Walton The Institute on Religion & Democracy Nearly 150 religious leaders have written to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of their “grave concern” about the creation of a “two-class concept of religious organizations” that Obamacare regulators created to […]

Tualatin teens who set church fire get sentences By Guest Submission Final sentences have been handed down on two teenage boys who were charged with setting fire to the Tualatin Living Savior Lutheran Church last march.   One boy pleaded guilty top arson while the other pled guilty only to burglary […]

The Medford Mail Tribune featured a story about Adam Walker Cleaveland,Associate Pastor of Ashland’s First Presbyterian Church, who is creating a new restaurant called Theology Pub. The idea is to reach people where they are at — and where many Oregonians are at is taverns. Here is a highlight of […]