By Religion Newswriters Association The death of Osama bin Laden—which spurred discussions among people of faith on issues of forgiveness, peace, justice and retribution was voted the No. 1 Religion Story of 2011 by the nation’s leading religion journalists. The 2011 survey of Religion Newswriters Association (RNA) members marks the […]

The Advent Conspiracy campaign started at the Imago Dei church in southeast Portland and now has spread around the world. The Advent Conspiracy is changing how people view Christmas by spending less on consumer gifts and more on personal gifts. The gifts improve and the money saved goes to charity. […]

Premiere Watchdog Selects Medical Teams International For National “10 Top-Notch Charities” List By Medical Teams International Charity Navigator, the premier charity watchdog group in the U.S., placed Medical Teams International in its 2011 list of “10 Top-Notch Charities.” The Portland-area based charity was selected from 5,000 non-profits in the watchdog […]

by Rick Johnson Better Dads Ministry, Roseberg Oregon This past season, several high-profile college head football and basketball coaches have been vilified and lost their jobs due to the perception that they harshly enforced disciplinary methods upon a player or players in their program. I’m not defending these coaches’ methods […]

Church blesses troops with care package campaign By Oregon Faith News Note: The McMinnville News-Register has an excellent story on members of St. John’s Church in Yamhill  Oregon, sending hundreds of care packages to U.S. Troops.   This  highly involved care package campaign has been going strong since 2006. Leading […]

Georgene Rice of KPDQ-FM interviews Lila Rose, an undercover student investigator. She discusses a 15 year old student in the Seattle area who got an abortion on school time without the parents’ knowledge . Georgene: Lila Rose has visited many Planned Parenthoods and provided visual evidence that the practice of […]

Actress creates website to inspire teen girls By Project Inspired, With the goal of helping teenage girls achieve their maximum potential, ProjectInspired.com has launched as a strong voice and positive influence. Created by successful model Nicole Weider, ProjectInspired.com is a unique voice, providing wisdom, truth and honest answers to a […]

UP MBA students to deliver free burritos to homeless in downtown Portland on Saturday, Dec. 10 as part of Portland Burrito Project By University of Portland University of Portland Masters of Business Administration (MBA) students Joaquin Ortiz and Katie Smith have started the Portland Burrito Project, a group of friends […]

National campaign ads & speeches suddenly target morality By Guest opinion, The traditional campaign ads and speech attacks of the 2012 Presidential race by Republicans (and occasionally Obama) have been focused on issues and flip flops. With the recent surge of Newt Gingrich to GOP frontrunner has suddenly opened the […]

By Milan Homola Compassion Connect In preparation for the Portland City Impact Roundtable I’m revisiting a great book about which I’ve wanted to write a short blog series. The book is “To Transform a City” by Eric Swanson and Sam Williams, Swanson will be the keynote speaker at the City […]