Oregon evangelist Luis Palau Invited to Vietnam By Luis Palau Ministries, (Portland, Oregon) – Luis Palau will join with Christian leaders throughout Vietnam for historic celebration events this spring. With events scheduled in Ho Chi Minh City (Old Saigon), Hanoi, and Danang, the effort will focus on the 100th anniversary […]

Oregon State University Socratic Club In 1996 Mary Poplin, a professor at Claremont, spent her sabbatical as a volunteer working in Calcutta with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity. Poplin wanted to understand why Mother Teresa said their ministry was “religious work and not social work.” Poplin’s experience radically […]

SJR 28 Testimony: Oregon needs adult business zoning — Legislative Update-Senate Joint Resolution 28 By Oregon Family Council The following is testimony that was given before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Senate Joint Resolution 28 on March 22, 2011: The Oregon Family Council believes that sexually explicit businesses […]

The 3rd Annual State of the Plate survey from 1,507 churches showed giving increased last year for 43 percent of churches. But 91 percent of church leaders are concerned about proposed government changes to tax deductions for charitable giving. By State of the Plate WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ […]

Author RobBell explains his new book Love Wins and his ideas on hell on ABC By Beaver State Believer, Rob Bell’s new book Love Wins has created a national debate over hell. Instead of relying on critics I set out to find any news interviews done by Rob Bell and […]

Family-Faith Film Review: Source Code By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Source Code: Taut direction by Duncan Jones and game performances all around help disguise the logical conundrums underlying this sci-fi thriller. As part of a cutting-edge antiterrorism operation, a heroic Afghan War veteran (Jake Gyllenhaal) is enabled to […]

Family-Faith Film Review: Sucker Punch By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Sucker Punch — Inchoate fantasy designed especially for those who like their movies to be thrill rides devoid of such niceties as coherent plot, writing or wrap-up. Director Zack Snyder, who co-wrote the screenplay with Steve Shibuya, supposedly […]

New Survey: Few Americans see earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters a sign from God By Public Religion Research Institute WASHINGTON, DC—Most Americans believe in a personal God who is in control of everything that happens in the world, but a new national poll finds few believe that God sometimes […]

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministries Sandy Oregon There has been a lot of online response to Rob Bell’s new book Love Wins. The controversy began with this video, which I’ve posted here so you can hear Pastor Bell’s own words: I think the doctrine of hell may be the […]

Local Perspective: Anti-Trafficking Organization Compassion First Turns Numbers Into Names. By Courtney Brown, Oregon writer Mike Mercer came home one night to his wife Kymra watching Oprah. The episode was about human trafficking. “I think you’re supposed to do something about this,” she said. After that, the former pastor in […]