Family-Faith Film Review: The American By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting The American—A professional assassin (George Clooney) flees to Italy in search of healing and a better life, only to discover that it’s hard to shake his past. He falls for the proverbial prostitute with a heart of gold […]

Family-Film Review: Machete By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Machete—Ultraviolent exploitation flick about a Mexican vigilante (Danny Trejo), handy with sharp objects, who exacts revenge against a drug lord and uncovers a right-wing, anti-immigration conspiracy stateside in the process. Writer-director-producer Robert Rodriguez goes out of his way to tickle […]

By Beaver Believer, Oregon writer There is a small town Florida pastor, Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center, who is planning a Burn the Quran Day on 9-11 as his plan to draw attention to his fight against Islam. This bad public relations move has inflamed anger around […]

Oregon radio host Georgene Rice of KPDQ-FM show interviews Jill Savage, co-author of “Living with Less so your Family Has More: Redefining Your Priorities to Put Your Family First. Rice – What motivated your family that required you to live with less but with returns of much greater value? Savage: […]

As Ramadan ends, Muslims seek school holiday By Nicole Neroulias Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) For Nikhat Choudhury, the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha mean picking out new clothes, getting together with her cousins and feasting on homemade samosas and other traditional South Asian dishes.  In […]

8 in 10 Church Members Think Sex Offenders Belong in Church — New survey reveals attitudes and practices relating to released sex offenders at church Nearly 80 percent of the more than 2,500 respondents to the “Sex Offenders in the Church” survey, conducted by Christianity Today International (CTI), say they […]

Family-Faith Film Review: The Waiting City By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting The Waiting City—This poignant yet challenging drama follows an Australian couple (Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton) to India, where they hope to finalize their adoption of a baby girl. But the tensions created by bureaucratic delays and […]

Greg Walden: Absurd fine on Mercy Flights is Exhibit A for out-of-control government — Walden asks Transportation Secretary LaHood for official explanation By Congressman Greg Walden HOOD RIVER, Ore. — U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) yesterday told Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood in a letter he is disappointed by the […]

By Andrew Palau, Luis Palau Ministries No matter how many stories you hear, you never dream you will be the one in a plane crash. For me and my family, the worst came true last Christmas (2009). We barely escaped with our lives. You may remember hearing about American Airlines […]

EMO speaks out on Cordoba Community Center and Mosque in New York Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO) joins the National Council of Churches and Oregonian editorial writers and columnists to express our concern at the tenor of discourse in the past weeks around the building of […]