Institute on Religion and Democracy — The highly controversial and scandal plagued Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has received multiple grants from Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) agencies, according to The Presbyterian Layman. Both houses of the U.S. Congress recently voted to defund ACORN amid allegations of voter fraud […]

Archeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph The Jerusalem Post reports, “Excerpts provided by MEMRI show that the coins were discovered among a multitude of unsorted artifacts stored at the Museum of Egypt.According to the report, the significance of the find is […]

Faith and family film review of Surrogates PG-13 Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Generally intriguing futuristic thriller, set in an America where people live their lives through ideal-looking robotic surrogates that they remote-control by their thoughts, follows an FBI agent (Bruce Willis) and his partner’s (Radha Mitchell) investigation of […]

Faith-Family Film Review: Pandorum – R Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting, Pandorum — Complex and deeply cliched sci-fi horror excursion in which two astronauts (Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster) awaken from an eight-year hypersleep to learn that their spacecraft, a sort of Noah’s Ark designed to keep life from […]

D.C. Judge issues a mixed decision in “ex-gay” discrimination case By Oregon Faith Report, A Washington D.C. Superior Court judge ruled back in June that people who consider themselves “ex-gays” are protected from discrimination under the sexual orientation provision of the city’s Human Rights Act.  However, in the same ruling, […]

From KOMO News Washington comes a story about an Issaquah pastor fighting for road rights on a new road that is connected with teh nearby nudist camp.  Here is the story; “An Issaquah pastor wants the road less traveled, but he’s the only one. He says he owns the private […]

Brighten the life of a child in Korea this Christmas Holt International, Eugene, Oregon Holt needs volunteers to sign up for this year’s Gift Team trip to Korea. Every December volunteers on Holt’s Korea Gift Team deliver gifts and host celebrations for the children, foster mothers and caregivers at the […]

By Oregon Faith Report, David Gergen, CNN newsman and presidential adviser to Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton will share his thoughts on the intersection of church and state in reducing poverty  at the 2009 Catholic Charities gathering Sept. 24-26 in Portland.   Also, free pancakes, doughnuts and coffee will be handed […]

How many spiritual pilgrimages also include food reviews? By Solange De Santis, Religion News Service, NEW YORK—During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, New Yorkers Aman Ali, 24, and Bassam Tariq, 22, are breaking the 12-hour daily fasts at iftar dinners and prayer services at a different mosque each evening. […]

Preachers praying harm to our President end up harming out country. By Kay Marshall Strom, Eugene author of 36 books, A minister in Tempe, Arizona, praying for the death of the president after delivering a sermon entitled “Why I hate Barak Obama”?  Other preachers, from California to South Carolina, telling […]