By Jeannie St. John Taylor Oregon Author of You Wouldn’t Love Me If You Knew I’m an artist, so I’ve long recognized red as the color of passion. I recall one art teacher suggesting a touch of red in every painting “just to liven it up.” Red stimulates the appetite […]

Allison Brandow, Faith Reporter, Four clergy from an Ashland, Ore., church are refusing to sign marriage licenses for heterosexual couples, indicating they will resume signing licenses when same-sex couples can also legally marry.  The Rev. Pam Shepherd of First Congregational United Church of Christ, along with three retired clergy, declared […]

Portland-Seattle Radio host Georgene Rice of KPDQ-FM interviewed with Bernie Goldberg, author of “A Slobbering Love Affair: The True and Pathetic Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media.” Georgene: It’s not often we tell a love story, but this is a story that just begs […]

Medical Teams International Tigard, Oregon (Tigard, Ore.— Feb. 11, 2009) – The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) awarded $594,000 to Medical Teams International last week so it can continue its lifesaving care of Congolese refugees inside Uganda.  Medical Teams International provided medical treatment for 27,627 […]

Weekend National Religion News Focus: “Fireproof,” from Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, has won the $100,000 Epiphany Prize for “Most Inspiring Movie of 2008,” sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation (www.templeton.org), a philanthropic organization dedicated to exploring life’s biggest questions. The award was presented by Dr. Ted […]

Weekend National News Focus: The empty tomb of Christ was not only intended to offer the church a future hope, according to best-selling author Josh McDowell in his most compelling book since Evidence That Demands a Verdict. In this first collaboration with his son Sean McDowell, titled Evidence for the […]

Novelist and screenwriter of the recent movie Assassination of Jesse James (w/Brad Pitt), Ron Hansen, to read at the University of Portland, Feb. 19th. University of Portland — Ron Hansen, a noted Catholic author, screenwriter, and professor at Santa Clara University, is the University of Portland’s spring semester Schoenfeldt Series […]

By Rick Johnson, Oregon author and founder of Better Dads Each year Better Dads ministry hosts their annual Single Mom Family Camp for approximately 25 single moms and their children.  Their goal is to honor, teach, and pamper the moms.  All the while their children are enjoying time in the […]

Georgene Rice, Wednesday, Jan 21nd, interview with George Escobar, founder of Advent Film Group, who scripted, directed and co-produced the film, Come What May. GEORGENE: The award-winning movie, Come What May screened in Portland on the 35th anniversary year of the Roe v. Wade decision. Its release this spring will […]

How is Courage Made? (Traits of the Courageous Part 2) By Paul Coughlin, Oregon Author of No More Christian Nice Guy One factor that made Fritz Graebe’s life so remarkable is that by 1941, he was already forty-one years old, a husband and father, and a successful construction engineer.  In […]