USA Today featured Oregonian Mike Mercer of Compassion First and hs efforts to stop global human trafficking and prostitution.  Mike recently finished a midnight New Year’s fundraiser run to raise awareness and funds for his project.  Here is the USA Today story except: “Now that he knows the name of […]

By Kathryn Hickok, Portland Richard John Neuhaus, admired for decades as one of the leading Christian intellectuals in the U.S., died January 8 at the age of 72. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for him in New York City on Tuesday. Father Neuhaus spent over thirty years as […]

Georgene Rice of KPDQ-FM interviewed Nicole Hoplin who is co-author of *Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement*.  Here is an excerpt of that interview: Georgene: You know, this is a very unusual book in that it covers an element of the history of conservatism as a movement […]

By Jeannie St. John Taylor Oregon Author of Culture-Proof Kids I expect you were as shocked and saddened as I at the recent bank bombing in Woodburn; I felt deep sorrow for the victims and their families. But my horror and shock grew when I learned that the family of […]

By Maxine Marsolini Blended Families.Net When I married the second time, our stepfamily began as strangers unsure of one another. For trust to be felt between me and my stepchildren, and between my children and their stepfather, would take time to build. Children are voiceless when it comes to divorce […]

From Corban College, Salem Corban College and Graduate School announces the hire of Darrel White as its Director of Development. The position has been vacant since March 2008 while administrators sought a candidate with significant fundraising experience and a background in Christian education. Joining the Office of Advancement, White assumes […]

Holt International, Eugene, Oregon One day in Seoul, Korea, a newborn baby boy was found in the garbage and taken to Holt in the hopes that his life could be saved. He was soon adopted and raised in Michigan by his parents along with his sister, who is also adopted […]

By Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspectives Ministries Sandy, Oregon A year ago July, I blogged about the days of filming I did for a new DVD about Heaven.  That small group DVD, which is a seven-week discussion guide designed for the book Heaven, is now available as a bonus product in […]

By the Archdiocese of Portland, The St. Bernard project is rebuilding the lives of Katrina survivors family by family. The Archdiocese of Portland’s Office of Justice and Peace is offering an opportunity to learn more about the St. Bernard Project on Wednesday, January 21 at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center (2838 […]

Paul Coughlin Oregon author of No More Christian Nice Guy “We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we […]