By Dale Fulton, Dave Ramsey spoke to the Rose Garden in Portland on November 1st.  His faith based advice on financial stewardship runs counter to culture but yet is immensely popular.  ‘If you live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.  In America, debt is […]

This week Californians passed Proposition 8 which put the definition of marriage into the state constitution.  The ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging the new Proposition 8 Amendment.   Defenders of the proposition cite the Oregon Court of Appeals case, Martinez v. Kulongoski, which involved a similiar measure passed by Oregonians and […]

Below is a quarter sample of the article from Christianity Today, Full Article Here Rain fell on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday before Portland, Oregon’s CityFest, an open-air, family-friendly evangelistic festival in downtown Waterfront Park. On Friday, August 22, skies cleared and temperatures rose into the 80s. An estimated 180,000 […]

By Kelsi Johns The Institute of Theology of Culture, Overflow Newsletter So why so much attention on the gospel and culture? Our theology is built upon a foundation that explicitly and implicitly communicates how we view culture in light of the gospel. This ultimately shapes the way we engage with […]

By Dale Fulton, Is your life defined as a series of responses to crises?  Do you feel as though your time is not your own? Are you living life purposefully? Dr. Randall Kinnison is a post-graduate instructor and licensed mediator who has twenty-five years experience in conflict resolution.  He is […]

By Archdiocese of Portland, The annual collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) will be taken in the parishes of the Archdiocese of Portland the weekend of November 22 – 23. The CCHD is the program of the Catholic Church that works to eliminate the root causes of […]

George Fox professor, Mark David Hall, wrote a well-received guest opinion article in The Sunday Oregonian about faulty logic used on evangelicals views on torture.  Here is a sample of that article. There are lies, damn lies and statistics. Manipulation of the latter serves as the basis of Tom Krattenmaker’s […]

Medical Teams International provides emergency medicines to Honduran flood survivors Portland Agency provides nearly $1 million in aid this year Medical Teams International Release  (PORTLAND, ORE.—Oct. 28, 2008)   Medical Teams International is mobilizing a second emergency relief shipment of medical supplies, worth $482,000, to Honduras where thousands of families fighting […]

Oregon Author Spotlight: Paul Coughlin Article: Showing Our Kids the Whole Spectrum of Virtue Wisdom often leads to conflict, and it is spiritually neglectful not to explain to our children that if they align their lives with God’s will, they will be met with challenges.  If we don’t, we can […]

By Rick Johnson, Better Dads, Oregon During our recent trip to Texas, my wife Suzanne and I visited a remarkable facility located in the urban, inner city area of Fort Worth. We were blessed to spend some time with Gary Randle and Noble Crawford the co-founders of H.O.P.E Farm. The […]