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November 8, 2021 - Unexpected racial stereotypes. Discussion among friends.

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Ministry based in Sandy, Oregon In this excerpt from my novel Dominion¸ two characters discuss racial stereotypes about black people. If you’d like to explore more about racial unity, I highly recommend the resources of Tony Evans,  many of which are available for free, […]


November 5, 2021 - California passes big law against free speech

Life Legal Defense Foundation Life Legal attorneys appeared remotely in federal court in San Jose  to argue that a new California law severely restricting speech on public sidewalks is unconstitutional. The law, SB 742 prohibits, among other things, “harassing,” which is redefined as “knowingly approaching, without consent, within 30 feet […]


November 3, 2021 - Ex-PSU student talks former Muslim Brotherhood ties

By Oregon Faith News Note, A former Portland State University student writes in Newsweek about his time in the Muslim Brotherhood and offered tips for defeating terrorism. Ali al Nuaimi, chair of the Defense Affairs, Interior and Foreign Relations Committee of the UAE’s Federal National Council, shared his opinion piece […]


November 1, 2021 - Oregon scrambles to find housing for 200 Afghan refugees

By Faith News Note, Resettlement organizations in Oregon are scrambling to find housing for nearly 200 Afghanistan people fleeing their native homeland after the United States pulled its military presence in the country after two decades. A “Welcome Circle” of residents from Northeast Portland’s Cully neighborhood recently welcomed an Afghan […]


October 29, 2021 - Biden-Pope meeting gets complicated

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the meeting between the pope and the president: I issued a statement saying the White House is out to milk the meeting between Pope Francis and President Biden. They need to. Biden is in trouble […]


October 27, 2021 - How an old church can re-plant, reinvent itslef

By Sheila Allen NW Baptist Convention, Just like everything seen in nature, churches have natural life cycles. The passion and sacrifice required to start a new church is well documented and stirs the desire of many who feel called to spread the gospel to an increasingly self-focused world. As years […]


October 25, 2021 - Our most destructive assumption about Heaven

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Ministry based in Sandy, Oregon Of all the misconceptions we have about Heaven, which is the most destructive? That’s a difficult and important question to tackle. Once, while preaching about the New Earth, I cited passages about feasting together in our resurrection bodies. Afterward, […]


October 21, 2021 - Bestselling novel made into film: Redeeming Love

EPIC news release, Nthibah Pictures, Mission Pictures and Pinnacle Peak Pictures announce the release date of the highly-anticipated film REDEEMING LOVE, distributed by Universal Pictures in U.S. and Canadian theaters for January 21, 2022. Directed by D.J. Caruso (xXx: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE), it stars Abigail Cowen (“Fate: The Winx […]


October 20, 2021 - 5 keys to retain, revive volunteers in your ministry

Adapted for the NW Baptist Witness NW Baptist Witness blog   With summer nearing its end and people wrap up vacations before heading back to school and work, church leaders gear up for the new church-year – with many of the usual needs to enlist teachers and volunteer workers for […]


October 20, 2021 - Thousands reached in Eastern Oregon event

By Luis Palau Ministries, Join us in praising God for how He moved in Hermiston! After years of active preparation and prayer, thousands of followers of Jesus throughout Umatilla and Morrow Counties in Eastern Oregon came together for Greater Hermiston CityFest with Andrew Palau, leading up to a free evangelistic […]