By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, A Jewish Polish immigrant over a hundred years ago in Portland created the Semhanski fountain.  It is called “Rebecca at the well” as it depicts the Bible Genesis story of how the great patriarch Isaac met his wife, Rebecca, at a well. The very […]

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon headquartered ministry When J. I. Packer’s book Knowing God came out in 1973, I was a young Christian. God used it in my life profoundly, and it is still one of my top five books of all time. I appreciate these challenging words from Knowing […]

(Photo: Baha’i temple in India) By U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Press Release, Wyden, Boozman, and 19 Colleagues Introduce Resolution Condemning Baha’i Oppression in Iran The Iranian Baha’i community is the largest religious minority in Iran, with more than 300,000 members Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, Collaborative efforts to create a $7 million child care center known as the Northwest Early Learning Academy in Newberg, which will open by 2027 and serve 200 children, recently own a corporate philanthropy innovation award, according to The Portland Business Journal. A-Dec, a dental […]

By Oregon Faith News Note, A squatter moved into the master bedroom of a pastor’s home in Salem, Ore., and refused to leave until paid $2,500, according to a story in Newsweek. Jennifer and John Chamberlain thought they were helping when they let a woman live temporarily in a shed […]

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon headquartered ministry The human impulse to rush to judgment has always existed, but now it is common to believe whatever we hear and then post outrage using social media. But what if in our use of social media we applied the concepts of […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, George Fox University, a liberal arts college in Newberg, Ore., has grown in the past two decades to become the state’s largest private university with more than 4,350 students enrolled this year, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. What started as a small Quaker college […]

By The Protectors, Their letters are separated by zip code, but united through bewilderment and feelings of betrayal from the organizations they believed would protect their child from bullying—the leading form of child abuse in the nation, and the only form of abuse we tell the most vulnerable among us […]

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon headquartered ministry Over twenty years ago, I wrote an article titled The Scandal of Evangelical Dishonesty. The subjects I addressed were uncomfortable and controversial, including the issue of false advertising by Christian colleges. But this problem has not gone away, and if anything, […]

“Generous Presence” — UP’s Evan Leadem to Receive 2025 Spirit of Holy Cross Award By University of Portland, October 10, 2025 — Directory photo of Evan Leadem smiling at the cameraThe Congregation of Holy Cross, United States Province of Priests and Brothers has honored Associate Vice President & Chief of […]