George Fox University, A Vilas Distinguished Achievement professor of ecology and recent associate dean of research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Richard L. Lindroth, will discuss climate change at the ninth annual Dalton Lecture at George Fox University at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 11, in the school’s Bauman Auditorium. […]

By ICON Media Group, Heart-wrenching images have been streaming out of the Middle East in the last few weeks, showing refugee families fleeing for their lives from the last remaining ISIS stronghold in Syria. Among the displaced are thousands of traumatized children. Through a unique and dangerous effort, one US-based […]

By Taxpayer Foundation of Oregon, A bill in the Oregon House of Representatives (HB 3268) would essentially abolish the death penalty in the state with only one exception—for terrorists who kill two or more people.  At the same time a major Oregon newspaper is asking lawmakers to send the issue […]

By Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspectives Ministries, Sandy Oregon The Houston Chronicle released the first of a three-part series titled “Abuse of Faith: 20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reform.” Below are a few excerpts from the article—though please read it for yourself. (And remember, […]

Ignatius Press, From one of the people in the whole world who knows G.K. Chesterton best comes KNIGHT OF THE HOLY GHOST, a short history of one of the most prophetic and prolific writers in history. Dale Ahlquist, president of the American Chesterton Society, has helped to bring about a […]

By Oregon Faith News Note, Oregon women are giving birth to fewer babies than their counterparts in many states at a time when the nation’s birth rate has dropped to a 30-year low. A study of the 2017 data from the National Center for Health Statistics showed that women in […]

By Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspectives Ministries, Sandy Oregon My friend Kerby Anderson, host of the Point of View radio talk show, is a veteran spokesman for causes honoring to Christ. I was very touched by what he wrote below and asked if we could share it. Let’s take it to […]

By Ignatius Press, Sohrab Ahmari was an Iranian teenager living under the ayatollahs when he decided that there was no God. Nearly two decades later and as an American citizen, he would be baptized and confirmed into the Roman Catholic Church. In FROM FIRE BY WATER, he recounts this unlikely […]

Senator Ron Wyden Press Release, U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Or) and John Cornyn introduced the Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act, which would exempt civil damages, restitution, and other monetary awards given to human trafficking survivors from federal income taxes. “Human trafficking survivors are faced with unfair and unnecessary obstacles […]

Oregon Optimist blog, Representative Rick Lewis, R-Silverton, has proposed legislation that will change the number of hearing aids Oregon Health Plan (OHP) grants. Patients who were granted only one hearing aid, every five years, will now have the hope and ability to hear in both ears. Hearing aids have been […]