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Portland, OR
Why You Should Eavesdrop on Your Neighbors 
What happened when Portland third-graders interviewed their elderly neighbors about their city's past.
May 10, 2012
Why Liberty Needs Justice: A Response to the Tea Party-Occupy Film
A real revival in America will include the 99 percent.
March 20, 2012
Freedom and Virtue: A Response to the Tea Party-Occupy Film
If Christians want to advance the common good, they should turn to their own hearts, not the government.
March 15, 2012
With Liberty or Justice for All: Inside the Occupy and Tea Party Movements
How can people who share the same faith embrace such different politics?
March 13, 2012
Church-'With': Small Churches Find Their Future in Neighborhood Renewal
The Rosewood Initiative, a merging of churches, police, and nonprofits in Portland, is finding their own peace by seeking their neighbors'.
February 21, 2012
A Native Faith: Richard Twiss Shapes Portland's Youth and Beyond
In a city still skeptical of white Christianity, Twiss's cross-cultural witness is gaining a hearing among citizens and leaders alike.
February 16, 2012
The Cost of Serving Portland—and Jesus—as an Oregon Politician
State Representative Jules Bailey, an unlikely Christian, has drafted some of the most innovative environmental legislation in the state.
January 12, 2012
The Gleaners: Giving More Than Food to the Working Poor
The Birches offer 600 Portland families—including my own—a path to financial freedom.
December 19, 2011
How to Abandon 'Homeless People'
With his bike-friendly nonprofit, C. J. Speelman offers a better way to address our friends who live outside.
December 16, 2011
Beauty and Need Collide: Portland in Photos
For two photographers from Imago Dei Community, loving their city means really seeing it.
December 2, 2011
100 Men Standing against Portland's Gangs
John Canda believes the best way to curb gang violence is to ask adults—especially men—simply to show up.
November 30, 2011
Before Saving the World, Go See Your Family
Shoshon and Stephanie Tama-Sweet on how a healthy marriage sustains their activism.
November 14, 2011
Re-'Placing' the Christian College
Why faith-based schools must root their mission in their own community.
November 14, 2011
Where Portland Church Planters Fear to Tread
MaryLou and Rusty Bonham, founders of Springwater, commit to the forgotten Lents neighborhood.
November 10, 2011
Art That Stops You in Your Tracks
Martin French, director of the Exile Poster Project, on the power of the public poster.
November 3, 2011
The Exile Poster Project: A Slideshow
Portland Christians confront their city’s sex trafficking problem with public art.
November 2, 2011
'All I Was Good for Was Sex'
Behind the mind-numbing statistics are stories of actual people living the horrors of being trafficked.
November 2, 2011
Portland's Quiet Abolitionists
Leading the liberal city's efforts to halt child trafficking is a network of dedicated Christians. Just don't go advertising it.
October 31, 2011
Christianity Today's City Project Celebrates Portland
The Friday launch party spotlighted Christians' labors of love in a post-Christian city.
October 27, 2011
Sex Trafficking: Beyond Storming Brothels
For Shoshon Tama-Sweet, working for the flourishing of his city comes at a great cost.
October 21, 2011
Creating Young Artists
For Laura Streib, cuts to arts programs meant getting involved in Portland public schools.
October 21, 2011
A City of Activists: An Interview with Rick McKinley
The Imago Dei Community pastor on how his city's culture of activism affects the local church.
October 20, 2011
Christian or Lobbyist? Yes!
As a lobbyist in Oregon, Stephanie Tama-Sweet believes that politics can't be black and white.
October 20, 2011
Enlisting Men in the Sex Trafficking Fight
Tom Perez, founder of Portland nonprofit EPIK, believes men have created the problem—and better men have to stop it.
October 20, 2011
Christian Music Concert Promoter Alleges Portland Christian Radio Monopoly
LMG Concerts, the concert promoter, claims in its suit that Salem Communications, which owns and operates about 100 radio stations, including stations in 23 of the top 25 markets, is using "monopoly control" that locks up the market for concerts in that city and many other U.S. metro areas. (ABC News)
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