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Inmates Sal Rojas and Juan Castillo listen to a sermon from Riding High Ministries at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, Ore.

Sermon from the mount: Breaking horses ministry’s metaphor for changing lives

Inmates Sal Rojas and Juan Castillo listen to a sermon from Riding High Ministries at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, Ore.

September 22, 2018, 6:00am Churches & Religion

Though Todd Pierce is used to breaking horses as he preaches sermons, he didn’t have to fight too hard with this one. Read story

John Bishop faces sentencing today in federal court in San Diego on drug smuggling charges.

John Bishop Part 6: Reflections from a single-wide trailer

John Bishop faces sentencing today in federal court in San Diego on drug smuggling charges.

September 21, 2018, 6:05am Churches & Religion

The newsroom phone rang Thursday, Sept. 13 just before noon. It was Andrea Madison, a former Living Hope Church congregant and a friend of former pastor John Bishop. After catching wind of The Columbian’s impending series of articles on Bishop and the church, Madison, 61, wanted the opportunity to tell… Read story

Congregation Am Chai’s Torah, loaned to the synagogue from its late Rabbi who rescued it from concentration camp survivors in Poland after World War II, is readied Sept. 9 for the High Holidays held at St. Raymond de Penafort Catholic Church in Mt. Prospect, Ill.

‘They’ve learned to stick together’: After more than 45 years, synagogue to close

Congregation Am Chai’s Torah, loaned to the synagogue from its late Rabbi who rescued it from concentration camp survivors in Poland after World War II, is readied Sept. 9 for the High Holidays held at St. Raymond de Penafort Catholic Church in Mt. Prospect, Ill.

September 21, 2018, 6:00am Churches & Religion

In a community room of a church in Mount Prospect, members of Am Chai Synagogue hung the Star of David banner, set up the ark and positioned rows of chairs for the hundreds of people expected to attend Rosh Hashana services in celebration of the Jewish new year. Read story

Open house Sunday at rebuilt United Church of Christ

September 21, 2018, 5:57am Churches & Religion

 Vancouver United Church of Christ, also known as First Congregational United Church of Christ, is hosting a public open house to celebrate moving into its remodeled building more than two after it was burned by arson. Read story

Pastor Neal Curtiss, one of two lead pastors at Living Hope church, at a Sunday service in July.

John Bishop Part 5: Finding new paths

Pastor Neal Curtiss, one of two lead pastors at Living Hope church, at a Sunday service in July.

September 20, 2018, 6:05am Churches & Religion

At 5:25 a.m. Dec. 11, John Bishop drove a gray Volkswagen Jetta, bearing California license plates, into commuter lane No. 6 at the international port of entry in San Ysidro, Calif. He told a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer he was headed to Chula Vista, Calif., with nothing to… Read story

Church officials: Victims with pre-2002 deals free to speak

September 19, 2018, 10:31am Churches & Religion

Sex abuse victims required to keep quiet by settlement agreements can speak publicly about their ordeals, New Jersey Catholic Church officials said Tuesday. Read story

“I couldn’t shield him from an addiction to heroin. I couldn’t protect him from the law. I couldn’t shield him from jail. And sadly, he couldn’t spare himself either, because he had never learned about consequences of poor choices when he was growing up,” Bishop wrote.

John Bishop Part 4: Blue light special brings new crises

“I couldn’t shield him from an addiction to heroin. I couldn’t protect him from the law. I couldn’t shield him from jail. And sadly, he couldn’t spare himself either, because he had never learned about consequences of poor choices when he was growing up,” Bishop wrote.

September 19, 2018, 6:05am Churches & Religion

Securing $5 million to purchase the “promised land” was a huge leap of faith for John Bishop’s flock, but there was no turning back. Read story

A page in one of four books written by Argentine criminal defense attorney Marcelo Sancinetti, with a sentence that reads in Spanish: “The church judges with its own exclusive right,” in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2010 Pope Francis commissioned the four volume, 2,000-plus page forensic study of a legal case against a convicted priest that concluded he was innocent, that his victims were lying and that the case never should have gone to trial.

Pope role in study of Argentine sex abuse case in spotlight

A page in one of four books written by Argentine criminal defense attorney Marcelo Sancinetti, with a sentence that reads in Spanish: “The church judges with its own exclusive right,” in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2010 Pope Francis commissioned the four volume, 2,000-plus page forensic study of a legal case against a convicted priest that concluded he was innocent, that his victims were lying and that the case never should have gone to trial.

September 18, 2018, 9:45am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis’ role in Argentina’s most famous case of priestly sex abuse is coming under renewed scrutiny as he faces the greatest crisis of his papacy over the Catholic Church’s troubled legacy of cover-up and allegations he himself sided with the accused. Read story

Living Hope Church pastor John Bishop got up close and personal with a tiger named Sundar at a service in 2007, during the last of the ARK series, "Risk of Moving." From left are Dan Stockdale of Harriman, Tenn., left, and Rick Kelly of San Bernadino, Calif., owner of Amazing Animal Productions.

John Bishop Part 3: ‘Can’t have two tigers on the hill’

Living Hope Church pastor John Bishop got up close and personal with a tiger named Sundar at a service in 2007, during the last of the ARK series, "Risk of Moving." From left are Dan Stockdale of Harriman, Tenn., left, and Rick Kelly of San Bernadino, Calif., owner of Amazing Animal Productions.

September 18, 2018, 6:02am Churches & Religion

Pastor John Bishop sauntered across Living Hope Church’s stage and ran his hand along the side of an adult Bengal tiger. He gave it a few pats. Read story

John Bishop, former pastor of the Living Hope Church, performs baptisms during Easter services in 2006.

John Bishop Part 2: ‘The best show in town’

John Bishop, former pastor of the Living Hope Church, performs baptisms during Easter services in 2006.

September 17, 2018, 6:00am Churches & Religion

Before it became an edgy, headline-grabbing house of God, Living Hope Church was just a group of friends who worshipped together. Read story