February 17, 2018, 6:00am Churches & Religion
A wooden box carried an eagle feather and bone whistle, a gourd rattle and a feather fan — items that carry spiritual energy and are used in Native American religious ceremonies. Read story
February 17, 2018, 6:00am Churches & Religion
Alexa Scimeca-Knierim and Chris Knierim have snagged bronze medals as members of the U.S. figure skating team, and the husband-wife duo took on the world this week in the Olympic pairs competition. Read story
February 10, 2018, 6:02am Churches & Religion
Nick Foles might need to put his post-football plans on hold for a while. Read story
February 10, 2018, 6:00am Churches & Religion
Recently while walking out in our shrub steppe desert, I noticed that at least one species of sage has been trying to bloom tiny yellow blossoms. That was even before the recent rainstorms. Read story
February 8, 2018, 6:39pm Churches & Religion
John Bishop, who for nearly two decades led Vancouver’s Living Hope Church, pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge Thursday for trying to smuggle more than 280 pounds of marijuana into the country from Mexico. Read story
February 8, 2018, 9:48am Churches & Religion
President Donald Trump told a prayer breakfast Thursday that faith is “central to American life and liberty.” Read story
February 7, 2018, 10:07pm Churches & Religion
When a fire ripped through the Gorge last summer, Washougal sprang into action. The community center opened as an evacuation site and residents quickly pulled together emergency supplies. Fast-forward to winter, and the small city is preparing for the worst in a different way. Read story
February 7, 2018, 10:02pm Churches & Religion
It's the middle of winter, so St. Paul and St. Andrew Lutheran churches open their doors each night to house homeless people, as they have every winter for 15 years. A few other local churches shelter people on especially miserable nights. Two of those churches are also Lutheran. Read story
February 7, 2018, 9:56am Churches & Religion
The Vatican’s sex-crimes expert is changing plans and will fly to New York to take in-person testimony from a Chilean sex abuse victim after his pleas to be heard by Pope Francis were previously ignored, the victim told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Read story
February 5, 2018, 3:23pm Churches & Religion
Pope Francis received a victim’s letter in 2015 that graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused him and how other Chilean clergy ignored it, contradicting the pope’s recent insistence that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up, the letter’s author and members of Francis’ own sex- abuse commission… Read story
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