Portland’s UNA Gallery is taking back Day of the Dead with performance art and celebration Having grown up in Mexico City, Portland gallery owner Mercedes Orozco fondly remembers celebrating Día de Muertos with her family and neighbors at the beginning of ...
27 Oct 2017 - Emily Green
The Rev. Adam Phillips will give a TEDx talk on inclusion, the foundation of his evangelical practice Pastor Adam Phillips began his sermon on white supremacy with a personal anecdote about walking through a slum in Ghana before arriving at a “door of no ...
29 Sep 2017 - Emily Green
The leader of Congregation Shir Tikvah convened the Portland Interfaith Clergy Resistance after Trump's election Rabbi Ariel Stone felt something ominous in the air. Across the sidewalk from protesters dressed in black and waving banners stood a bloc ...
15 Sep 2017 - Emily Green
Laila Hajoo, director of Islamic Social Services of Oregon State, says anti-Muslim rallies can have "trickle effect" In Portland, like the rest of the nation, displays of hatred against Muslims is on the rise. According to the Southern Poverty L ...
9 Jun 2017 - Elizabeth Buelow
‘It is always right to give help,’ Pope Francis says in his second interview with street papers Pope Francis has always had a special connection to those living on the street. So much so that last year, in Rome, where approximately 6,000 vulnerable, poor ...
16 Mar 2017 - Stefano Lampertico
Street Roots visits the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education to pose this question President Donald Trump exhibits the characteristics of a demagogue. His attacks on the media, fear mongering, overt lying and the way he plays on people ...
23 Feb 2017 - Emily Green
COMMENTARY | Political discourse should promote the common good Editor's note: The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an organization of Catholic women, sent the following letter to the 2016 presidential candidates, asking them to insert civi ...
25 Aug 2016 - Sister Joan Mar...
Climate-change expert Katharine Hayhoe, a scientist and a Christian, is on a mission to change the minds of faith-based climate change deniers Katharine Hayhoe never goes where she’s not invited, and when she accepts an invitation, she usually finds herse ...
19 Jun 2015 - Emily Green
My parents and the people I grew up around are kind, loving, caring people. Stereotypes are easy, but reality is always more complicated. I never learned hate from them, but there was a lot of fear. As Evangelicals, one of the things they feared most was ...
23 Jan 2014 - Peter Walker
On Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. PST, the global population was 7.12 billion people, and our population keeps growing. Every four-and-a-half days, one million more children are born. UN officials predict that by 2100, there may be 10.9 billion of us. That would be wo ...
14 Jan 2014 - Rosette Royale