by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Apr 26, 2011 | Authors, Communication, Community, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Faith. Culture. The Arts Connection, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Oregonian stories, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, Refugees
Published online at oregonlive.com April 25, 2011 Published print edition of The Oregonian April 26, 2011 By BY CORNELIA SEIGNEUR , Special to The Oregonian Gabe Lyons-Photo by Joey Ivansco Though Gabe Lyons grew up in a Christian family in Lynchburg, Va., and has...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Apr 22, 2011 | Children, Communication, Culture, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms
A 14-year-old girl in Bangladesh named Hena Akhter was raped by a married man and later she was charged with having an affair. CNN reports that the Imam from the local mosque where the Muslims worship sentenced the girl to 101 lashes in public. The public had already...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Feb 15, 2011 | Church, Community, Culture, Faith, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Outreach, Writing
I attended the monthly John 17:23 Network event last night. I heard about this gathering through Paul Louis Metzger, whom I met through various connections at Multnomah University, where I am an adjunct professor and where Paul teaches Christian theology and the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 10, 2010 | Community, Culture, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Outreach
He was the first Chinese citizen to receive the Nobel Peace prize but was absent from the ceremony. Instead, he sat in jail. Liu Xiaobo, a poet and literary critic, is a leader in China’s pro-democracy movement, and serving an 11- year prison term for his...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 8, 2010 | Church, Community, Community Service, Culture, Family Life, Justice, Life, Writing
To simplify Christmas this year and help people spend less, stop by the 2nd Annual Gift-Making-Idea Evening Thursday, December 9 at 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m., at Rolling Hills Community Church, 3550 SW Borland Road in Tualatin. . The event, inspired by Advent...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 30, 2010 | Culture, Faith, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms
She was merely trying to share a drink of water with her co-workers in the field, but they were not interested in water from a non-Muslim woman in Pakistan. The situation sparked an encounter, that led to accusations of blasphemy against a Pakistani Christian...
