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Many of the struggles of pastoral ministry go unseen. Along with the joys of serving our churches come the challenges of conflict, fear, and criticism. In the midst of these, pastors care for souls, preach the Word, and attempt to live healthy lives with our families and friends.On The Art of Pastoring, join Jared Wilson and Ronnie Martin as they reflect on their decades of experience in ministry, engaging in frank and vulnerable conversation on lessons learned and pathways discovered as the ...
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One of the hot phrases of the moment is "Christian Nationalism," generally attached to the belief that the United States was founded as a Christian country, and meant to stay that way. People who are non- or barely-Christian have cause to disagree, and the disagreements are frequent and frequently heated. Producer Rob Reiner and director Dan Partla…
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The Klamath River of 2024 is remarkably different from the Klamath River of last year, because of the massive dam removal project now well underway. When the project is finished, there will be no dams on the Klamath anywhere in California. The story is a bit different on one of the major tributaries of the Klamath, the Trinity River. The Trinity ju…
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Avengers assemble! And while we're at it, let's assemble the Justice League and the Teen Titans and the Fantastic Four. If you know anything about comic books, you get the references. Characters from these groups and others will be in evidence when the old Medford Comic Con emerges from the Phantom Zone and returns to life as Rogue Comic Con. Watch…
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Living on Oregon's South Coast absolutely has its charms, and the lack of population density is one of them. The flip side to the sparse population is limited options in health care and transportation. And then there's the additional matter of inequitable distribution of those options. South Coast Equity Coalition just received a grant from Seeding…
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If this year's elections set your teeth on edge, maybe you need a diversion, like back to an earlier election. But hmm... that one may also have set your teeth on edge. We travel back to the elections of 30 years ago, and our guide is Jack Miller, who teaches politics and political philosophy at Portland State University. He uses the real themes an…
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SOU President Rick Bailey wants to switch up the university's revenue structure for long-term stability. ( Courtesy of SOU / OPB) If you grow up poor or in a minority/underserved community, your chances of attending college are slimmer than for the general population. Which is why many campuses have federal TRiO Student Support Services programs, g…
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Lisa Wolpe in performance.(Jenny Graham / Oregon Shakespeare Festival) You know how, back in Williams Shakespeare's time, ALL of the parts were played by men, no matter the genders of the characters? Lisa Wolpe has been working for a while now to turn that on its head. It is entirely possible that Wolpe has played more of Shakespeare's male charact…
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Five days. That's all the time Oregon voters have to get their voter registrations in order, if they wish to vote in the May 21 primary election. If nothing has changed for the voter since last election, no action is required. But people who want to vote in the closed primaries for the two major political parties have to get their ducks in a row an…
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The Huwighurruk Post Baccalaureate Program Cal Poly Humboldt's home in Arcata is near many Native American people from several different tribes. The University of California-Davis has a medical school. So the two schools are combining obvious strengths and starting a program to get indigenous students pointed toward, and through, medical sch…
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The stories keep coming about students missing school, and a lot of it. Stay-at-home school during the COVID pandemic appears to be a factor in students and their parents not feeling a need to be in class on a regular basis. Chronic absenteeism--missing 10% of class time in an academic year--has zoomed across the country. In Oregon, it was nearly d…
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Park Music Beauty Daniel Sperry One man and his cello have now provided thousands of hours of musical enjoyment in Ashland's Lithia Park. Daniel Sperry plays his cello in the park for several hours at a time, usually five days a week. And now he's looking to launch a new generation of people providing music in public spaces, through the nonprofit P…
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The people who walked out of the Oregon Legislature most recently say they did it because their voices were not being heard and acknowledged. It's a common complaint from the rural parts of Oregon, especially east of the Cascades, in the state's vast high and dry country. That area may get drier still with the advance of climate change, and work is…
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What started as a project turned into an entire organization. Rogue Climate sprang from an effort to highlight how local action can have an impact on climate change, and it has stayed on the job for more than a decade now. But founder Hannah Sohl is leaving her role as Executive Director of the group, two weeks after Earth Day. With her at the helm…
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Little Hyatt Dam John Schuyler Just because a chunk of land is protected does not mean it is untouched, pristine wilderness. A great case in point is the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, straddling the state line southeast of Ashland. There's been plenty of development inside what is now the monument boundary, including the building of dams and …
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The comments have flowed pretty much nonstop since President Clinton first proposed creating the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Clinton created the monument under the Antiquities Act in 2000, and President Obama expanded the monument under the same law in 2017. Creation and expansion have both survived legal challenges, and now the Bureau of L…
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They're plenty cute when they're off in the distance, just being fuzzy bears. They're less cute when they come into your neighborhood and start turning over trash cans. And the cute is gone when you come face-to-face with a black bear. With spring warming up and people getting outside more, some bear-human interactions are all but inevitable. So th…
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One week to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968, the president signed the Fair Housing Act into law. The date is commemorated annually by the naming of April as National Fair Housing Month. The federal government itself contributed to discrimination and segregation in housing, and it's been a hard legacy to undo. Just how …
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It's a dirty, sweaty job, but somebody's got to do it. And you might be surprised by how fulfilling those dirty, sweaty people find the work to be. Siskiyou Mountain Club takes its Wilderness Corps crew into its namesake mountains to perform maintenance on trails in very remote areas, and now a documentary film shows just what the work is like. "A …
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You can attend a concert or visit an art gallery anytime. But the edgier stuff? That's a rarer treat, and the Oregon Fringe Festival returns to deliver the treats in the Ashland area, April 24th through 28th. OFF celebrates freedom and experimentation in the arts, even in the places where art is delivered. We get a quick rundown of this year's even…
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When you think about it, every day on our planet is technically Earth Day, but we make the official designation on April 22nd. Billions of people across the country will celebrate our birth planet and the need to take better care of it. Earth Day Oregon brings together dozens of nonprofit groups and legions of volunteers, combining them with busine…
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