Portland: Jesus' Favorite City

From USA Today:

Evangelism 2.0

Stereotypes simply don’t apply these days in Portland, Ore. A conservative Christian minister and an openly gay mayor of this progressive city provide a glimpse of what could be Christianity’s future. Welcome to “Jesus’ favorite city.”

By Tom Krattenmaker

PORTLAND, Ore. — This city, it would seem, is the last place where evangelical Christianity would show its brightest colors. The Rose City sports an ultrasecular reputation. The voting tendencies here are as blue as the 

Columbia River on a clear-sky day. Regional land and transportation planning is so progressive that conservative pundit

George Will has likened the Portland ethos to a disease, worrying in a column about it "metastasizing" to other parts of the country. And we have, of course, a gay, liberal mayor.

Yet a pair of City Hall officials and a famed international evangelist had the audacity to stand together at a Baptist church altar earlier this year and declare Portland "Jesus' favorite city"?

They did, and with their tongues only 90-something% in cheek.

Read the rest here

Yet a pair of City Hall officials and a famed international evangelist had the audacity to stand together at a Baptist church altar earlier this year and declare Portland "Jesus' favorite city"?

They did, and with their tongues only 90-something% in cheek.

Read the rest here