by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 3, 2015 | News
Government restrictions on religious freedom and social hostility toward religion saw a slight decline in 2013, a newly released report from Pew Research Center noted. These findings come one year after Pew reported a surge in religious hostility, which reached a...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 2, 2015 | News
Ronnie Brewer is senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Bristol, Virginia, and is a board member of the Baptist Center for Ethics. Ronnie’s articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here. 1. Where did you grow up? Midfield, Alabama – a...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 20, 2015 | News
States in the southern U.S. registered significantly higher weekly worship attendance than states in the northeast and northwest. Utah had the highest weekly worship attendance in 2014 at 51 percent, according to a recent Gallup survey. “Utah’s No. 1...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 13, 2015 | News
Human trafficking is a form of human slavery, said a Texas legislator at a press conference on the steps of the Texas Capitol in Austin on Thursday morning. Rep. Tan Parker (R-Flower Mound) emphasized that “human trafficking is human slavery,” that...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 12, 2015 | News
A sampling of 2015 State of the Church addresses by moderate Baptist pastors found common themes of emphasizing community and James’ call to “be doers of the word.” State of the Church addresses are messages designed to provide congregations a review...