by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 3, 2009 | General
Baptists have a long and storied history on the issue of race and racism. The Southern Baptist Convention was founded in 1845 largely over the issue of slavery. Northern Baptists favored the abolition of slavery, whereas Southern Baptists supported it. White Baptists...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 29, 2008 | News
The Baptist Center for Ethics elected three new board members and re-elected two current directors to three-year terms of service. The action expands the geographic representation and Baptist affiliation of BCE’s governing body. BCE’s newly elected directors include...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 5, 2008 | News
Two Baptist Democrats faced mixed results yesterday in congressional races for seats that have been long held by Republicans. Democrat Larry Kissell defeated Congressman Robin Hayes for North Carolina’s eighth congressional district seat, a seat that he narrowly...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 2, 2008 | News
Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) ran an advertisement last week accusing her challenger of being in league with “godless Americans.” The 30-second ad provoked a lawsuit, counter-ads and now a new ad from Dole, which appeared during Friday’s lunch hour,...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 21, 2008 | News, Opinion
The black church must make sure its own artistic voices are welcomed there, said panelists at a recent workshop on the church’s relationship to media and the arts. Music and film aren’t gifts, but “the box the gift comes in,” said Dana Reed, a...