by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 28, 2017 | News
Giving to religious organizations declined to 52 percent of U.S. adults in 2017, according to a Gallup report published on Dec. 21. This continues a 12-year trend. In 2005, a high of 64 percent of adults gave to religious charities, which declined to 59 percent by...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 26, 2017 | News
Candy Phillips, board member of the Baptist Center for Ethics, died Friday, Dec. 22 in Nashville. Candy Cheri Poole Phillips, 70, passed away after complications from cancer. (Read the obituary in the Tennessean.) “Her genteel manner, coupled with her keen...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 20, 2017 | News
Rick Bennett is field coordinator of the Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. 1. Where did you grow up? West Palm Beach, Florida, and Ellerbe, North Carolina. 2. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why? Luke 2:52. It reveals the faithfully...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 15, 2017 | News
A strong majority (90 percent) of U.S. adults will celebrate Christmas this year, down 2 percent from 2013, according to a Pew Research Center report released on Dec. 12. Forty-six percent of celebrants view the observance as “more of a religious holiday,”...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 14, 2017 | News
Intense religious expressions in the U.S. remain stable, while moderate expressions are in decline, according to sociologists Landon Schnabel of Indiana University Bloomington and Sean Bock of Harvard University. Their report, “The Persistent and Exceptional...
