by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 29, 2017 | News
Baptist groups are working to assess needs and to formulate relief plans as Hurricane Harvey continues to pour water into an already-flooded southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. Texas Baptist Men (TBM), which partners with the Baptist General Convention of Texas...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 28, 2017 | News
The number of U.S. teens dying from drug overdose is on the rise, according to a report released in mid-August by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). From 1999 to 2007, the CDC tracked a steady and significant increase in drug-related deaths of U.S....
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 23, 2017 | News
Renee Embree is director of youth and family ministries with the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada and the director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry Studies at Acadia Divinity School in Nova Scotia. 1. Where did you grow up? Mostly in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 22, 2017 | News
Pope Francis addressed again the “lamentable situation” of migrants and refugees, calling global Christians to commit to concrete action “at every stage of the migratory experience.” Though published Aug. 21, his statement was written on the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 17, 2017 | News
Religious freedom restrictions lead to “instability, human rights abuses and violent extremism,” the U.S. State Department emphasized in its annual International Religious Freedom Report, released Tuesday, Aug. 15. “Conditions in many parts of the...