Does Congress Suffer from Malignant Power?

Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) allegedly placed in a congressional spending bill that passed on Saturday a frightening provision allowing two committee chairmen and their staffs to look at any American citizen’s tax returns without any privacy safeguards. Chairmen...

Personal Word on Why We Need Your Help: Part 2

Yesterday I asked for reader support in part because we face declining revenue streams from two partner organizations at the very time that our productivity and constituency are expanding. We need to secure replacement funds for the declining support from the...

Personal Word on Why We Need Your Help: Part I

So far, I have proposed that the Baptist Center for Ethics will step up its public witness with a more prophetic and practical edge. We will do this by: –Advancing the global evangelicals’ campaign for the Micah Challenge. –Enabling our readers to...

Personal Word about BCE’s Expanded Public Witness

The Baptist Center for Ethics needs to step up its public witness and enter a larger national role. The Baptist Center for Ethics needs to step up its public witness and enter a larger national role. In shorthand, this means taking on the religious right more...

Critiquing American Religion

American Christians are in a cultural war, a term that went out of popular favor after Pat Buchanan’s mean-spirited Republican Party speech in 1992. Regrettably, the phrase has returned with a new vengeance. Following President Bush’s re-election,...