Using Facebook to Advance the Common Good

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series about using social media platforms to help EthicsDaily.com reach more people in our mission to challenge people of faith to advance the common good. With the advent of social media, advertising and...

How Do We Address Issues of Systemic Injustice?

A popular aphorism suggests that our checkbook reveals what we value most. As a tool for social analysis, this discloses much about what our society values. Recently, Major League Baseball’s Anaheim Angels renewed the contract of their star left fielder, Mike...

The Pros and Cons of Microfinance to Beat Poverty

“The poor will always be with you.” This somewhat dismal proclamation first appears in Deuteronomy 15 and is repeated in Matthew 26. These are weighty sources, so is it true that poverty must always exist? Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and winner...

Do You Balance Your Physical and Digital Worlds?

The advent of the Internet has placed the world at our fingertips, contributing to what journalist Thomas Friedman called the “flattening” of the world. Mobile devices with Internet access, such as smartphones and tablets, have made us more connected than...

Lent, Ash Wednesday: Why All the Fuss?

Having been raised in a non-liturgical Baptist church, the liturgical worship calendar, with its seasons and emphases, was not only unobserved but also unknown. I remember learning about Hanukkah at some point in my upbringing, but I cannot recall hearing about, much...