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Profiles In Goodwill: J.V. McKinney
J.V. McKinney, retired from a 38-year career with the YMCA of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Bristol, Tennessee, now enjoys taking photos for free for organizations that really make a difference, like the Baptist Center...
The Myth of the Rugged Individual
Do you know who invented the light bulb? If you said Thomas Edison, then you are only partially correct. The real story is more complicated. Other inventors had been making various forms of incandescent light bulbs for...
Needed and appreciated
By John Pierce Worthy causes abound. There are many and varied groups that benefit from our generous giving. Baptists Today is one such charitable organization where, as I often say, such gifts are greatly "needed and...
Why Churches Remain at Heart of Tackling Poverty
A while ago an atheist friend who also works with homeless people said to me, "My motives are purer than yours. I do this work simply to help people; you do it so you can get into heaven." I did my best to explain that...
Vocational Ministry Takes Toll on Many Ministers
The church is my people, and in the depth of my being I believe the church is the best hope for the world. I gladly take my place in the imperfect, idiosyncratic, international family called the church. I also know...
Profiles in Goodwill: Arthur Brown
Arthur Brown is the assistant director of the Institute of Middle East Studies based in Mansourieh, Lebanon. Arthur's articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here. 1. Where did you grow up? North...
December 1, 2014
Brown Family Pastor Delivers Sermon Days After Church Was Gutted (Washington Post) Boston Churches Continue to Mull Lessons of Brown Killing (Boston Globe) Houston Baptist Pastor Rejects ‘Post-Modern’ SBC Responses to...
Naming rights available …
It occurred to me that the week of Thanksgiving has become the week of names. It begins two days before with "Giving Tuesday," a relatively recent invention promoted by charities and other non-profits as a way to raise...
November 26, 2014
Ferguson Church Burning is White Supremacist Revenge Attack, Says Pastor (Christian Today) Protestors Flood Streets Across U.S. as Ferguson Dismay Spreads Coast to Coast (CNN) In Boston, Protestors Want Leaders to...
What Your Church Needs for Healthy Growth
Grady Nutt introduced us to a delightful word in his book, "Agaperos," a generation ago: "thanksliving." He blended two ideas into one integrated, complete whole in each chapter. In doing so, he taught us to play havoc...
What You Gain When You Choose to Give Thanks
I rolled out of bed at the 6:15 a.m. alarm and went outside to see the blood red moon in early October. This event promised to show the full moon eclipsed by the earth's shadow and turning red in the process. I stood...
Profiles In Goodwill: Darrell James
Darrell James is senior pastor of Culbertson Baptist Church (ABC-USA) in New Albany, Indiana, and associate resource minister for pastoral care at American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky. He is a longtime...
The Type of Leadership Ferguson Needs Now
The grand jury decision related to the shooting death of Michael Brown has been officially released. Officer Darren Wilson has been acquitted of all charges in the case. After the decision was announced people...
Profiles in Goodwill: Robin Sandbothe
Robin Sandbothe is the director of seminary relations for Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kansas, and has recently been elected to serve as one of the pastoral leadership team members for Englewood...
Fear-Based Politics, Religion Run Counter to Gospel
It was hard not to notice the appeals to fear and uncertainty in our recent campaign season. The more urgent the final stretch of the contests became, the more emphatic were the ominous suggestions that a vote for the...
Ebola Crisis Leads to Many Problems in Liberia
Liberia is presently a weeping nation. As I listen carefully to the voices of the voiceless in our nation, I am disappointed and disheartened by the Ebola crisis, which began in early March. Fighting the unseen disease...
November 25, 2014
Ferguson Police Officer Won't Be Charged in Fatal Shooting (Washington Post) Columbia Residents Will Gather at Second Baptist Church Following Announcement of Grand Jury Decision (Columbia Missourian) Most White...
Winding up to wind down
It took a 90-year-old man to breathe some real excitement into the typically staid meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion (SBL/AAR) going on in San Diego. That happens when...
Why Christians Should Care for the Weak
Donald Kraybill's book, "The Upside-Down Kingdom," is a modern Christian classic of social ethics. Its basic thesis, well supported from Christian Scripture, is that the kingdom of God is a social order of reverse...
Profiles in Goodwill: Israel Olofinjana
Israel Olofinjana is the minister of Woolwich Central Baptist Church in southeast London and the director of the Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World. Israel's articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com...
Christians Offer Differing Responses to Obama’s Immigration Action
President Barack Obama explained the executive actions he was taking to prevent the possible deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants during a primetime address on Thursday from the East Wing of the White...