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Why Some Christians Desire a Convenient Faith
I experienced one of those moments recently in which you know what's about to happen is going to be important for you. You don't know why, but you have a sense that you're going to experience a transformative moment....
Ebola’s West African Survivors Face Discrimination
As Liberia makes gradual progress toward the eradication of Ebola, there is another emerging challenge for all Liberians and for people around the world. Something striking and humiliating that can be called "Ebola...
Profiles in Goodwill: Rupen Das
Rupen Das is director of the master of religion in Middle Eastern and North African studies at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut, Lebanon. In January 2015, he will begin a new position as consultant for...
Down and dirty …
Friday's activities provided yet more evidence that Nurturing Faith Experiences are deep, wide, and rich. When we take people to Israel and the West Bank, we make sure they get their money's worth. Not only do we see...
Profiles in Goodwill: Brock Ratcliff
Brock Ratcliff is a minister at Madison Chapel in Madison, Mississippi. He also teaches mathematics and computer science at Clinton Alternative School in Clinton, Mississippi. Brock's articles that have appeared on...
Jonah’s Problem: A God Who Won’t Do As He’s Told
You only understand Jonah if you've learned to hate, if life experience has educated you in heartfelt, instinctive, focused hostility. And you only understand Jonah's God if you are prepared to unlearn hatred, and by a...
How Many Smaller Churches Can Keep Their Doors Open
I served a small, rural church as a bivocational pastor for 20 years before accepting a judicatory role that works with dozens of smaller churches as well as larger ones. I've also written eight books on bivocational...
November 14, 2014
Bible Edges out Darwin as “Most Valuable to Humanity' in Survey of Influential Books (Guardian) Attorney Threatens Legal Action Over Bible Controversy at Encinitas School (NBC San Diego) Air Force Updates Religious...
From top to bottom
Day six on the ground for Baptists Today pilgrims/learners in Israel and the West Bank took us around and through Jerusalem, from top to bottom. Due to some recent unrest, we had been uncertain about whether we could...
5 Dangerous Paths for Ministers Under Pressure
How quickly our conversations can go from theoretical to all-too-real. I spent a rewarding Wednesday in Tennessee recently on a retreat with 45 ministers and staff members thinking through the unique and profound...
Profiles in Goodwill: Helle Liht
Helle Liht is the assistant general secretary at the European Baptist Federation. Helle's articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here. 1. Where did you grow up? Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a...
Conversion: Aligning Our Lives with God’s Kingdom
Conversion is the central ethical message of Jesus and lies at the heart of evangelical faith and experience. For some, conversion is a slow, lifelong movement of the heart and will toward God. For others, it is a...
Smelling the camels … and the roses.
It's hard to go wrong when you get to spend half a day in Jerusalem and the other half in Bethlehem, as a group of traveling friends and supporters of Baptists Today learned today. We began with a visit to the Mount of...
November 12, 2014
Kentucky Baptists Break Ties with Louisville Church (Louisville Courier-Journal) 7 CEOs with Devout Religious Beliefs (Fortune) Tennessee Baptist Convention Elects Memphis Pastor its 1st Black President (Commercial...
Profiles in Goodwill: Matt Sapp
Matt Sapp is the pastor at Heritage Baptist Fellowship in Canton, Georgia. Matt's articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here. 1. Where did you grow up? Atlanta, Georgia, and Richmond, Virginia....
What Does It Mean If You Follow “The Way of Jesus”?
Why has following in "the way of Jesus" become a more popular descriptor of Christian discipleship than "following Jesus?" How did this happen and why? I've heard the phrase "the way of Jesus" used by people on all...
3 Reasons You Can Be Thankful During Bad Times
In a season of thanksgiving, am I the only one who finds it hard to be thankful for all things? Of course, I have plenty for which I am thankful. Some are big things – my salvation through Christ, my family, my...
Old, older, oldest
Friends and supporters of Baptists Today traveling in Israel and the West Bank worked their way from old to oldest today. We began with a stop at two relatively new churches (less than 100 years old) built over older...
How Ready Are You to Receive God’s Inclusive Love?
The Gospel of Matthew devotes several chapters to Jesus' prophecies and warnings about the coming reign of God. In Matthew 25:1-13, there is an amusing story of a late bridegroom, wise young women who had prepared for...
EthicsDaily.com Joins the #GivingTuesday Movement to “Get Out the Give”
EthicsDaily.com has joined the #GivingTuesday movement. This first-of-its-kind effort harnesses the collective power of a unique blend of partners – charities, families, businesses and individuals – to transform how...
Profiles in Goodwill: Martin Accad
Martin Accad is director of the Institute of Middle East Studies at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut. Martin's articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here, and his Skype interviews are...