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October 2, 2014
Texas GOP Lawmaker Compares 'Spiritual Battle' Against Religion to Holocaust (Huffington Post) National Review Writer Calls for Hanging Women Who Have Abortions (RH Reality Check) Tenn. Baptist Convention Supports...
The challenge of gospel hospitality
Does the world see Christianity as a friendly and hospitable faith? We’d like to think so, but the truth is that many people perceive Christians primarily as judgmental folk who are focused on the afterlife and care...
Jimmy Carter Turns 90 Today
The 39th president of the United States was born on Oct. 1, 1924, so today is Jimmy Carter's 90th birthday. In spite of the many difficulties and widespread criticism during his presidency, he is the best ex-president...
Profiles in Goodwill: Bill Wilson
Bill Wilson is president of the Center for Healthy Churches in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Bill's articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here, and his Skype interviews are available here and...
7 Bible Words for Evangelicals and Pentecostals
Evangelicals and Pentecostals were missing from the Interfaith Summit on Climate Change prior to the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit. One or two "evangelical" signatories on the statement calling for divestment from...
October 1, 2014
NFL: Ref Botched Call on Player's Muslim Prayer (CNN) Longtime Former Pastor of Culpeper Baptist Dies (Star Exponent, VA) Expanded Purpose for BGCT Annual Meeting Proposed (Baptist Standard) Bible Museum Under...
Jesus’ Litmus Test: How Do You React to Opposition?
Have you ever noted how we spontaneously react to a perceived threat? Faced with a threat, our primal instincts tend to take over and we instantly freeze over and begin to shut all the doors opening to warmth,...
Profiles in Goodwill: Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Grace Ji-Sun Kim is a visiting researcher at Georgetown University, a member of the World Council of Church's working group on climate change and the author of six books. Grace's articles that have appeared on...
Why Climate Change Requires an Ethics of Urgency
Most of us seem to live somewhere between Chicken Little's "The sky is falling!" and Rabbi Gamaliel's counsel to "wait and see" (Acts 5:33-39) on the theological and spiritual validity of the emerging Christian...
September 30, 2014
Bible Verse Questioned on New Football Field Monument (WSB-TV, GA) Plans to Demolish Former Historic Pittsfield Church Pulled (TWC News) LDS Church Producing Film for Priesthood Restoration Site (Herald Extra, UT)...
A love story (almost)
If life were to insist that I live full-time in a city and I could pick, Seattle would be at the top of my list. I wouldn't say I'm in love with Seattle, but I am a bit infatuated with the bustling metropolis on the...
3 Ways You Can Live by the Compass, Not the Clock
If the clock dictates, your life is consumed with the immediate and pressing issues of the moment. Clock life is focused on short-term results. If the clock rules, you find yourself racing from event to event in a mad...
Profiles in Goodwill: Joe LaGuardia
Joe LaGuardia is the senior pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Conyers, Georgia. Joe's articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here. 1. Where did you grow up? I was born in Staten Island, New...
Forcing New Ministry Methods into Old Structures
In a recent faculty senate meeting at Central Baptist Theological Seminary, President Molly Marshall referred to Matthew 9:17 in her devotional: "Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the...
September 29, 2014
Faith Movies Go Mainstream With Nicolas Cage in 'Left Behind' (New York Post) Paul, Cruz Jockey for Backing from Christian Voters (NBC News) Doctor Convicted of Using Phony Church for Tax Shelter (Mississippi Business...
September 27, 2014
South Fla. Jews Celebrate Rosh Hashanah at Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale (Local 10) Hogs Creating Safety Concern at Sugar Land Church (Click2Houston) Republicans Rally Behind 'Religious Liberty' as Evangelical...
Why Your Church Can Disagree and Still Be United
Are Baptists a peaceable people? Do we live together in the reconciled love of Christ? Is our gospel of grace demonstrated in our common life? Well ... sometimes. There are many congregations that are laboratories of...
I Survived a Short Term Mission Trip to Honduras!
This past summer, as I waited for my plane in Tegucigalpa, I browsed one of the airport's many gift shops looking for something for my 14-year-old son and found, among the soccer jerseys and dried toads, a bright...
Profiles in Goodwill: Dennis Bickers
Dennis Bickers is a resource minister with the American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky. Dennis' articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here. 1. Where did you grow up? I grew up on farms...
September 26, 2014
Why Obama is Planning to Use Religion to Fight ISIS (Think Progress) American Legion Joins Fight to Keep 'God' in the Pledge of Allegiance (NJ.com) Immigrant Who Hid in Oregon Church Gains Support (ABC News) White...
What It Takes to Model Humility
Few passages in the New Testament rival the great Christ hymn of Philippians, which offers a three-stage Christology: pre-existence, incarnation and exaltation. Theologians just love this kind of symmetry! In just a...