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Profiles in Goodwill: Ed Hogan
Ed Hogan is the pastor of The Path to the Cross Church in Houston and is a board member of the Baptist Center for Ethics. Ed's articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here. 1. Where did you grow...
Is the New Testament More Important Than the Old?
Imagine that you and a friend decide to go see a movie, but you misread the schedule and arrive an hour into the film. Would you still go in and watch the last half of the movie? Of course not. No one jumps into the...
Baptist layman Truett Cathy was ‘Grandpa’ to many
By John Pierce Several years ago my phone rang and it was Truett Cathy. He was very unhappy. The state of Georgia, he felt, was keeping at-risk children in bad situations and making it more difficult for him to get...
How Common Core Can Teach Collaboration to Your Church
My school district has adopted a new mathematics curriculum that is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, which set forth what a student should have learned by the end of each year in school. While the...
Why We Need to See Through Others’ Eyes
Parallel images of barbaric atrocities committed by extremists and of health workers risking and giving their lives in the effort to control the Ebola pandemic raise the penetrating question of who we are and who we...
Profiles in Goodwill: Beth Fogg
Beth Fogg works with Mission Resource Development in the Office of the General Secretary of American Baptist Churches, USA, and is a board member of the Baptist Center for Ethics. 1. Where did you grow up? I grew up in...
September 11, 2014
Texas Textbooks Tout Christian Heritage (Politico) Santorum: Make Secularism a Religion So We Can Ban it in Schools (Mediaite) Pennsylvania County Council Shoots Down 'In God We Trust' Bill (CBS Pittsburg) Detroit...
Rockin’ with Ruby
You've seen the signs, if you're of a certain age and have travelled the big roads and the back roads of the Southeast or Midwest: black roofs on red barns, mostly, emblazoned with "See Rock City." I've read that a...
Profiles in Goodwill: Michael Leathers
Michael Leathers is the copy editor at EthicsDaily.com, the media relations and communications editor in the public relations department at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois, and a script writer for...
National Religious Broadcasters Network Will Air EthicsDaily.com Documentary
One of the largest Christian TV networks—that reaches 45 million homes—will air EthicsDaily.com's latest documentary. The prison-and-faith documentary, "Through the Door," released in January 2014 by the...
4 Reasons Your Church Can Stagnate and Die
One of the more celebrated churches in the book of Revelation is that of Philadelphia in modern-day Turkey. This community of believers was commended by Jesus as those who "kept my word and have not denied my name" and...
September 10, 2014
One Army Under God? (The Economist) UT Library Acquires President Andrew Jackson's Family Bible (Chattanooga Times Free Press) Meet the Baptist Reporter Who Accidentally Made Chick-fil-A the Face of Homophobia (Salon)...
A chocolate croissant and the circle of life
By John Pierce Friday morning’s breakfast was the same as usual — egg and cheese on a whole grain bagel and hazelnut coffee — but different. Sitting in Panera Bread in Chattanooga, I was contemplating the previous...
6 Lessons I Learned Returning to the Pastorate
Bill Wilson recently asked me to reflect on my transition last summer from denominational work back to the pastorate, when I became the pastor of First Baptist Church of Bristol, Virginia. Particularly, I reflected on...
Profiles in Goodwill: Joel Emerson
Joel Emerson is the web editor at EthicsDaily.com and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 1. Where did you grow up? I was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and grew up in west Tennessee and...
“Duck Dynasty” Patriarch’s Phil Robertson Plan for ISIS Sounds Like Holy War
How should we deal with ISIS, an Islamic terrorist army who beheaded an American journalist, threatened Iraqi Christians with conversion or death, and slaughtered Middle Eastern Muslims? President Obama has promised to...
September 9, 2014
S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A Founder, Dies (CNN) Chick-fil-A Founder, Baptist Layman, Truett Cathy Dies (Associated Baptist Press) Chick-fil-A Founder Credited His Success to Christian Principles (National Public...
4 Ways to Keep Your Political Speech Civil
The book of James diagnoses one of our greatest inconsistencies as Christians. James 3:9-10 says, "With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God's likeness....
Profiles in Goodwill: Brian Kaylor
Brian Kaylor is a contributing editor for EthicsDaily.com and the communications and engagement leader for Churchnet in Missouri. Brian's news articles that have appeared on EthicsDaily.com are available here, his...
How to Reset the Margins of Your Life
One thing all pages of books and computer word processing programs have in common is the use of margins. Have you ever wondered, "Why have margins? Couldn't you get more words on the pages without them?" Just think of...
September 8, 2014
Jerry Young Elected National Baptist Convention President (Clarion-Ledger) Mormons, Southern Baptist Panel Among Churches Asking Supreme Court to Act on Utah Gay Marriage Case (Dallas Morning News) Christians Berate...