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Pastoral Students in Congo Glimpse God’s Provision
Almost every rural pastor in Congo has a second or third job to make ends meet. Rural parishes are not known for providing a living wage for their pastors. Family fields, gardens, livestock and fishponds put food on...
What’s Next?
EthicsDaily.com has pivoted toward a new future—more intentionally providing faith content for TV. Our decision was quickened by an opportunity with a new African-American TV network—Soul of the South Network (SSN)—to...
TV Network Will Broadcast EthicsDaily Documentaries
EthicsDaily.com is coming again to your television, this time courtesy of a new network that focuses on African Americans. "Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism," EthicsDaily.com's award-winning documentary, will be...
June 22, 2014
Presbyterian Church USA Votes to Divest from Companies Supplying Israel (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) GOP Stars Woo Evangelical Christians on Social Issues (Columbus Dispatch) Rand Paul Defends 'Unborn' as Republicans Rush...
June 21, 2014
The Largest Religion in Every State Other than Christianity (Business Insider) Bizarre Word Spray-Painted on Churches Throughout Jefferson County (AL.com) Miracle of Bible Stopping Bullet Was a Myth, Police Say (CNN)...
Charitable Giving Increases, Except to Houses to Faith
Charitable giving increased in 2013, even as donations to churches declined. According to Giving USA's annual report, $335.17 billion was given in 2013, a 4.4 percent increase in giving from 2012. "While charitable...
The Pros and Cons of Genetically Modified Foods
Scientists have sought to address a global vitamin-A deficiency by creating genetically engineered bananas. They will arrive in the U.S. soon for their first human trial. Washington Post reporter Abby Phillip revealed...
For One Young Mom, Human Trafficking is All Too Real
Human trafficking is far removed from the everyday lives of most of us. We might hear about it on the news through reports of young girls being rescued from nightclubs run by gangsters or of a trafficking ring being...
July 20, 2014
GA Baptists' Brewton-Parker College Loses Accreditation, Challenges SACS Finding (Brewton Parker Press Release) Religious Conservatives to Judge Republicans (Huffington Post) Republicans: Obama Must Defend Christian...
Investment Strategy
A sermon by Bob Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky. June 15, 2014 Matthew 28:16-20 This morning our attention is focused upon the final words of Matthew’s gospel. Jesus spoke these words to his...
A Cup of Inspiration and Courage
A sermon by Bob Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky. June 1, 2014 Communion Sunday John 17:1-11 This morning our attention is drawn to the final words Jesus spoke before he and the disciples left the...
The Church Outside the Walls
A sermon by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ar. June 15, 2014 Psalm 8:1-9; Matthew 28:16-20 May I remind you of a story I have told before? Chances are, a number of you weren’t around...
Willing the World into Existence
A sermon by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo. Trinity Sunday Genesis 1:1-2:4a May 26, 2002 Psalm 8; Matthew 28:16-20; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 In reading the drama of creation in Genesis,...
Symphonic Spirit
A sermon by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo. Pentecost Sunday I Corinthians 12:3b-13 June 8, 2014 Acts 2:1-21, Psalm 104:24-34, 35b, John 20:19-23 It is 50 days past the Jewish holiday...
Ben McDade of Baptists Today returning to university development
MACON, Ga. — Ben McDade, executive vice president for development and marketing for Baptists Today, has accepted a position with Brenau University in Gainesville, Ga., leading development programs, effective July...
Human Rights Trace Back to Start of Old Testament
Public Radio International is reporting that the United Nations Human Rights Committee is investigating claims by ISIS that it has killed 1,700 captured prisoners of war. ISIS stands for the Islamic State in Iraq and...
Sarajevo’s Peace Conference Falls 100 Years After WWI
One hundred years ago, on June 28, two shots killed Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife. It happened in Sarajevo and it marked the beginning of World War I, the Great War, the...
Keeping Secular Politics Out of the Sanctuary
Secular partisan division is increasingly occupying and harming congregations. So observed a mainstream North Carolina pastor, who told me last week that "politics is destroying the church." Only a few years ago, one...
July 19, 2014
National Baptist Convention Draws 40,000 to Dallas, Including Civil Rights Leaders (Dallas Morning News)Survey Shows a Snapshot of Religious Affiliation in Texas (Houston Chronicle)Pastor's Shift on Homosexuality...
Into the thicket …
With a boatload of writing projects staring me in the face, I got up early this morning and ... went blackberry picking. Sometimes that's just what has to be done, or what begs to be done. When there's a two-acre patch...
A Better Way: Choosing Unity Over Division
Day by day, in the decisions we make and the actions we take, we are choosing whether to live in the desert of division or in the promised land of peace; in the wilderness of exclusion or the paradise of acceptance; in...