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Global Campaign to Highlight Poverty, Corruption
A coalition of Christian groups, including the Bible Society, is launching a new campaign aimed at highlighting global poverty and corruption. "$1 trillion goes missing each year due to corruption," said Dion Forster...
Baptist Leader: Humanitarian Crisis Worsens in Syria
Lebanese Baptist leader Nabil Costa spoke with EthicsDaily.com over the weekend about the worsening crisis in Syria, which he called "very painful." "From the humanitarian and social aspect, it is very difficult and it...
What Does a Hero Look Like?
A sermon delivered by Robert Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., on August 5, 2011. Communion Devotion Luke 23:33-49 Let’s talk about heroes and villains this morning. They have been around ever...
What Is It?
A sermon delivered Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark., on August 5, 2012. Exodus 16:2-15; John 6:24-35 What did you have for breakfast this morning? What do you plan to have for...
Hunger, Bread, and Life
A sermon delivered by Wendell Griffen, Pastor, New Millennium Church, Little Rock, Ark., on August 5, 2012. Exodus 16:2-15 2The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness....
Cleaning house
I bought three hours' worth of a house cleaning service on Living Social some months back because the price seemed right and I figured it would come in handy. I keep the house pretty straight, but I figured there are...
What’s The Most Important Part of Church?
Tom Morris enjoys bringing the insights he has mined from the disciplines of philosophy and theology to bear on the challenges and opportunities of leadership. In his book, "If Aristotle Ran General Motors," Morris...
“Beasts of the Southern Wild”
At the end of John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath," Ma Joad sums up the life of the poor and downtrodden. "Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out," she says. "But we keep a comin'....
How Political Campaigns, Revival Services Are Alike
Election campaigns are like revival services. You can't have them all the time, since what election campaigns and revival services are about is some evaluation of what's happened before and what's possible going...
Why I don’t do dueling Bible verses
By John Pierce There is a popular game I no longer play: dueling Bible verses. It gets going whenever a controversial subject arises — such as homosexuality or gender equality. It has been played in the past over...
Ethical Lessons from Everyday Lives of the Poor
I've returned from Indonesia; and yet, my experience there continues to inform my theological thinking. Shortly before I left, I spent the day in one of the city's poorest and most populated neighborhoods located on...
Is It Impossible to Eliminate Racial Identity?
I'm not searching for a middle ground, an either/or, both/and solution to race. I don't believe in compromise when it comes to the matter, for the loss is too great if race remains in our lives. No one will win; no one...
Mormons “ From Missouri Expulsion to Presidency
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, popularly known as the Mormon Church, began in 1830 after Joseph Smith claimed to have received special revelations from God. The following year, many of his followers...
Those people
A different take on "Those People," from Zazzle.comIt occurs to me that the mass shootings that have made such headlines lately are extreme instances of a common practice that we would do well to think about: the ease...
Where Worship and Justice Meet
Having the privilege for a few days of watching the sunrise over an ocean horizon has been a good reminder of the vastness of sea and sky and the beauty of nature's artistry. My normal surroundings of city, suburbs and...
Texas Baptists Reach Out to Human Trafficking’s Victims
Not too long ago, I ran into Kyle Henderson, pastor of First Baptist Church of Athens, Texas, in a downtown Dallas hamburger place. We had a lot of things to talk about, but I remember his energy and focus when he said...
U.S. Should Sell Bradley Tomatoes, Not Bradley Tanks
While surfing cable channels in mid-July to catch up on the macabre situation in Syria, I caught the last 90 seconds of a report on a U.S.-funded "weapons fair." "The Business of Kaboom" featured a handful of foreign...
Attack on Sikh Community Is Attack on Faith Community
We were jolted by news of another deadly mass shooting. This time the location was suburban Milwaukee, Wisc. The victims were worshippers at the local Sikh temple. Six members of that community, along with the shooter,...
Bob Dylan Was Right: We All Serve Somebody
There's no such thing as absolute freedom. Bob Dylan was right: You're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed You're gonna have to serve somebody Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you're gonna have...
Survey: Few Connect to Faith Community by Social Media
Most Americans still are not using social media technology to connect with their faith communities, according to a Washington-based research institution focused on religion and public life. "Overall, Americans report...
A Baptist on Mars
NASA artist's conception of the Curiosity roverIt was nail-biting time about 1:15 a.m. Monday morning, as engineers in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory control room gathered to monitor the Mars Science Laboratory (aka...