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Why Most U.S. ‘Nones’ Remain Unaffiliated from Religion
U.S. adults who are atheists, agnostics or unaffiliated with any religious teaching cited “questioning religious teachings” as the many reason they don’t subscribe to any religion.
August 9, 2018
Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media (Daily Beast) The Russian Connection: When Franklin Graham Met Putin (RNS) Church Charges Against Attorney General Sessions Dropped (CNN) A Kind...
Profiles in Goodwill: Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson is coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida and Caribbean Islands.
Finding Hope Even When You Feel Stuck in the Middle
Many young people today lack a belief that things can and will get better. While they have great hopefulness for a better world, they have little confidence that things will get anything but worse.
Baptists to Hold Event to Counter White Supremacist Rally
Baptist leaders will host an event on Aug. 12 to counter a white supremacist rally set to take place in Washington, D.C., on the same day – one year after the Charlottesville clash.
2 New Series to Focus on Engaging Next Generation
Two new series aimed at engaging the next generation will soon launch on EthicsDaily.com – one focused on high school and college writers, the other on seminarians and first-time ministers.
Will CBF Continue to Be a Fellowship of Advocacy?
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has been a voice for the “silenced ones” in society. As the CBF transitions to new leadership, may they continue to nourish this fellowship of advocacy.
What Comic-Con Can Teach Your Church About Missions
As other nations are clamoring for movies and other pop culture from the U.S., the most sought-after exports often aren’t wrapped in “Americanisms.” A lesson for the U.S. church, perhaps?
August 7, 2018
Mike Pence’s Moral Case for Removing a President From Office (CNN) Trump Bible Study to Join Troubled Willow Creek Leadership Gathering (Right Wing Watch) Willow Creek Investigates Hybels as Pastor Quits Over New...
Why I Support EthicsDaily.com / Baptist Center for Ethics
My support for EthicsDaily.com / Baptist Center for Ethics means more than providing resources for an institution. It’s a way of strengthening a community of fellow travelers.
2 Tennessee Churches Work to Bridge Racial Divisions
Two Tennessee churches – one predominantly black, the other white – with a sometimes uneasy history of racial tension worked together to begin breaking barriers. How about yours?
A True Patriot – and Christian – Opposes Nationalism
Nationalism means putting country above humanity, while patriotism means putting humanity ahead of country and self. We must never allow the former to be equated with the latter.
August 6, 2018
Interfaith Text to Replace Bible at Wyoming Air Force Base Memorial (Baptist Joint Committee) He’s a Superstar Pastor. She Worked for Him and Says He Groped Her Repeatedly, (New York Times) How a Faith-Based Movie...
Dust (to dust) and home on the range
By John D. Pierce Spending time in the American West takes me back to my childhood love of all things cowboy. While riding through expansive Hayden and Lamar valleys in Yellowstone National Park recently, I found...
The cost of not thinking ahead
I had the best of intentions, planting that tree, 24 years ago. I'm a sentimental sort, sometimes perhaps overly so, and I was looking for ways to symbolically remember my young daughter Bethany, who had fallen victim...
Beirut: Heartache and Hope – Part 2
More than 1.5 million Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon since 2011. However, people like Imam Imad Enchassi – and the nun who taught him as a boy – have left bright candles for all to follow.
The Words You Say – or Type – Reveal Your Character
What we say is who we are. Words sprouting from hate, fear and resentment encapsulate toxins with a long afterlife. Words offered as gifts of peace, however, are like seeds sown in hope.
Many Protestants Taught – And More Embrace – ‘Prosperity Gospel’
Many U.S. Protestant and non-denominational churchgoers hear a “prosperity gospel” from the pulpit, including 41 percent of Baptist respondents, a LifeWay report says.
August 3, 2018
The Unexpected Relationship Between U.S. Evangelicals and Russian Orthodoxy (Christian Century) Study: US Roman Catholic Orders Overwhelmingly Back Women Deacons (Virginian-Pilot) Americans are Far More Religious than...
Many Skip Religious Services to Practice Faith in Other Ways
What’s the leading reason that more than one out of three U.S. adults don’t attend religious services regularly? They practice their faith in other ways, a study found.
Why Most U.S. Christians Prefer Their No-Cost Religion
Have U.S. Christians forgotten our historic commitment to taking the gospel to the whole world, especially when that world is coming to them? Many comfortable Christians find the cost too high.