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Let’s Be Careful about the Reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act
Our serious and ongoing concerns about the No Child Left Behind Act cause us to ask our legislators in Congress not to rush through a quick fix but instead to take the time to reauthorize NCLB with care. We believe it...
South Korea Strikes Deal for Release of Hostages
South Korea's government and Taliban militants said Tuesday they had reached a deal to free 19 South Korean hostages held captive held for more six weeks in Afghanistan. According to news reports, South Korea agreed to...
A lesson from above on making wise decisions
After years of leading conferences, and even writing a boring dissertation on responsible decision-making, one would think I would be better at it myself. However, considering all possible implications of one’s...
Christianity and Capitalism
The only history we have of earliest Christianity is found in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. Written by the same person who wrote the Gospel of Luke, the book of Acts opens with Jesus' ascension and concludes...
Southern Baptist Leader Says Public Schools Hostile Toward Religion
A Southern Baptist seminary president told a North Carolina newspaper that public schools are not neutral toward religion but rather hostile to people of faith. "In the public schools, you don't just have neutrality,...
Where Are Nukes at the Table of Peace?
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the toughest of them all when it comes to using nuclear weapons against Osama bin Laden and terrorists in radical states such as Iran and Afghanistan? And by the way, while you're...
School days and different ways
August 27 marks the first day of class for many students across the Southeast. It's not a major day for our family, because Samuel attends a public year-round school (our choice), and started his school year back in...
Read and Reply Request to Readers
EthicsDaily.com is on a record-scorching pace of growing Web traffic. We had 279,012 page requests in June. That compares to 93,074 in June 2005. Page requests represent the number of times articles are read. As good...
The Biblical Call for Liberation
What guidelines, if any, can be derived from the biblical call for liberation? The past years have witnessed an attempt to come to terms with the presence of undocumented aliens. Regardless of the shape future...
‘Hotel Rwanda’ Figure Says Churches Failed in Rwanda’s Genocide
Rwanda's genocide was in part a failure of the Christian church, a former hotel manager whose efforts to save the lives of more than 1,200 of his countrymen inspired the Academy Award-nominated movie "Hotel Rwanda,"...
CBF of North Carolina embraces state WMU group, seeks emergency funds to help with transition
By John Pierce, Executive Editor, Baptists TodayWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — On the heels of news that Woman’s Missionary Union of North Carolina (WMU-NC) is loosening ties with the Baptist State Convention (BSC) and taking...
Controversy Continues Over Southern Baptist Seminary’s Homemaking Degree
CNN reported Thursday that Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary expects about 15 women in its inaugural class of a for-ladies-only bachelor's degree specializing in homemaking. Paige Patterson, president of the...
The Alien is Jesus Among Us
On Aug. 22 a prayer vigil showing solidarity for Elvira Arellano, and all of the other families in risk of separation due to our inhumane immigration system, was held in Denver. On Aug. 22 a prayer vigil showing...
‘September Dawn’
The new movie "September Dawn" dramatizes an 1857 event known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre in which 120 men, women and children—heading from Missouri to California—were killed in cold blood by a raiding party of...
Fundamental lessons learned long ago
News that longtime Independent Baptist leader Lee Roberson died this spring at age 97 got by me somehow. At the discussion forum BaptistLife.com, Alabamian Mark Ray rightly chided the Baptist media for not picking up...
Days Before His Death, Falwell Stood By Controversial Comments About 9/11
In his apparently last television interview recorded the week before his death, Jerry Falwell defended controversial statements he made following 9/11 holding secular and liberal groups responsible for the terrorist...
Pleasing People, Pleasing God (Luke 4:28-30): Bible Commentary for New Baptist Covenant
N. T. Wright, the great New Testament scholar and Bishop of Durham, England, tells of a fellow bishop who said, "Why is it when St. Paul went into a town they had a riot, but when I go to a town they have me for tea?"...
Former Southern Baptist Leader Pleads Guilty to Prostitution Charges
A well-known moral activist and former Baptist leader pleaded guilty on Wednesday to six counts of aiding and abetting prostitution in Salisbury, N.C. Coy Privette, 74, could have his criminal record expunged if he...
Why Aren’t We Doing More about Global Hunger? And What We Can Do.
Numbers are chilling. Challenges are constant. Reports are recurring. Causes are clear. Solutions are settled. So, why aren't we doing more about global hunger? Opportunities for engagement are overflowing....
Former SBC Leader, Louisiana College Grad, Blasts Pressler Law School
A former Southern Baptist Convention leader and Louisiana College alumnus criticized his alma mater for naming its planned law school after a "conservative resurgence" co-founder and retired Texas judge. Wilmer C....
Authentic Religion Does Not Pander to Power (Luke 4:25-27): Bible Commentary for the New Baptist Covenant
"But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them...