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Jews for Jimmy
Prominent leaders like Abraham Foxman and Alan Dershowitz don't speak for the entire U.S. Jewish community in condemning former President Jimmy Carter for comparing Israeli occupation of the West Bank with South...
First Person: When a Pastor Protects a Pedophile
We attended a typical church. Wednesday night prayer meeting was almost always the people you knew, and rarely were there visitors. But, after church for choir practice, the 40 choir members were all known by name and...
Bush Warns Against Failure In Iraq
Once again we have been warned by President George W. Bush that failure in Iraq would be "grievous and far-reaching." I have not counted the times he has used fear to get the public's attention. Tuesday in the annual...
A Home Run of an Idea
In an article for Ethics Daily, Charles Deweese makes the case that sports is one of the world's largest religions. There is no doubt that sports pervade much of our culture. Stadiums and arenas are the cathedrals in...
Gore Film on Environment Nominated for Two Oscars
Former Vice President Al Gore said he is "thrilled" that his documentary film on the perils of global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," was honored with two Oscar nominations. The movie received an Academy Award...
Former NAMB Head ‘Saddened,’ ‘Grieved’ by Book
Former North American Mission Board head Bob Reccord says he hasn't read a new insider book alleging mishandling of donor money at the Southern Baptist Convention agency, but what he has heard about it leaves him...
Bush Seeks Support for War in State of the Union
Facing waning public and political support, President George W. Bush pleaded with a Democratic Congress to give his plan to escalate the war in Iraq a chance in Tuesday's State of the Union address. "This is not the...
Bellevue Fires Minister at Center of Sex-Abuse Scandal
Bellevue Baptist Church has terminated a minister whose admission of sexual misconduct put the suburban Memphis mega-church in the center of a scandal that has received national attention. Bellevue's personnel...
Rick Scarborough Blasts Clinton-Carter Baptist Confab
Vision America founder Rick Scarborough turned a "New Baptist Covenant" proposed by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton into a fund-raising pitch, calling it an effort to deceive Christians into believing...
Clergy Sex Abuse Case Reveals Flaws in SBC System, Victims’ Advocate Says
A former Southern Baptist music minister convicted of sexual abuse of children in two states managed to move from church to church, despite background checks and a history of addiction to pornography. Shawn D. Davies,...
Peace Or Trouble Maker?
Since leaving office in 1981, Jimmy Carter has been by far our most active former president. His efforts through the Carter Center to help fledgling democracies, and his support of poverty initiatives and other...
Lenten Bible Study Available for Download
A Lenten Bible study featuring Baptists from around the world is available free of charge from EthicsDaily.com. Student and leader guides for the eight-week study, Eyeing Easter, Walking through Lent, are now available...
BCE Leader Defends ‘Golden Rule’ Baptists
Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics defended a recently announced meeting of "Golden Rule" Baptists under attack by leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention. "Baptists are more than Southern Baptists--who...
Living in the Borderlands
From Tijuana on the Pacific Ocean to Matamoros on the Gulf of Mexico runs a 1,833-mile border separating the United States from Latin America. Around the halfway point on this border is Ciudad Juárez. Flowing...
A New Chance for Peace?
I am concerned that public discussion of my book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" has been diverted from the book's basic proposals: that peace talks be resumed after six years of delay and that the tragic persecution...
Birthdays Keep Coming, While the World Keeps Reeling
With nearly a decade of weekly column writing this one is unique. This is the first time I ever wrote one on my birthday. About six o'clock this morning, 77 years ago, I was born out on Seventh Street in Brownwood,...
Why A Baptist Observes Lent
When I was a teenager, many years ago, the ministerial alliance in our small town organized Wednesday early morning devotions and doughnuts for youth during Lent. They were held at the Methodist church across the...
Tennessee Baptist Leaders Defend Lawsuit in Letter to Churches
Tennessee Baptist Convention leaders defended their decision to sue Belmont University for removing itself from convention control in a letter delivered this week to nearly 3,000 churches. The letter, signed by the...
Insider Book Details Waste at NAMB
Former North American Mission Board President Robert Reccord's books, media appearances and exotic hobbies like scuba diving earned him the nickname "Hollywood Bob," according to a new insider book written by a former...
It’s Getting Hot In Here
Care for a Pacific Island holiday with sun drenched beaches, towering palms, crystal oceans and brilliant reefs? Scientists tell us that within a generation or two global warming may well bring an end to such...
Majoring on the Minors
When I was a young man in the late '60s and early '70s, it was a time of great social upheaval with a war in Vietnam that history has determined to be a horrible blunder and a civil rights movement that would bring a...