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April 24, 2018
Black Americans are More Likely than Overall Public to be Christian, Protestant (Pew Research) Monday was Confederate Memorial Day in These States (CNN) California Bill Classified Gay Conversion Therapy Fraudulent...
‘All God’s children’ is more than a slogan
By John D. Pierce We must never think of ourselves as more important than others. There is no such thing as a menial person regardless of the task he or she may perform. That includes those who cook and serve our food,...
Think Twice When You Rationalize Your Moral Outrage
Moral outrage is the antithesis of morality. Yet it's everywhere present in our world today and is everywhere rationalized on the basis of God and truth. We live in a world awash in moral outrage. Everywhere,...
Will Privileged Majority Take King’s Letter to Heart?
Headlines and social media feeds were filled earlier this month with articles about the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination on April 4, 1968. King wrote his powerful "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"...
Social Safety Nets Reduce Poverty, Income Inequality
Not only do social safety nets "play a pivotal role" in reducing poverty and lowering income inequality but they also have been demonstrated to be effective in doing so. These are two key assertions in the World Bank...
April 23, 2018
Climate Change Schism: Evangelical Christians Divided on Human Role in Global Warming (NBC News) Church of the Donald: Trump’s Most Reliable Mouthpiece is Now Christian TV. (Politico) Conservatives Turn to Trump’s...
Deconstructing Our Anthropocentric Ecological Consumption
Humanity has assumed for way too long now that we are the center of the universe. If not the universe, we are certainly the dominant rulers of this blue orb we call earth. Anthropocentric attitudes and actions have led...
Facing Up to the Reality of Climate Change
"The climate has always changed." You often hear that statement when the possibility of manmade (or anthropogenic) climate change is discussed. It is a true statement, of course. The earth's climate has been in a...
Pastors Share How Their Churches Support Creation Care
Creation care is, I hope, a familiar term and concept to EthicsDaily.com readers. After all, caring for the environment has been a significant and regular focal point on our site via articles and video interviews, with...
Not Quite Ruined by the Fall
One of the persisting questions in theological interpretation is what actually happened to our forebears as sin entered the world. A long tradition speaks of "total depravity," which means we are rendered incapable of...
April 20, 2018
About That Evangelical Summit in Wheaton This Week (Christianity Today) The Non-Trump Evangelicals (The Economist) Evangelical Support for Trump at All-time High (Washington Times) No One Likes Trump Except White...
Now we know
By John D. Pierce We no longer have to speculate. And what many of us have suspected is true. We’ve wondered why Jesus — who offered expansive grace, a counter-cultural life and incisive teachings as part of revealing...
Why Our Worship Must Focus More on Creation Care
A conversation with my friends around a lunch table made me think. My question was about how the natural world and our Christian faith relate to each other. Each of us responded with a story to share about how we...
4 Thoughts That Define Your Easter, Christian Worldview
We are often unaware of the influences that shape our thinking. I taught a class recently at Palm Beach Atlantic University about worldviews, seeking to encourage graduating seniors to articulate, further define or...
Top Reason U.S. Churchgoers Give? It’s Relationships
Personal relationship is the most common reason U.S. Protestant and nondenominational adults who attend church at least monthly donate to charitable causes, according to a LifeWay Research report published on April 17....
April 19, 2018
Taxpayer Dollars Can’t Be Used to Fix Up Churches, N.J. Supreme Court Rules (NJ.com) Memphis Took Down Two Confederate Statues. State Lawmakers are Punishing the City for it. (CNN) White Supremacy is the Achilles Heel...
Profiles in Goodwill: Merianna Harrelson
Merianna Harrelson is pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in West Columbia, South Carolina, and editor-in-chief of Harrelson Press Publishing. 1. Where did you grow up? Spartanburg, South Carolina. 2. What is your...
How Churches Can Turn Around Our Environmental Woes
What are the leading environmental challenges the world is facing today? Gus Speth, an environmental lawyer and advocate, once said, "I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem...
Social Justice: Good News for the Poor – Part 3
One of the privileges of ministry in the part of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, where I live is the opportunity to lead a multicultural church. Most of the Afro-Caribbean families who worship with us are...
April 18, 2018
3 Men Now Accuse 87-Year-Old Former Texas Judge, Southern Baptist Leader of Sexual Misconduct (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) Trump and White Evangelicals: Support for President Grows, But Millennials Leave Movement...
How Martin Luther King’s Death Birthed Environmental Justice
How did the death of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, birth a black church-led movement for environmental justice? Well, the story begins in Memphis, the city of King's murder, where decades prior...