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Reflecting on Modern-Day Violence Through Biblical Story
We will observe the 24th anniversary of the Rwanda Tutsi genocide in April. Romeo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations forces in Rwanda, wrote a book titled "Shake Hands with the Devil." The devil, for Dallaire,...
When Hateful Words Groom People To Commit Violence
We learned it as children: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." I assume it is to be a comfort to children when someone speaks unkind words to them. It occurs to me that it also could...
Trusting a Patient God to Work in Our Fellowship
My faith journey took seed in the little country of Singapore. I grew up in a culturally Buddhist family from Indonesia, and it was there as a teenager that I walked into an international Baptist church and was...
How David’s Actions Can Guide Your Church Culture
David and Saul had a rocky relationship at best. Saul's roller-coaster personality did not lend itself to stable interactions, particularly with someone he found as threatening as David. A major set of events in their...
The E3 Initiative: What It Means for Your Church
The EthicsDaily.com board of directors met in San Antonio, Texas, last week for our annual board meeting. The meeting was filled with excitement and enthusiasm for the future. While the board conducted important...
Why Your Church Isn’t for Everyone in Your Community
Not everyone in your community will resonate with your church. But someone(s) in your community will. Your collective expression of the gospel of Jesus Christ, your expression of church, will open the door to God for...
Jewelry Industry’s Supply Chains Hide Worker Exploitation
The global jewelry industry relies on complex supply chains that hide worker exploitation, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released in January. "Jewelers and watchmakers typically rely on complex supply...
March 14, 2018
A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers are Leaving White Evangelical Churches (New York Times) How Trump is Remaking Evangelicalism (The Atlantic) Stormy Daniels Fails to Change Plurality of Evangelicals’ View of Trump...
Profiles in Goodwill: Shane McNary
Shane McNary, along with his wife, Dianne, are Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel serving in Slovakia. 1. Where did you grow up? Central Arkansas (Little Rock, North Little Rock, Benton and the metropolis...
Don’t Be Overwhelmed; We Can Eliminate Poverty
A challenging and potentially transformative command to enact an economic Sabbath is found in Deuteronomy 15:1-11. Every seven years, Hebrew creditors were to release the remaining debt of the loans given during the...
BWA’s United Nations’ Rep to Receive Human Rights Award
Christer Daelander, a Baptist World Alliance representative to the United Nations and religious freedom representative of the European Baptist Federation (EBF), is the nominee for the 2018 Denton and Janice Lotz Human...
Directors: Bright Future for EthicsDaily.com, Baptist Movement
The EthicsDaily.com board of directors sees a bright future for the organization and the Baptist movement. Meeting on March 8-9 at Woodland Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas, the board heard (and unanimously...
5 Ways to Help Your Kids to Have Healthy Disagreements
How do we teach the next generation that disagreements don't necessarily mean dislike? How can we help them learn to share their thoughts with gentleness and respect in a culture that seems to have no room for healthy...
5 Qualities That Influential Pastors Must Embody
Being a pastor is much more than being a preacher. In fact, many of the most influential pastors in my life have been average preachers, but extraordinary pastors. And many of the great conference speakers who have...
Debunked: ‘What’s Good for Business is Good for America’
There it was again - in an editorial of a newspaper - the cliché I've heard all my life: "What's good for business is good for America." As a Christian theologian, I have spoken out against "folk religion," which...
4 Characteristics of Churches That Produce Leaders
Nearly all observers of the 21st century church in the U.S. agree that the next generation of leadership is a cause for concern. Many write, blog, tweet and generally lament the state of leadership cultivation and...
Is Carbon Offsetting Merely a License to Pollute?
As I drove with my family through a remote valley in southwestern Uganda 10 years ago, we entered a vast landscape of devastation - thousands of hectares of hillside stripped bare of indigenous forest and replanted...
The Most Common Sin Many Christians Often Justify
Classically, Christianity has listed seven sins as "deadly" sins, meaning that most everything else we do that is not virtuous somehow takes its root in one these congenital propensities. These are the infamous seven:...
Nuclear Saber-Rattling Puts Planet in Perilous Times
Are we living in the best or the worst of times? Steven Pinker, a psychology professor at Harvard University, addresses this question in his latest book released in January under the title "Enlightenment Now: The Case...
The great fundamentalist lie
By John D. Pierce Remember when the Religious Right (a.k.a., Moral Majority, Christian fundamentalists) jumped into politics a few decades ago to tout their commitment to “family values?” Well, that was a big, fat lie....
Redefining the Baptist Meeting
Humor columnist Dave Barry once quipped, "If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'" How many times...