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The Christian Response to Globalization
Globalization is an ugly but ubiquitous word coined in the late 1980s to describe the increasing interconnectedness of humanity, especially in the economic sphere. Its essence is the free movement of money, resources...
Pay Gap Widens Between Male and Female Managers
Women may make up roughly half of the workforce, but when it comes to managerial positions they are still paid less than their male counterparts. According to the Washington Post, the wage gap between male and female...
Infect Truth
Its Web ads claim "everybody wants to be free." It's Truth, an organization whose "main goal is to alert everyone to the lies and hidden practices of the cigarette companies, while giving people the tools to have a...
Hospital Chaplains and the Healthcare Crisis
Those whose vocations take them into the world of healthcare on a daily basis are well aware that it is an active and bubbling moral cauldron. Personal, professional, administrative, and societal decisions are loaded...
Embracing a Changing Community: An Interview with Rick Carson
"Every generation is in the midst of some change," Rick Carson said. "The first step is the journey to one's own self." Carson, associate professor of New Testament and Greek at McAfee School of Theology, believes...
Let Congregation Reign, Pastor Says
One African-American pastor leads his growing church with a rather short, but effective set of values. The Rev. William Buchanan, pastor at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church, one of the largest African-American...
Poor Hear Little Good News
As the war on terrorism continues, Jesus' challenge to his followers carries fresh relevance. In the darkness of our war culture, we are called to shine the light of the Good News. "You are the light of the world. A...
Dare We Hope for the Transformation of Islam?
Fourteen hundred years ago Muhammad toured the Arabian peninsula preaching his innovative version of monotheism and morality. The movement he inspired has become a cultural and religious force of global significance....
Scientists Stretching Adolescence into Thirties
In a way the understanding of adolescence has matured among scientists. According to some contemporary theories, adolescence now lasts until age 34, meaning that many of today's soldiers, members of Congress and...
Who Are Baptists? A Historical Perspective
No Christian tradition spends more energy categorizing and debating its "distinctives" than Baptists. Sorting out what makes a Baptist Baptist is a cottage industry among Baptist historians, myself included. No...
Peace Skills: A Manual for Community Mediators
Conflict is part of every person's daily life. Most people, however, are not equipped to handle conflict constructively. The Peace Skills authors believe that the secret to dealing with conflict successfully requires...
Bulletin Inserts Promote Workplace Justice
National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice (NICWJ) supplies congregations with bulletin inserts on worker rights and workplace safety. Designed by the Chicago non-profit that has been educating religious groups...
Americans Still Divided on Abortion Laws
Yesterday marked the 29th anniversary of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, and according to a recent Gallup poll, Americans have not yet resolved the controversy. The January poll revealed...
Congo: Baptists Send Aid to this ‘Hot Spot’
I often seem to be flying into places when others are flying out! There are just so many trouble spots in the world, frequently called "hot spots," and yet we see, hear and read little of them. Those of us who have the...
21st Century Will Birth New Religions; Atlantic Monthly Explores Faith Explosion
New religions are flourishing around the globe, contrary to expectations of academicians who thought religion would wither in the 20th century. "The fact is that religion mutates with Darwinian restlessness," wrote...
“The Majestic”
"The Majestic" tells the story of an unwitting Moses who comes to a town in grief and leads it back from the banks of the river of denial. "You seem an odd bit familiar to me. Do I know you?" --Stan Keller "The...
BCE Launches New Web Site for a New Era
A week ago, BCE launched a new Web site for a new era. Sensing a timidity of leadership and the endangerment of historic Baptist principles, we were ready to fashion a more energetic and assertive Baptist witness in...
Unity School of Christianity: A Profile
God is good and is present everywhere, but Unity's understanding of God is not the God of traditional Christian theology. For Unity, God is an impersonal or universal principle; a power present throughout the universe;...
Honoring the Body: an Interview with Stephanie Paulsell
The body comes to the attention of all of us sooner or later, whether through deep bodily pleasure, or through illness and pain, or through our encounter with the bodies of others. EthicsDaily.com recently interviewed...
America Surfs for Religion Online
Twenty-five percent of Internet users sought online religious or spiritual material in 2001, representing a 4-percent increase over 2000, according to the report "CyberFaith: How Americans Pursue Religion Online." The...
Canadian Baptists: An Introduction
Canada was described in our national newspaper as a country of five regional solitudes or cultural regions. These solitudes interact and sometimes clash. These solitudes interact and sometimes clash. They include...