by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 22, 2019 | News
Racial and ethnic disparities remain despite progress in many areas of U.S. children’s well-being, according to the 2019 Kids Count Data book published June 17 by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF). “In 1990, when the first data book was published, many politicians,...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 19, 2019 | News
The number of countries with significant government restrictions on religious liberty declined slightly in 2017, yet levels remain well above those from a decade ago. And the number of nations with high levels of social hostility toward religion increased. These are...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 18, 2019 | News
A strong majority (70%) of U.S. adults believe hate speech and crime have increased in the past five years, according to Barna Group survey results published July 16. By comparison, 22% say they have stayed the same, 3% believe it has declined and the remaining 5% are...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 17, 2019 | News
Erica Whitaker is senior pastor of Buechel Park Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Where did you grow up? I grew up in multiple homes across multiple states. The three places I claim as childhood homes is a farm outside of Wichita, Kansas; a little house with a...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 17, 2019 | News
Jamaican Baptist leaders raised the topic of reparations for slavery in multiple sessions of the annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance last week in Nassau, the Bahamas. Devon Dick, a Jamaican Baptist pastor, gave a presentation on the biblical case for...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 15, 2019 | News
Baptist leaders from about 40 nations voted to affirm women in ministry and to condemn religious-based intolerance during the annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance in Nassau, the Bahamas, last week. Both resolutions passed on July 11 after being discussed and...
