by Sarah Stone | Jun 28, 2013 | News
“Land is everything here,” says Alex Vickers, BMS World Mission worker in Gulu, northern Uganda. With land comes the possibility of growing crops to feed your family and pay for your children’s education. “If you have land,” he says,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 27, 2013 | News
Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM) came close to packing the house at First Baptist Church of Greensboro Wednesday night, and Nancy Sehested rocked it with a stirring call for women to remember how far they had come since the organization’s birth 30 years ago....
by Sarah Stone | Jun 27, 2013 | News
Imagine a childhood like the one George had: Forced, at age 11, to leave his family behind and join the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. Forced to fight. “I was given to the group of the commander,” he says. Abducted with a group of children...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 19, 2013 | News
Editor’s note: Read Robert Parham’s editorial, A Church of Christ Show Pushes Comedy, Cultural Critique in All the Right Ways, from June 2012. “It’s like Mark Twain meets God – and likes the God he meets.” That’s how a friend of Lee...
by Brian Kaylor | Jun 13, 2013 | News
Longtime religious leader Richard Land ended his nearly 25 years of service as the head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) by hitting partisan notes at the SBC’s annual meeting in Houston. Land’s...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 12, 2013 | News
A political icon credited with helping to create the Moral Majority in the 1970s has called on conservatives to back prison reform, citing prison spending as “excessive” and pointing out how the prison system is “harmful to prisoners and their...