by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 10, 2013 | News
When Terry Jones burned the Quran in Florida or when a Danish cartoonist depicted the Prophet Muhammad, the controversy partly centered around the tension between freedom of expression and the “defense of God.” That’s just one of several issues that...
by Brian Kaylor | Mar 27, 2013 | News
The trustees of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday to elect a new president. Russell Moore, dean of the School of Theology and senior vice president for academic administration at Southern Baptist...
by Baptist Times Staff | Mar 27, 2013 | News
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) in the United Kingdom launched an appeal on March 21 for up to 5 million people affected by the conflict in Syria. The announcement follows a dramatic deterioration in the humanitarian situation since the beginning of the year....
by Brian Kaylor | Mar 19, 2013 | News
Some Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leaders a decade ago thought war would open heavenly doors. As the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq started, SBC leaders quickly mobilized to turn the war-torn nation into an evangelistic opportunity, leading some critics to claim the...
by Baptist Times Staff | Mar 18, 2013 | News
Baptists in the United Kingdom have joined several denominations in backing a call endorsed by the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, for urgent steps to prevent hundreds of thousands of children from plunging into poverty. In his first major political...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 13, 2013 | News
“I was in the middle of this burgeoning activist career – anti-nuclear cause – and I was really fretful and anxious about my capacity to save the world from itself.” What followed the Baptist minister’s anxiousness was a “Damascus Road”...
