by Brian Kaylor | Sep 10, 2012 | News
As Democrats gathered in Charlotte, N.C., last week to push for the re-election of President Barack Obama, they found themselves criticized for removing the word “God” from the party platform. The attacks – and the disorganized response – undermined the...
by Brian Kaylor | Sep 7, 2012 | News
As thousands of delegates, elected officials and guests flocked to Charlotte, N.C., for the Democratic National Convention (DNC), the Baptist Center for Ethics (BCE) assembled an ecumenical panel in the midst of it all to inject faith into political considerations of...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 6, 2012 | News
A Baptist giant died this week and the shame of it is, most Baptists didn’t know him. Walter Harrelson was born in Winnabow, N.C., between Wilmington and Southport, in 1919. He studied at Mars Hill College when it was a junior college, served in the Navy from...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 5, 2012 | News
Amid the political speeches, organizing and parties at the Democratic National Convention, faith discussions emerged. Over 90 faith leaders, elected officials and Democratic delegates filed into a Catholic church in downtown Charlotte yesterday for a screening and...
by BWA Staff | Sep 5, 2012 | News
Baptists in the United States and elsewhere are responding to the disasters caused by the passage of Hurricane Isaac through sections of the Caribbean and the United States. Churches in Haiti provided shelter and other forms of assistance to those affected by the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 3, 2012 | News
The last day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., represented a “mainstreaming of Mormonism,” according to an expert on religion and politics. “Last night was a really dramatic shift from the way Romney has handled the issue of his...
