by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 24, 2019 | News
Views on the morality of gene editing vary widely based on its intended usage, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research (APNORC) report released Dec. 28. Gene editing is the addition, removal or alteration of an organism’s DNA. A...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 23, 2019 | News
Jakob Topper is senior pastor of NorthHaven Church in Norman, Oklahoma. Where did you grow up? In the Texas Panhandle, a small town named Borger, which exists to serve the oil industry. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why? Jesus turning...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 23, 2019 | News
Cries of “Stop trafficking now!” filled the air outside the Texas Capitol building on an overcast, dreary morning in Austin. State representatives, advocates and leaders of faith-based organizations gathered on the capitol steps on Jan. 22 for a human trafficking...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 22, 2019 | News
Human trafficking has reached “horrific dimensions” in areas of conflict, according to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report published Jan. 7. The average number of trafficking victims per country has increased significantly in recent years, rising...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 17, 2019 | News
Nora O. Lozano is professor of theological studies at Baptist University of the Américas and executive director of the Christian Latina Leadership Institute in San Antonio. Where did you grow up? Monterrey, Mexico. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 16, 2019 | News
Paul Baxley, a Baptist minister in Georgia, has been selected to lead the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The pastor of First Baptist Church in Athens, Georgia, since 2010, he received a unanimous recommendation from an 11-member search committee and unanimous...