by Bob Allen | Oct 16, 2006 | News
In 1995 Dee Ann Miller wrote a column for “Baptists Today” offering 16 concrete suggestions about how Baptists could better cope with problems of sexual abuse and misconduct by ministers. Eleven years later, she says, except for minor editorial changes,...
by Bob Allen | Oct 13, 2006 | News
The use of “wedge issues” by the Christian right to create a politics of polarization may win elections but does nothing to solve the nation’s problems, says former U.S. Senator John Danforth. Danforth, an ordained Episcopal priest, also...
by Bob Allen | Oct 13, 2006 | News
The former deputy director of President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives says in a new book the office was essentially a tax-payer funded political campaign for Republicans, and the White House used evangelical Christians for their votes,...
by Bob Allen | Oct 12, 2006 | News
A Houston school district recently honored a Baptist pastor in large part for his support of a pastoral letter supporting public education issued this spring by the Baptist Center for Ethics. Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District presented Ed Hogan, senior...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 12, 2006 | News
People in more than 100 countries will take part this Sunday in an effort to set an official Guinness World Record by symbolically standing up against poverty. The challenge, initiated by the United Nations, will draw attention to Millennium Development Goals that aim...
by Bob Allen | Oct 11, 2006 | News
Two weeks have passed since Christa Brown and two other survivors of clergy sex abuse hand-delivered a letter to Southern Baptist Convention headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., asking leaders to set up an independent panel to address the problem of sexual abuse by...
