by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 7, 2018 | News
Gus Reyes is director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Christian Life Commission. 1. Where did you grow up? Corpus Christi, Texas, and Rialto, California. 2. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why? Matthew 20:29-32. Jesus stops,...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 7, 2018 | News
Ongoing violence in South Sudan is projected to result in “Africa’s largest refugee crisis since the mid-1990s,” the United Nations announced on Feb. 1. “The human cost of the South Sudan conflict has reached epic proportions,” said...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 5, 2018 | News
“Violence promoted and carried out in the name of religion” must always be condemned, Pope Francis stated on Feb. 2 at a conference focused on this subject. “The religious person knows that among the greatest blasphemies is to invoke God as the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 2, 2018 | News
A “Unity Declaration on Racism and Poverty,” signed by more than 80 U.S. faith leaders, was sent to members of Congress on Jan. 29. Poverty and racism in the U.S. are inextricable, the declaration noted, and “they are theological issues for us, not...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 31, 2018 | News
John Weaver is the chairman of the John Ray Initiative, an educational charity focused on connecting environment, science and Christianity in the United Kingdom. He was principal of South Wales Baptist College until his retirement in 2011 and served as the president...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 31, 2018 | News
Atheism is most common among Generation Z, while Christian affiliation is most common among Boomers and Elders, according to a Barna Group report released on Jan. 24. Thirteen percent of respondents in Generation Z (born 1999 to 2015) said they are atheists. By...
