by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 20, 2017 | News
Terri Byrd is coordinator of Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. 1. Where did you grow up? I was born in Nashville, Tennessee, but I lived in nine different places, all in the southeast U.S., by the time I was married at the age of 21. 2. What is your favorite...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 18, 2017 | News
The number of people experiencing hunger rose for the first time in a decade, according to the United Nations annual report, “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.” Last year, 815 million people experienced hunger globally – an...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 14, 2017 | News
Food insecurity in the U.S. declined for the fifth straight year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) annual report released last week. Even so, more than 15 million households were food insecure in 2016. According to USDA definitions,...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 13, 2017 | News
Gary Furr is pastor of Vestavia Hills Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. 1. Where did you grow up? I was born and raised my first seven years in Concord, North Carolina, but because of dad’s career in retail management I lived in eight cities in five states...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 13, 2017 | News
Expanding access to clean water, along with proper sanitation and hygiene systems, is essential to ending global poverty, but often there is a gap between policy and implementation. This was a central emphasis in a new World Bank report based on studies of conditions...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 12, 2017 | News
Baptist groups are preparing to mobilize to help victims of Hurricane Irma, even as efforts to assist folks recovering from Hurricane Harvey continue. As with Hurricane Harvey recovery initiatives, much of the Baptist relief efforts related to Hurricane Irma will...
