by Jodi Mathews | Feb 8, 2002 | News
A two-time convicted felon received a heart transplant last month at Stanford Medical Center. With more than 4,100 on the waiting list for a new heart—500 in California alone—taxpayers footed the bill for the inmate’s surgery, which could end up costing them up...
by Karen Johnson Zurheide | Feb 5, 2002 | News
America is seeing an epidemic increase in childhood obesity according to the Dec. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Between 1986 and 1998, overweight (defined as body mass index greater than the 95th percentile for age and sex), increased...
by Alex Smirnov | Feb 5, 2002 | News
A private Florida foundation uses European celebrities to promote a 20-year-old evangelical text in Germany, raising concerns among the nation’s clerics. The Prince of Prussia, a soccer player, a women’s magazine editor and the British pop singer Cliff...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 5, 2002 | News
The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention asked its 5,000 missionaries last week to sign a controversial faith statement. IMB’s president, Jerry Rankin, acknowledged that the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message statement “has...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 5, 2002 | News
In 2000, when the Southern Baptist Convention revised the time-honored 1963 faith statement, it moved away from the historic Baptist commitment of confessions of faith toward creedal religion. One SBC official said that the adoption of the new statement meant,...
by Jared Porter | Feb 4, 2002 | News
The Harry Potter series topped the American Library Association’s 2001 list of most-challenged books for the third year running, the ALA reported in January. The popular children’s series, penned by Scottish author J.K. Rowling, “drew complaints from...
