by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 22, 2017 | News
David George is president of the WMU Foundation. 1. Where did you grow up? Birmingham, Alabama. 2. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why? John 16:33. Knowing that God has overcome, keeps me from giving up. 3. What is your favorite movie? Why?...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 17, 2017 | News
Positive views among U.S. adults toward nearly all religious groups increased from 2014 to 2017, according to the Pew Research Center. There was an average 6 percent increase in positive views of all religions included in the survey. Atheists moved from 41 percent...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 16, 2017 | News
Baptists in South Sudan are ministering to refugees and internally displaced persons amid increasing violence in the African nation. The civil war, begun in 2013, has caused 1.5 million to flee to neighboring countries and displaced 2.1 million, according to U.N....
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 15, 2017 | News
Barrett Owen is senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Waynesboro, Virginia, and a Baptist Center for Ethics board member. 1. Where did you grow up? Cross Plains, Tennessee, 30 miles north of Nashville. 2. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible?...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 15, 2017 | News
The U.S. refugee vetting and resettlement process is lengthy, complex and not widely understood. In most cases, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) first determines who is eligible for resettlement. That process is detailed here. “A minority of refugees...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 10, 2017 | News
The U.S. Human Trafficking Hotline (1-888-373-7888) and BeFree Textline (Text HELP to 233733) received a record number of contacts in 2016. Total calls and texts have more than doubled in the last four years – moving from 3,409 (2012) to 8,042 (2016) –...
