by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 20, 2016 | News
Latino and Latina death practices differ significantly from those of Anglo Protestant families, yet they are largely unknown outside the Latino community. Candi K. Cann, assistant professor in Baylor University’s Interdisciplinary Core of the Honors College,...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 19, 2016 | News
“Nones,” or religiously unaffiliated people, now represent 20 percent of the U.S. population, even as 73 percent of the nation still self-identifies as Christian, according to Barna Group’s 2016 State of the Church report. “These huge...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 16, 2016 | News
Food insecurity continues to trend downward from its high point of 14.9 percent of U.S. households in 2011. In 2015, 12.7 percent (15.8 million households) were food insecure, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. Of this total, 7.7 percent of...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 13, 2016 | News
Almost 50 million children worldwide currently are migrants, refugees or internally displaced persons (IDPs), according to a United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) report. “This is a conservative estimate,” UNICEF emphasized....
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 12, 2016 | News
A majority of U.S. teens involved in a local church youth ministry volunteer their time at least several times a year. “A little less than one fifth of teens (17 percent) volunteer once a week, one-quarter (25 percent) volunteer at least once a month, another...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 9, 2016 | News
Baptist and Muslim leaders believe interfaith engagement offers hope for a better future, even as negative rhetoric heightens tension for U.S. Muslims as the 15th anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches. “As an academician who wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the effects of...
