Unanimous Baptists: Isn’t That an Oxymoron?

I have always wondered why reasonable people would think a Baptist committee could ever reach a unanimous decision. Frankly, it is remarkable “unanimous” and “Baptist” appear in the same dictionary! As the old saying goes, “Where there...

Ironically, Few Christians Aspire to Peacemaking

Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.” Jesus is talking about those who have given themselves to the difficult and challenging work of making peace between individuals, families, groups and nations. An...

The Danger of Making Politics Your Religion

“Politics makes a lousy religion,” Nathan warned me amid a casual conversation. He should know. Nathan has spent a great swath of his life and energy yearning for political change that would create a world which, for him and for many of us, is more just...

EthicsDaily.com Readership Skyrocketed in October

October was a record-smashing month for EthicsDaily.com readership, outstripping anything we could have projected.   We had 729,925 pages read, compared to the previous all-time high in September 2010 of 577,885 pages read.   Web traffic soared by 150,000 pages read...

Help the economy: buy a suit

I showed up at the polls by 6:46 a.m. on Nov. 2, and found the polling station (in a local church gym/sanctuary) already filling up with folks who were clearly voting before going in to work. I counted 60 or so voters either in line or voting at any one time —...