Doing Theology in an Economic Downturn

The economy is in the tank, or at least that is what we have heard most every day for the last several months. However, the reality of economic hard times is not something we need the newspaper or television to tell us. We know that the economy is bad because we know...

Explaining Lent to Non-Liturgical Christians

Signs of spring are here. Pollen actually started falling in January in Moultrie, Ga. Robins are beginning to arrive. It will not be long before hummingbirds make their long migration back to South Georgia. Soon farmers will be turning the soil and preparing the...

Navigating the New EthicsDaily.com: Part One

EthicsDaily.com launched a new version of its Web site Feb. 4. Those of us on staff are enjoying the upgrades, and we hope you are, too. Refining the site’s design and interface is a process, not a destination, but as you read and play around with the site, consider...

Orgs Must Refocus as CBF Reduces Partner Funding

News from the past week puts in written form what most of us know either instinctively or from personal experience: The nation’s economic malaise is directly impacting both church budgets and the ministries those budgets support. Receipts are down in at least 57...

Environmentalists Must Understand Thanksgiving

We ought to give contemporary environmentalists a little slack for misreading Psalm 50. After all, the Psalmist does give the strong impression that she is a member of the court, summoning the wicked ”those who misuse and abuse the creation ”to face the sternest and...

Jimmy Carter Said What?

With only a few minutes left in his address at the New Baptist Covenant gathering Jan. 31, former president Jimmy Carter asked the 1,200 congregants at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., How many believe we are saved by the grace of God through our...