by Robert Parham | Jul 13, 2007 | Opinion
A Baptist Press news story validated the need for BCE’s forthcoming DVD on faith and politics. Since EthicsDaily.com editorials often challenge the fundamentalist-controlled Southern Baptist Convention, an editorial thanking the SBC news service for support is...
by Brent McDougal | Jul 12, 2007 | Opinion
In the 1840s, Henry David Thoreau walked away from his everyday life in Concord, Mass., in exchange for an intentional, uncomplicated life. “I went to the woods,” Thoreau wrote in Walden, “because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...
by Robert Parham | Jul 12, 2007 | Opinion
A shortage of human organs and tissues for transplants encourages unethical practices, said Rod Benson, director of the Center for Christian Ethics at Morling College in Sydney, Australia. “The serious shortfall in supply of organs suitable for transplant...
by Don Wilkey | Jul 11, 2007 | Opinion
Rick Scarborough’s new idea of a crusade he launched in Lufkin, Texas, on July 5 is a radical departure from his past. His mentor, the late Jerry Falwell, claimed in the PBS Religious Right documentary that the old idea–that holding revivals and winning...
by Robert Parham | Jul 11, 2007 | Opinion
Ghana Baptist Convention president Steve Asante handed a traditional gift–an egg wrapped in a blue-and-white cloth–to Baptist World Alliance president David Coffey on the closing day of the July 2-7 BWA annual gathering in Accra. Coffey then handed the...
by Robert Parham | Jul 10, 2007 | Opinion
“Prosperity gospel” churches compete with Baptist churches in Africa, especially for younger people, with promises of wealth and health, according to participants in a forum discussion Saturday at the Baptist World Alliance gathering in Accra, Ghana. The...
