Baptist Obesity

The table was laden with sausage, fried bologna, bacon, from scratch biscuits, flour gravy, cheese grits, scrambled eggs, assorted jellies and jams and slices of cantaloupe. The hot topic of the day was the news of a sociological study by Dr. Ken Ferraro of Purdue...

Baptist Confessions of Faith: Use and Abuse

LEARNING FROM BAPTIST HISTORY Editor’s note: As part of an emphasis leading up to Baptists’ 400th anniversary in 2009, EthicsDaily.com is running a series of columns by staff of the Baptist History and Heritage Society about lessons from Baptist history...

‘My Country, My Country’

The PBS documentary series “P.O.V.” concludes its 2006 season tonight with “My Country, My Country,” which chronicles the run-up to the 2005 Iraqi elections. The genius of filmmaker Laura Poitras’ approach, however, doesn’t lie in...

Their Terrorists and Ours

A bomb explodes aboard a plane, downing the airliner and killing all on board. At a hotel in a busy tourist section of the city another bomb explodes, killing and wounding vacationing Europeans. These acts were committed by those wishing to topple a form of government...

The Last Temptation of the Church

A new book out claims the Bush administration has used its unique and highly visible connections to conservative evangelicals merely for political gain. David Kuo, author of Tempting Faith, served for three years as special assistant to President Bush in the office of...