Personal Word About the Future

This is the first of a series of personal editorials to the readers of EthicsDaily.com. As the executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, I need you to know where I am and where I think BCE ought to go. I need to know if you want to go with and will support...

‘Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason’

Bridget Jones—poster girl for weight watching, relationship troubles and career fallout—is back in this serviceable sequel to 2001’s “Bridget Jones’ Diary.” Since “Diary,” Renee Zellweger (Jones) has picked up an Oscar nomination...

Making the Big Jump

Last Jan. 28, Justin Gregorich joined other potential football players in his school’s weightlifting room for a scheduled conditioning practice. He was hoping to try out for the junior varsity football team this fall. At five-foot-three and 130 pounds, Justin...

The Birthing of an African-American Rural Church

The greatest story of “church planting” in America may never be told. We have waited too late to gather the data. I am talking about the explosion of new African-American congregations in the rural South in the decades following emancipation. There were...

A Legacy

Henlee Barnette’s death at 93 silences one of the last great voices of a generation of Baptist ethicists in the South. They made Christian ethics a discipline both for Baptist seminarians and educators and for the churches their students would serve. As much as...

‘The Incredibles’

If you love James Bond and Jonny Quest, you will love “The Incredibles.” Brad Bird, who worked on “The Simpsons” and made one of the best sci-fi movies of all time, “The Iron Giant,” creates a universe where superheroes have...