by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 17, 2015 | News, Opinion
Social safety net programs positively impact 1.9 billion worldwide, according to a new World Bank report. Interest in these “non-contributory measures designed to provide regular and predictable support to poor and vulnerable people” is growing, as their...
by Roger Olson | Jul 17, 2015 | Opinion
When the cardinals of the Catholic Church elected a pope to replace retiring Benedict XVI, I commented that I was uninterested and didn’t care. The reason was simple: Not that I have anything in particular against Catholics or the Catholic Church but that, as a...
by Terrell Carter | Jul 16, 2015 | Opinion
Leaders with our churches are facing several challenges in the 21st century. Our society is growing increasingly more secular, and religious belief has become privatized. It seems like every week new information is released that shows that local churches are...
by Jerrod Hugenot | Jul 16, 2015 | Opinion
I have read a great deal of liberation theology, which arose first in the late 1960s to early 1970s among Roman Catholic scholars, particularly in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. Gustavo Gutiérrez’s landmark book, “A Theology of...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 15, 2015 | Opinion
Well, not really all. There are other important things, too, like architecture seen in walls or beaten floors, artifacts that suggest wealth or poverty, carbonized seeds, city planning, and radiocarbon dating — but in the field, if you want to know where you are...
by Griff Martin | Jul 15, 2015 | Opinion
It’s a big week for book lovers with the arrival of the much anticipated and almost too good to be true second novel of Harper Lee. Many of us would consider “To Kill a Mockingbird” an important work in race relations, a book that looked at racial...