Using Facebook to Advance the Common Good

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part series about using social media platforms to help EthicsDaily.com reach more people in our mission to challenge people of faith to advance the common good. With the advent of social media, advertising and...

Liberty and justice for all?

News outlets are abuzz this week as the Supreme Court prepares to hear two cases relative to same-sex marriage. The court’s decisions, due by June, could be landmark findings, or a more cautious response. Photo by author, taken 3-4-2013National sentiment has...

When We Need Balm, Why Do We Choose Bombs?

I was raised attending a church that knew nothing of such innovations as extended session and children’s church. If you were a child at the Midway Baptist Church located four miles outside of Barnesville, Ga., on City Pond Road, you were promoted straight from...

Unjust U.S. Prison System Needs Reform

Multiple studies reveal that our current U.S. legal system negatively impacts communities of color. A disproportionate number of people of color face both prison time and capital punishment. According to a 2011 report by the U.S. Department of Justice, 67.8 percent of...

Singing on caskets

By John Pierce Veteran entertainers Harry Belafonte and Tony Bennett, in an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo yesterday, recalled their involvement in the civil rights struggle — in particular, the tide-turning Selma to Montgomery marches in March 1965. In...