by Stephen Holmes | Dec 11, 2012 | Opinion
My friend, Ruth Valerio, has a typically thoughtful and well-written blog post up about the need for adaptive theologies in the face of our changing climate, to which she drew my attention when we were talking about something else. (If you don’t follow...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Dec 11, 2012 | Opinion
U.S. citizens will average $770 in buying Christmas gifts in 2012, according to Gallup. While some may choose to curb the amount spent on gifts, it seems unlikely that celebrating the season by exchanging gifts will disappear. Nor am I suggesting that this is the goal...
by Robert Parham | Dec 11, 2012 | Opinion
Hope is at the heart of EthicsDaily.com and its parent company, the Baptist Center for Ethics (BCE). BCE was started in the late summer of 1991 in hope – hope in the impossible possibility that we could make a moral difference as goodwill Baptists in a collapsing...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 10, 2012 | Opinion
Writer Sue Monk Kidd grew up among Baptists in the south and, like most of the rest of us who did, she learned to pay very little attention to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Kidd says she was “virtually unaware of Mary, except at Christmas, when she turned up...
by Keith Jones | Dec 10, 2012 | Opinion
The General Synod, the governing body of the Church of England, failed to secure the necessary majority in the House of Laity to move to the possibility of appointing women to the episcopate. The recent upset has set off a round of newspaper articles, Facebook,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 9, 2012 | Opinion
I’ve been lucky enough to be part of a minister’s support group that’s been going now for the past 23 years. We started with a dozen or so guys who didn’t know each other well, sitting around a table at the Caraway Conference Center and trying...
