Obama Admin’s Summits Could Be Better Timed

by | Mar 13, 2012 | Opinion

EthicsDaily.com has posted severalarticles about the March 7 meeting between goodwill Baptists and Obama administration officials. It was a good meeting. I asked a couple questions during the meeting. The most important was a question I asked of Paul Monteiro,...

3 Steps for Churches to Avoid the Dodo’s Fate

by | Mar 13, 2012 | Opinion

Editor’s note: This column is another of several EthicsDaily.com will carry from an initiative from Great Britain called “Beyond400.net – Baptists Imagining Life After 400 Years.” “The dodo is dead. Everybody knows that.” Thus began an...

Church, change, and challenge

by | Mar 12, 2012 | Opinion

Christian leaders shouldn’t think only about how Christianity is changing the world, but about how the world is changing Christianity. That’s according to Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, recently retired as general secretary of the Reformed Church in...

Proposed Organ-Donor Law Dehumanizes Patients

by | Mar 12, 2012 | Opinion

According to the UnitedNetworkforOrganSharing (UNOS), more than 112,000 people are currently on a waiting list for a lifesaving organ. On average, 18 people die every day while waiting for one of these precious organs. Today a potential donor can help up to nine...

Why You Need That Frustrating Church Community

by | Mar 12, 2012 | Opinion

We need community, but community isn’t easy. And it isn’t easy mostly because there are people in community, and people have a way of being predictably and messily human. Some of the people in community with us have strange ideas and unreasonable...