by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 28, 2011 | News
The new issue of a prestigious Baptist theological journal focuses on the longstanding problem among Baptists – race – but with a different twist. The fall 2011 volume of the Review & Expositor presents “examples of racial and cultural progress that could...
by Greg Garrison | Oct 6, 2011 | News
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (RNS) The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the driving force behind the Birmingham integration efforts that energized the national civil rights movement, died Wednesday (Oct. 5) at age 89. Shuttlesworth said he never feared death, and repeatedly put...
by James L. Evans | Aug 19, 2011 | Opinion
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” I cannot count how many times I have read this book or watched the award-winning film starring Gregory Peck. But I do know how the book and...
by Colin Harris | Jul 28, 2011 | Opinion
It seems like it has been a long journey from Jim Crow to the Party of No, but one wonders if it has really been very far. There was a time when a good Baptist deacon would teach Sunday school the morning after wearing a white sheet on Saturday night to terrorize his...
by Chuck Warnock | May 18, 2011 | Opinion
The late Gerald Ford, former president of the United States, was honored earlier this month with a statue in “Statuary Hall” in the United States House of Representatives. Ford served most of his political career as a congressman from Michigan. There was...
