by Barry Howard | Sep 11, 2025 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: Articles from before January 1, 2025, that appeared online at Good Faith Media and Ethics Daily can now be accessed through our archives site. The following reflection from Barry Howard first appeared on September 6, 2016, near the fifteenth anniversary...
by David Wheeler | Sep 9, 2025 | Opinion
Hermeneutical Questions As Baptists have affirmed and practiced our classic “freedoms”—soul freedom, Bible freedom and congregational freedom—shifting cultural contexts and newly affirmed personal experiences have pushed our conversations forward, as they should. But...
by Peggy Haymes | Aug 27, 2025 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final installment in Peggy Haymes’ series on grief. When my father died three years after my mom, it was jarring, but not because of his death. His disease meant we inched our way towards its inevitability for years. What shocked...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 25, 2025 | Opinion
For fear of suffering the consequences or suffering a setback, some “suffer fools gladly.” They decide early on to stay in their place, stay put, in their lane, on the sidelines, or just stay out of it. Sometimes, we get in our own way before we even know where we...
by Leah Davis | Aug 19, 2025 | Opinion
On a recent Sunday, I confessed to my suburban Washington, D.C. congregation something I had never done before in nearly 20 years of preaching and pastoring: I scrapped the previously written sermon and started over on Saturday night. Sure, I have altered sermons the...
