by Brenda McWilliams | Jan 17, 2025 | Feature-, Opinion
In a somber ceremony at Washington National Cathedral on January 9, 2025, our nation paid homage to the late President Jimmy Carter. Eulogies and the homily lauded his character, honesty, integrity, respect, compassion, love and care for all God’s creation. Stu...
by Randall Balmer | Jan 16, 2025 | Faith and Democracy, Feature, Opinion
Donald Trump’s second inauguration coincides with the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., which can either bode well or badly. On the side of hope, I was struck by the tableau of presidents past, president and future at the funeral of the thirty-ninth...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 14, 2025 | Feature, Opinion
On December 2, I stood in the small chapel on the grounds of San Salvador’s Hospital Divina Providencia, whose mission is to provide palliative care. Almost forty-five years earlier, on March 24, 1980, the archbishop of El Salvador, Oscar Romero, living on the...
by Robert Parham | Jan 10, 2025 | Feature-, Look Back
Editor’s note: The following appeared in EthicsDaily.com on July 24, 2012. Jesus’ moral agenda is summarized in Luke 4:18-19. Unfortunately, U.S. Christians in general and Baptists in particular have neglected it, especially the part about prisoners. That was the...
by Josh Carney | Jan 6, 2025 | Feature-, Opinion
Ostensibly, Duke Divinity theology professor emeritus Stanley Hauerwas once said, “A Christian could only ever run for public office one time. If their platform reflected the teachings of Jesus, they’d never get elected again.” “Ostensibly” is a shaky way to begin an...