by Helen Paynter | May 28, 2019 | Opinion
“There’s just so much wrath in the Bible!” “The God of the Old Testament is so different from the God of the New Testament!” “Why is there so much violence in the Old Testament?” If I had an English pound for every time someone had said something like this to me, I’d,...
by Helen Paynter | Feb 11, 2019 | Opinion
“Bad theology can make people kill each other.” I wrote these words in a blog post published just over a year ago. Nothing I have seen or read since then has made me change my mind. In fact, bad theology – and bad biblical interpretation – can cause people to do all...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 20, 2018 | News
Millions of children coming to the U.S. from Central America are migrating to escape poverty and violence, according to a U.N. Children’s Fund “Child Alert” report released Aug. 16. “Gang-related violence, organized crime, extortion, poverty and limited access to...
by Gordon King | Apr 9, 2018 | Opinion
New Testament scholar John P. Meier wrote of the enormous distance between the social world of Jesus and modern Western societies in their views of unclean spirits and exorcism. People of the first-century Mediterranean world, Jews and Gentiles, were apprehensive...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 5, 2018 | News
“Violence promoted and carried out in the name of religion” must always be condemned, Pope Francis stated on Feb. 2 at a conference focused on this subject. “The religious person knows that among the greatest blasphemies is to invoke God as the...
