by Ron Rolheiser | Jun 13, 2019 | Opinion
Most of us have been raised to believe we have right to possess whatever comes to us honestly, either through our own work or through legitimate inheritance. No matter how large that wealth might be, it’s ours, as long as we didn’t cheat anyone along the way. By and...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 13, 2019 | News
The U.S. is an outlier in a global trend of prayer decreasing as national wealth increases, according to a Pew Research Center analysis published May 1. Drawing on previous data from 2014-15 global surveys, Pew observed a correlation between a nation’s per-capita...
by Colin Harris | Feb 5, 2019 | Opinion
The co-teacher of our weekly Sunday School class grew up Jewish. As such, he is our resident resource person for questions about the religious conceptual framework within which both the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures came to be. He observed in a recent discussion...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 27, 2018 | News
The tax policies of state and local governments can help move the U.S. toward racial equality and “undo the harmful legacies of past racism,” according to a report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released in mid-November. The increasing gap...
by Michael Shaw | Aug 24, 2018 | Opinion
I recently watched a BBC Panorama documentary on the impact of poverty on life expectancy called “Get Rich or Die Young.” The program reported from Teeside, United Kingdom, which has the country’s worst health inequality: The life expectancy difference between...
