The only religious reference in the original U.S. Constitution appears in Article VI: “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” Unfortunately, a couple of U.S. Senators recently forgot that civic principle.Brian KaylorDuring
Robert Parham, founding executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics and executive editor of EthicsDaily.com, passed away Sunday night. With his leadership, BCE produced award-winning news coverage and documentary films, provided a strong public voice on moral issues and set an innovative example for
Last Friday night, President Donald Trump banned my friend, Ara, from coming to the United States. Ara serves as a pastor of a Baptist church in Baghdad, Iraq. Trump’s executive order bans everyone coming from seven nations — including Iraq — and stops all refugees
A church in Springfield, Mo., decided to change their name a few months ago. Originally known as First Evangelical Free Church of Springfield, the large congregation now goes by The Springs
My colleagues and I awoke Nov. 29 in Nashville, Tenn., to startling news and video of fire ravaging homes and resort structures toward the east in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge in the Great Smoky Mountains. When messengers to the Tennessee Baptist Convention held their annual
On a recent weekend, my wife, son and I were readying what will be our retirement home in our native state of Illinois. We have not lived in the southern part of the state since traveling off to seminary 39 years ago. We’ll live closer
Wells Fargo, banking and investment giant, is on the hot seat, to say the least. News-watchers are inclined to think that if they looked up ethics violations in the dictionary, they would see the company’s logo. After all, the Wells Fargo employees created millions of
Since I was a youngster, I have watched television coverage of the Olympics, both summer and winter versions. I do not follow many sports competitions regularly, but I enjoy following some of the story lines in various individual and team competitions on this world stage.
A visit with a Social Security staffer a few weeks ago turned out to be instructive for me as I gathered information to make informed decisions in anticipation of formal retirement in a few months. The staffer was both very well informed on the ins-and-outs
Recent deaths of black men at the hands of authorities — Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in a St. Paul, Minn., suburb — and the murders of Officers Patrick Zamarripa, Brent Thompson, Lorne Ahrens, Michael Smith and Michael Krol by a