How can you reduce the possibility of a child being sexually abused? Scott Floyd, director of Counseling Programs at B.H. Carroll Theological Institute, provides guidance and resources for preparing children and their environments to be safer places.

Life is like a flag at half-staff. Half-staff is a place of mourning, not a place of rest. From half-staff, the flag can go either up or down. Up is triumph. Down is a place of honor after a day well-served. Up is where we all want to be. Down at least means we’re tucked away safely out of the weather. Isn’t life like that?

Immigration is a current hot topic. As a caravan of migrants finishes its long trip through Mexico and reaches the border of the United States, what will we do? As refugees from violence-torn places seek shelter, what will we do? What should we do?

Editor Eric Black reviews “You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us” by Kent Annan.

Editor Eric Black reviews “Hidden Christmas” by Timothy Keller.

Mary Alice Birdwhistell, pastor of Calvary Baptist in Waco, is the subject of the first in a series of documentaries about women in ministry co-produced by Ethics Daily and Baptist Women in Ministry.

This Thanksgiving, in many ministry families, the pastor at the table will be expected to say grace. But in the Crosby and Curry families, they may have to play “Rock, Paper, Scissors” to decide which pastor will pray.

If you can read this, be thankful. Someone taught you to read, which took time and patience. Now you can get ahead in life because you can read. Others are staying behind or falling behind because they can’t. But you can change that.

Editor Eric Black reviews “Stumbling Toward Wholeness” by Andrew J. Bauman.

“There’s a lot of lessons to learn here, not just that the Left and the Right can still agree on some things, but also this: Americans can forgive one another,” Dan Crenshaw said.

My experience as a pastor and now as a budding steward of the Baptist Standard Publishing Company tells me we do not want an impartial media—or pastorate. We may like the idea of an impartial media, but our behavior says otherwise.

Editor Eric Black reviews “America’s Unholy Ghosts: The Racist Roots of Our Faith and Politics” by Joel Edward Goza.