by Robert Parham | Jul 31, 2009 | Opinion
The global economic system received a sharp moral critique from the president of the Baptist World Alliance in a report to worldwide Baptists meeting in Ede, Netherlands. “[T]he current unfettered free market system is flawed,” said BWA president David...
by Robert Parham | Jul 30, 2009 | Opinion
An unassuming woman without theological credentials in a male-dominated faith tradition may be one of the most transformative figures at the Baptist World Alliance’s annual gathering in Ede, Netherlands. “I’m not a theologian. I’m not a...
by Robert Parham | Jul 28, 2009 | Opinion
The human embryo is a human being with moral status whether in a test tube or a woman’s womb and deserves enough respect not to be destroyed for its stem cells, argued a philosophy professor in an academic paper presented at the Baptist World Alliance meeting in...
by Robert Parham | Jul 27, 2009 | Opinion
Baptists still face state-sponsored religious discrimination, 400 years after the first Baptists sought religious freedom from the intolerant King James I of England, head of the Church of England. One such place is the Republic of Serbia. The Serbian government...
by Robert Parham | Jul 27, 2009 | Opinion
British Christians and Muslims have tackled a thorny theological problem for both faiths — how to be faithful to the missionary impulse in one’s own tradition while respecting the other tradition. Launched in January 2006, the Christian Muslim Forum builds on...
