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Skype Interview: New British Baptist President “Big Hearted”
Chris Duffett, the new president of the BaptistUnionofGreatBritain, talked recently with EthicsDaily.com via Skype. The interview, which focuses on Duffett's work as a street evangelist, is now live on Vimeo. Duffett,...
El Salvadoran Pastor Accepts Baptist Human Rights Award
Edgar Palacios of El Salvador received the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award during a meeting of the General Council in Chile on July 6. The council forms part of the BWA annual...
Like water for chocolate …
You know it's hot outside when a "cold front" drops temperatures into the 90s. After a week at the Baptist World Alliance meeting in Chile, where it's winter and I needed a coat to venture outside the hotel, I returned...
What Baptists Need to Know about Their Human-Rights Heritage: Part 2
Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part excerpt of a presentation made at the annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance in Santiago, Chile. Read the first part here. We need to know that Germans were not...
Baptist Forum Shows Response to Chile’s Quake
Baptists gave a detailed report of their response to the devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake that affected the South American country on Feb. 27, 2010, at the Annual Gathering of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) held...
Global Baptists Step Forward to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
Global Baptists are acutely aware of the reality of global warming and are determined to act. At the annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) in Santiago, Chile, the largest network of worldwide Baptist...
4 Pastors Describe a Healthy Search Process
The search process for a new pastor is both an exhilarating and a risky time for a congregation. Healthy congregations go at this task from the framework of a spiritual discernment process that is unique to the free...
What Baptists Need to Know about Their Human-Rights Heritage: Part 1
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part excerpt of a presentation made at the annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance in Santiago, Chile. What Baptists need to know is that Richard Overton – the father of...
Could Those Who Make Your Shoes Afford Them?
They sell the just for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals. – Amos 2:6 Recently, I went cycling through Javanese villages not far from my home in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I visited rural communities and spent the...
All done …
The final day of the Baptist World Alliance's 2012 annual gathering dawned bright and clear, with the Andes shining brightly above the city. Down below, the BWA's General Council met for a final two sessions. Some...
Read Lynelle’s story; it is amazing
By John Pierce This blog may appear like a commercial. In a sense, I guess, it is. I am encouraging you to read a new book titled Tarnished Haloes, Open Hearts: A Story of Finding and Giving Acceptance by Lynelle...
Getting down to business …
After four days of forums, committee meetings, and commission sessions punctuated by many happy reunions of friends from around the world, the official business of the Baptist World Alliance got underway Friday morning...
Santa Maria, and stuff …
Rio de Janiero has its iconic 120-foot-tall Jesus looking over the city; Santiago has his mother. Atop Cerro San Cristobal, a healthy 45-minute uphill hike behind the hotel where the Baptist World Alliance is meeting,...
What Jesus Has to Say About God’s Economy
It is often said that Jesus had more to say about money than any other subject. From his statements about wealth and possessions, to his parables about agriculture and land, to his calling his followers to invest in...
Futurist’s View of Secular Culture, Technology on Target
"Forecaster of the Future, Is Dead at 81" headlines the obituary of Anthony J. Wiener in the New York Times. He and Herman Kahn in 1967 co-authored "The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three...
Help the Poor? Many Christians Prefer to Blame Them
One of the things that burdens me as a minister and as a Christian is the disdain that so many believers have about the poor in our world. There is a pervasive mythology that people are poor because they want to be....
The Heritage of Religious Liberty
A sermon delivered by Joel Snider, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga., on July 1, 2012. Matthew 22:15-22 Morning Prayer: O God, before you we know that the nations tremble, and by your might, all nations rise and...
Finish What You Start
A sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark, on July 1, 2012. Psalm 30:1-12; 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 The Apostle Paul was a powerful psychologist, or a masterful...
From Despair to Hope
A sermon delivered Robert Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., on July 1, 2012. Psalm 130 Communion Devotion “Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,” the Psalmist wrote. “Lord, hear my voice!”...
The Great Sadness
A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., July 1, 2012. Fourth Sunday after Pentecost II Samuel 1:1, 17-27 With over 10 million in sales it was no wonder that for...
Genuine Civility Rooted in God’s Character
As electioneering gets as intense as this summer heat wave, I'm hoping against hope for an outbreak of civility. Civility is a public virtue that is simple to praise and complicated to practice. It's easy to dream...