by BWA Staff | Oct 11, 2013 | News
Baptist World Alliance (BWA) General Secretary Neville Callam declared that Baptists need to take a resolute and strong stance against racism. Callam, who delivered the second annual Sam Sharpe Lecture on “The Deconstruction of Race” in the United Kingdom...
by Baptist Times Staff | Oct 2, 2013 | News
There is a need for urgent global action to avert global warning. That’s the view of a number of international development charities following the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. The IPCC report says scientists are now...
by BWA Staff | Sep 30, 2013 | News
The 2013 European Baptist Federation (EBF) Council convened in Bratislava, Slovakia, with a large turnout of leaders, pastors, teachers and other delegates to receive reports and recommendations and to reflect on issues affecting the family of Baptists in Europe. The...
by Baptist Times Staff | Sep 25, 2013 | News
Significant numbers of churches are now involved in the provision of a food bank, but can more be done to tackle the causes of food poverty? That’s the challenge posed in a new report from the Church Urban Fund, a Christian organization in England working to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 20, 2013 | News
The Miss America pageant crowned its first Indian-American winner Sunday night, and “Twitter blew up,” says Mandy McMichael, assistant professor of religion at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala. McMichael is a doctoral candidate at Duke University,...
by John Hall | Sep 17, 2013 | News
The Immigration Service and Aid Center (ISAAC) opened its doors on the Baptist University of the Américas (BUA) campus Aug. 30 to directly help people with their citizenship issues. ISAAC is Texas Baptists’ first effort to directly help immigrants work within...