by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 3, 2009 | Opinion
One of the best things about attending each year’s annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance is that I get to spend a little time with Eddie Enim, an impressive pastor-leader who lives near the coast of southern Ghana.I first met Eddie through the BWA’s “Emerging...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 1, 2009 | Opinion
Businesses have different ways to express appreciation for our patronage. It’s the boisterous “Welcome to Mo’s” greeting that arrives before the oddly-named burritos and other entrees. At Chick-Fil-A, “my pleasure” has replaced...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 31, 2009 | Opinion
AMSTERDAM — As Baptist World Alliance representatives gathered July 30 to celebrate 400 years of Baptist life, former secretary general Denton Lotz told them that Baptists must continue the struggle for religious freedom or else become irrelevant.Meeting in the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 31, 2009 | Opinion
EDE, THE NETHERLANDS — John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV), will be the nominee for president when the BWA convenes for its World Congress in Honolulu next summer. Upton was recommended by a nominating committee...
by Robert Parham | Jul 31, 2009 | Opinion
John Upton has been nominated to be the president-elect of the Baptist World Alliance, the largest organization of global Baptists with some 37 million baptized believers. If elected at the BWA’s 20th Baptist World Congress in Honolulu, Upton will begin a...
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...
