by Sarah Stone | Dec 17, 2013 | Opinion
Saru woke up unable to move her legs; she’d been unconscious for a week. She had no recollection of her family taking her to the hospital in Lucknow, India, of the doctors saying she would die or of her journey home to western Nepal. As she woke, her family told... by BWA Staff | Dec 11, 2013 | News
Baptist World Alliance (BWA) General Secretary Neville Callam offered praise to God and encouragement to Baptists in Myanmar during the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Baptist witness in the southeast Asian country. Callam, who delivered greetings at the... by Wm. Loyd Allen | Oct 31, 2013 | Opinion
Adoniram Judson lay starving in a filthy Burmese prison cell in 1824. Every night, his guards passed a long bamboo pole between his shackled legs and those of his fellow prisoners and lifted the pole up until only their shoulders and upper torsos touched the... by Michael Westmoreland-White | Dec 5, 2006 | Opinion
A popular contemporary stereotype is that Christians concerned with global evangelism and missions are tone deaf to questions of social justice, and those concerned with the latter have no evangelistic or missionary impulses. In fact, in Anabaptist and Baptist... by Mark Woods | Nov 8, 2005 | Opinion
Even today, the image that comes to mind when many people in Europe hear the word “missionary” probably includes pith helmets and the British Empire. Those days are long gone. The work of mission organizations like BMS is thoroughly contemporary, involving...