by Andrea King | Jan 22, 2020 | Opinion
I started my working life in a small charity in London that reached out to children and young people who’d been entirely let down. Most were street homeless, getting by doing what they needed to do every day, to find something to eat and somewhere to sleep. My job...
by Andrea King | Jan 21, 2020 | Opinion
When Paul painted a picture of a body of Christ in which hand and foot, eye and ear, were equally valued and welcomed (1 Corinthians 12 and Romans 12:4-8), he set forth a radical call for inclusion. It was no mean feat to bring Jew and Greek, men and women, slave and...
by Paul Hobson | Apr 9, 2019 | News
Yinka Oyekan has been elected president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain for 2020-21. Oyekan is the senior pastor of The Gate, a Baptist church in Reading, England, and was one of two nominations for the post; the other nominee was Dawn Cole-Savidge, communities...
by Sian Murray Williams | Jan 18, 2019 | Opinion
When Googling images for a PowerPoint presentation on “Baptist Women in Ministry” some years ago, I was a little startled to see the first image that popped up was a poster for the film, “Attack of the 50ft Woman.” It was an image that would doubtless have empowered...
by Beth Allison-Glenny | Jan 15, 2019 | Opinion
I’ve spent a long time trying to understand how and if women are different to men. The conversation came up frequently as I discerned a call to ministry through my teen years and into university. There seemed to be two answers. The first said I couldn’t be a minister...
