Reparations Talk Emerges During Global Baptist Meeting

Reparations Talk Emerges During Global Baptist Meeting

Jamaican Baptist leaders raised the topic of reparations for slavery in multiple sessions of the annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance last week in Nassau, the Bahamas. Devon Dick, a Jamaican Baptist pastor, gave a presentation on the biblical case for...
Global Baptists Speak Out on Women, Intolerance

Global Baptists Speak Out on Women, Intolerance

Baptist leaders from about 40 nations voted to affirm women in ministry and to condemn religious-based intolerance during the annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance in Nassau, the Bahamas, last week. Both resolutions passed on July 11 after being discussed and...
Women, Baptists, and theology

Women, Baptists, and theology

Every five years or so, the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) sponsors a conference with the ungainly acronym of BICTE: the Baptist International Conference on Theological Education. Meeting either before or after the BWA’s Annual Gathering, the conference generally...