by Jonathan Langley | Aug 8, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: the following column may contain material that could be disturbing to some readers. “I’m not a fan of Gandhi,” an Indian academic visiting the United Kingdom from Bangalore told me recently. “And I think that the complicity between colonial...
by Leroy Seat | May 30, 2018 | Opinion
There have been missionaries to “foreign” places and ethnic groups from the time of the Apostle Paul to the present. The modern Protestant missionary movement, however, began with Englishman William Carey in 1792. Building upon Carey’s groundbreaking...
by Baptist Times Staff | Jun 11, 2012 | News
A slice of history that binds a Baptist missionary pioneer, India and one of the world’s leading botanical gardens has been rediscovered. Although William Carey is probably best known for founding the Baptist Missionary Society (now BMS World Mission), it is...
by Baptist Times Staff | Aug 22, 2011 | News
Baptist churches around Great Britain celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Carey over the weekend. Born on Aug. 17, 1761, Carey, a Baptist minister, linguist and botanist, is often dubbed the “father of modern mission.” In 1792, he...
by Mark Woods | May 17, 2007 | Opinion
William Carey published his “Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Convert the Heathens” in 1792. Its title was not exactly snappy, but its effect was seismic. From it arose the modern missionary movement. We know about this, but there is a...
