News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

Both Robert Parham (EthicsDaily.com) and Tony Cartledge (Campbell University, Baptists Today) have provided excellent coverage of the 2008 gathering of the Baptist World Alliance. Below you’ll find snippets from Cartledge’s posts on the BWA and the Baptist International Conference on Theological Education (BICTE):
Newsblog: BWA Looks Inward, Outward (7/25)
Read Tony Cartledge’s overview coverage of the [...]

Below is a list of links to articles on the 2008 annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance held in Prague.
Global Baptists Gather Next Week in Prague with Record of Growth, Organizational Change (7/18)
(EthicsDaily.com) When the Southern Baptist Convention voted in June 2004 to withdraw from and defund the Baptist World Alliance, a tiny [...]

Here’s a bit of international Baptist news on the religious liberty front.
According to the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper (and several other sources), a large gathering of Baptists will be held next week in Ho Chi Minh City. The Vietnam Grace Baptist Church (a denomination) will holds its first General Conference from January [...]

Check out John Pierce’s latest post at Baptists Today Blogs.
Recently, John sat down with Neville Callam, the new General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. Read what was said:
Of his many open and interesting responses to my questions, I was intrigued by one in particular. Callum expects the Southern Baptists to return to the [...]

Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics has written an interesting article about a Jamaican Baptist pastor who is advocating reparations for descendants of African slaves.
Parham writes…
A Jamaican Baptist pastor forced the controversial question of compensation to modern-day African descendants for the imprisonment and forced labor of their ancestors at the annual gathering of [...]

Live from the Hotel.
Great General Session tonight.
After the missionaries were commissioned and songs were sung, President David Coffey of the Baptist World Alliance addressed the General Assembly. Coffey was introduced as THE Global Baptist leader who pushed and pushed for the CBF’s membership into the Baptist World Alliance. Indeed an excellent preacher, Coffey [...]