A group of 16 participants attending the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) Annual Gathering in Jamaica took the opportunity to tour a number of historical sites significant to Baptists on the Caribbean island. Visits were made to the site of the first Baptist church in...
A research fellow connected with Regent's Park College, Oxford University, in the United Kingdom, claimed that Jamaican National Hero Samuel Sharpe, a Baptist deacon executed for leading a slave uprising in the 1830s, was a prophet and martyr. Jamaican-born Delroy...
Baptists in Jamaica put on a cultural and culinary display to welcome participants at the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) Annual Gathering from July 1-6. The more than 400 Baptists from 40 countries traveled to the Roaring River Great House where they were treated to...
Panelists at a session on gender equality and gender-based violence during the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) Annual Gathering said that the church should address these issues within its midst and in society. Elsa Leo-Rhynie, former pro vice chancellor for...
Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) General Secretary Neville Callam said that the BWA faces four major challenges in its participation in international dialogues with other Christian traditions: different attitudes to ecumenism within the BWA family, the difficulty of...
According to Deji Ayegboyin, president and chief executive officer of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, the prosperity gospel has influenced a large number of Christians across a broad section of the Christian faith. "It is obvious that prosperity teaching is a...
Worship has always been at the center of Baptist life but "spiritual worship," as described by Douglas Weaver, has always been understood and practiced differently by Baptists. Weaver was speaking during the 8th Baptist International Conference on Theological...
Healing has various dimensions, physical, emotional, relational and spiritual. But more directly, healing is also related to the atonement, said Graham Hill, senior lecturer in applied theology at Morling Baptist Theological College in Sydney, Australia, during the...
The Spirit-filled life has profound implications for social justice and outreach, said Burchell Taylor, a vice president of the Baptist World Alliance® (BWA) at the 8th Baptist International Conference on Theological Education (BICTE). Taylor, who spoke on the topic...
Baptists, historically, are pre-occupied with Christology – doctrines concerning the nature and person of Christ – than with pneumatology – doctrines concerning the Holy Spirit. According to William Brackney, professor of Christian thought and ethics at Acadia...