VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/31/16)—The current issue of American Baptist Quarterly (ABQ) entitled “John Bunyan and the Baptist Academy” features articles written by participants in the Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy which met in July, 2015 at Regent’s Park College in Oxford, England. During the conference each scholar spoke about his or her submitted article. […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/31/16)—On June 11, 1951, in Buffalo, New York, sixteen hundred women from the American Baptist Convention met to form the National Council of American Baptist Women, now American Baptist Women’s Ministries. Over 63,000 women’s names are on the original charter. On Saturday, July 23, 2016, American Baptist Women’s Ministries will celebrate […]
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 3/31/16)—The Rev. Dr. Paul Martin, president/CEO and professor of Pastoral Theology at American Baptist Seminary of the West (ABSW), Berkeley, Calif., died on March 23 in Denver. As ABSW’s president/CEO, Martin was committed to ensuring that the seminary prepared individuals for 21st-century ministry. Under his leadership, the seminary became ecumenical, serving […]
Happy Eastertide! Christ is risen! Macrina Wiederkehr wrote: “We are called to help others experience Resurrection, to help them break out of their tombs. Of course, that means we’ll have to break forth from our own tombs first. We’d look kind of silly preaching from the inside of our tombs, wouldn’t we?” Easter is an […]
