A Young Baptist’s Reason to Remain

By Ken Williams
The Baptist Standard
Five years ago, while studying at Texas A&M University, I took a job as the youth minister of a small Baptist church in the Conroe area north of Houston. Having been born and raised in a large Bible church, I entered the Baptist world relatively oblivious to the situation I was [...]

David Gushee on Baptist experience and the New Baptist Covenant

This blog is about perspectives on being Baptist. Sometimes the best way to do this is for individuals to describe their personal Baptist history… David Gushee has a wonderful column over at Associated Baptist Press entitled, “My Baptist journey to the New Baptist Covenant”. He describes his conversion to Christianity in a Baptist [...]

Let’s Talk About Being Baptist…

I spent a large part of this past fall traveling around Texas to different cities, listening to what young adults had to say about being Baptist. I was encouraged in many ways with what they had to say about being Baptist, about engaging the world for Christ.
I am sold on being Baptist. For [...]

John Grisham at the New Baptist Covenant

I love John Grisham’s books.  So I am additionally excited that he will be speaking at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in Atlanta, January 30-February 1, 2008.  Why is he speaking?
In announcing the addition of Grisham to the Covenant lineup Dec. 20, program co-chair Jimmy Allen described the author as “a Baptist [...]

Messy Ecclesiology

The following is a blog post from Craig Nash’s blog. on September 17, 2007.  Any of you who grew up Baptist– well, I think you may understand elementally what Craig is writing about.  Part of the purpose of this blog is to disseminate to a wider audience the voice of young Baptists- this is one [...]

Joining Together in Atlanta

Jimmy Carter has a brief opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today, where he talks about “Global Divisions faced as Baptists Plan to Convene.  He is talking, of course, about the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant, in Atlanta, Georgia, January 30-February 1, 2008.  He writes:
One of the basic premises will be that the doors [...]

Family Reunions…Lynchings or Love-ins?

An article by Peggy Hester, of North Carolina:
Michael and I are talking about going to a family reunion in January, a Baptist family reunion. It is the first Baptist event that has caught my imagination in a long, long while. The purpose is not to start a new denomination but to establish connection and [...]

Baptists in the Community- Voluntary cooperation of churches

I hear a lot that my generation is “post-denomination” and they feel that denominations are rather useless.  I have to disagree on several levels.  On the most basic front, however, Baptists have a distinctive that our denominations are built from the bottom up- individual churches voluntarily cooperate together in an effort to do more with [...]

Enjoy Fantastic Preaching? Come hear this…

Associated Baptist Press published this story on the Preach-In occurring at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in January 2008. Preachers from many different Baptist congregations will be on hand to fill our hearts and minds with the message of Christ. A significant draw will be the preaching of Rev. James Forbes:
James [...]

Baptist Unity

A comment over at the Texas Baptists blog on the next generation by a young pastor made mention of the fact that our generation has learned more about division than multiplication. And he’s right. But Baptists (who are Christians) should be about the business of multiplying the Kingdom not dividing it. Mitch [...]