Baptist Without An Adjective

Rodney Calfee, content director for the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about the work of telling stories for the IMB. He also discusses the importance of storytelling and his own faith journey.

(This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.)

Mark DeYmaz, pastor of Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about his faith journey and his church in Little Rock, Ark. He also discusses some of his books on issues like multi-ethnic churches, justice, and church economics.

(This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.)

Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor. He discusses how and why LifeWay does research, as well some recent findings.

(This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.)

This bonus episode features a sermon by Elijah Brown, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. He delivered these remarks during the Churchnet spring gathering in St. Louis. In the sermon, he tells stories of challenges and growth among Baptists around the world. Hear his interview with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor in episode 72.

Elijah Brown, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor during the Churchnet spring gathering in St. Louis. He discusses the work of Baptists in South Korea, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Bangladesh, and elsewhere. He also urges Baptists to head to Together 2020 in Rio.

(This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.)

This special episode features testimony by Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor before the Missouri Senate's Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. The hearing featured debate over a proposed bill to ban anonymity in lawsuits involving the Establishment Clause. This episode also features updates on bills encouraging "Bible literacy" courses in public schools (that was previously explored in episode 55 and episode 68), and legislation mandating public schools post "In God We Trust" (that was previously explored in episode 68).

Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor during the BJC's Shurden Lectures on the campus of William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. She talks about several critical church-state issues that have sparked headlines in 2019, including "Bible literacy" legislation, religious liberty and the death penalty, the recent cross case before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the political campaign activity ban.

(This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.)

In this episode, Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor interviews Aidsand Wright-Riggins, former executive director of American Baptist Home Mission Societies, co-director of the New Baptist Covenant, and mayor of Collegeville, Penn. Wright-Riggins talks about religious liberty, racism, and ministry. This interview was recorded as he visited the Kansas City area to give the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty's Shurden Lectures on the campuses of William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., and Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kan.

(This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.)

This special episode features testimony by Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor before the Missouri House of Representatives Elementary and Secondary Education Committee. The hearing featured debate over a proposed bill to mandate public schools post "In God We Trust" in a prominent location. This episode also features updates on another bill encouraging a "Bible literacy" course in high schools (that was previously explored in episode 55). Both bills (and similar ones in other states) are part of the nationwide "Project Blitz" effort to undermine the separation of church and state.

In this episode, Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor reports on a church-state debate about prayer in city council meetings. To do so, he talks with Harold Phillips, a Baptist leader who serves as a city council member in Liberty, Mo.; and Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.

(This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.)