Baptist Without An Adjective

This episode features testimony by Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor during a public hearing about if a Confederate monument in Jefferson City, Missouri, should be removed. Already this year many monuments have been removed (see list at cwmemory.com). Check to see if your community has such a memorial that you can work to undermine and remove: tinyurl.com/confederatemarkers.

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

Nabil Costa, executive director of the Lebanese Society for Educational & Social Development (also known as the Lebanese Baptist Society), talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about the work of LSESD amid various crises in Lebanon. You can see footage from the damage at some of their ministries in a video they made right after the Aug. 4 blast in Beirut. And you find ways to partner with them at mebo.org.

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

Elie Haddad, president of Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about the work of ABTS amid various crises in Lebanon. He discusses economic and political struggles, as well as ministering in new ways due to coronavirus and the massive August 4 explosion in Beirut just miles from ABTS.

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

This episode features a sermon by Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor on faith during a time like this. Preached at First Baptist Church in Columbia, Missouri, for an online service, the sermon considers a story in 1 Chronicles 21.

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Greg Morrow, executive director of the Future Leadership Foundation, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about navigating international missions partnerships during the coronavirus pandemic. He also discusses living in Ukraine and working with Christian leaders in several countries.

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

Ryan Andrew Newson, assistant professor of theology and ethics at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about Confederate monuments and how Christians can challenge them. He is the author of the new book Cut in Stone: Confederate Monuments and Theological Disruption.

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

Quinton Lucas, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about leading his city amid coronavirus and protest against racial injustice. He also discusses the impact of his faith on his work.

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Bruce Gourley of Good Faith Media talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about issues of racism among Baptists prior to and during the Civil War. And he discusses how Baptists should tell that history today and learn from it.

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

This episode features a conversation originally scheduled as an in-person workshop at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's general assembly in Atlanta, Georgia, which couldn't happen due to coronavirus. So, the panel conversation moved to a virtual format to consider the whys and hows of podcasting. Panelists are Cherilyn Crowe of the BJC Podcast, Cliff Vaughn of the Brother Molly podcast, and Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor.

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

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, an author, activist, and minister, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about issues of racism and justice. He discusses the Poor People's Campaign event on June 20, dismantling of Confederate monuments, and slaveholder religion.

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