Baptist Without An Adjective

Trisha Miller Manarin, executive coordinator for Mid-Atlantic Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about ministry in the U.S. and globally in her roles with MACBF, the John Leland Center for Theological Studies, and the Baptist World Alliance. She also discusses a recent conference on women in ministry. This interview was recorded at the annual gathering of the North American Baptist Fellowship.

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

Brian Ford, executive director of Churchnet, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about ministering and partnering together in the 21st century. He also discusses being honest about church history and learning from Baptists in Cuba, Guatemala, Venezuela, and elsewhere.

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

Stephen Reeves, associate coordinator of partnerships & advocacy for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about faith-based advocacy. He also discusses key issues CBF advocacy focus on, as well as his background with other Baptist advocacy organizations.

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

Francisco Litardo, vice president for marketing and community engagement at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kansas, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about his ministry of storytelling through photography and other forms of media. He also discusses his early childhood in Ecuador and a reporting trip to Bangladesh to visit a refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar. Litardo is vice chair of Word&Way's board of trustees, and his photos have appeared in several issues of Word&Way magazine.

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

This episode features remarks by Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor and other media leaders about media bias and racism. These comments occurred in August at the West Louisville Forum sponsored by Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville, Kentucky.

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

Curtis Freeman, a research professor of theology and Baptist studies & director of the Baptist House of Studies at Duke Divinity School, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about the educational program at Duke Divinity. He also discusses the recent five-year dialogue between the Baptist World Alliance and the World Methodist Council, which he co-chaired and from which he helped produce a report and a study guide. This interview occurred in the Bahamas during the 2019 annual gathering of the BWA.

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

Didi Oprenova, a Baptist pastor in Bulgaria, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about ministry in her country and the transition there from communism. She also discusses laws proposed last year that would have greatly reduced religious freedom in Bulgaria. This interview occurred in the Bahamas during the 2019 annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance. Oprenova is a vice president of the BWA.

(This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and the Social Justice Revival on Sept. 22 in Kansas City, Mo.)

Devon Dick, a Baptist pastor in Jamaica, talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about the biblical case for slavery reparations. He also discusses the heritage of Jamaican Baptists and his local ministry at his church and through a secular newspaper column. This interview occurred in the Bahamas during the 2019 annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance.

(This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and the Social Justice Revival on Sept. 22 in Kansas City, Mo.)

Forrest Harris, president of American Baptist College in Nashville, Tenn., talks with Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor about the work and heritage of ABC. He also discusses the school's role in the civil rights movement, and how he came to lead ABC. This interview occurred in the Bahamas during the 2019 annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance.

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

This episode features an "Angela Project" prayer service held on Aug. 19 at First Baptist Church in Jefferson City, Mo. Leaders during the service included Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor; Doyle Sager, Hannah Coe, and Jan Watson of FBC; Cornell Sudduth of Second Baptist Church in Jefferson City; Cassandra Gould of Missouri Faith Voices and Quinn Chapel AME Church in Jefferson City; and Jeremy Secrist of St. Peter Catholic Church in Jefferson City.

The service part of a litany created by Simmons College of Kentucky to commemorate the 400th anniversary, on August 20, of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in what is now the United States. The service also included a report on how many early FBC leaders were slaveholders.