Truth, Love and Unity: Challenges of Russian-Ukrainian War to European Baptists
October 19-21, 2023, Warsaw, Poland
All recordings of the presentations are visible on our YouTube.
“The Uniting Impact of War” by Alan Donaldson
"Putin Has Cured Me of My Pacifism" by Joshua T. Searle
"Church Unity in the Shadow of Bucha" by Oleksandr Geychenko
"Born in Battle: Changing Early English Baptist Attitudes to the Civil War" by Steve Holmes
"Kairos Collisions in Conflict" by Juliet Kipling
"Systems of Power and the Faith of the Powerless. Where is the Kingdom of God?" by Peter Tamm
"Integrity Questioned by War" by Meego Remmel
"Unknown Wounds of the War" by Oksana Grytsiuta
“The challenge of the Russian-Ukrainian war to European Baptists” by panelists: Igor Bandura, Tony Peck, David McMillan, Stanislav Synii
"Prospects for the Development of Ukrainian Theological Education during and after the War" by Eduard Sablon
"Reflections on Theological and Cultural engagement of Ukrainian Protestant Church with Challenges that War Brought in Ukraine" by Yaroslav Pyzh
Texts of Presentations
Theology and COVID-19: Backgrounds and Reactions to Conspiracy Narratives
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 September 2021 — Prof. Dr Michael Rohde
Consultation: Political Tensions of Today and the Church: Exploring Baptist Engagement in Europe
Elstal, Germany, 20-22 November 2019
Consultation on Homosexuality
Smidstrup Strand, Denmark, 16-18 November 2016
Resources from different Unions used at the consultation and for use within unions and churches who want to have a conversation around this topic:
Baptist Union of Great Britain. Letter re Council Statement. 2016
Uwe Swarat. Proposition on Dealing with homosexual people in Christian congregation. 2016
Uwe Swarat. Thesen zum Umgang mit Homosexuellen in der christlichen Gemeinde (in German)
A statement from a group of British Baptist Ministers and Theologians (link to the website)
Consultation on Freedom of Religion or Belief
27-28 September 2015
Video material
Texts of Presentations
Symposium "Baptist Churches and Changing Society: Middle East Experience"
14-17 June 2012
Symposium "Baptist Churches and Changing Society: West European Experience"
12-13 August 2011
Gunnar Bremer: Baptist churches and society in Germany - some insights
Mattias Neve: Baptist Churches and Nordic society A challenge for incarnated mission
Michael Kisskalt: Ethnic Churches and German Baptist Culture
Nabil K Costa: Baptist Churches on the crossroads of Western and Middle-East Cultures
Symposium "Baptist Churches and Changing Society: Eastern-European Experience"
30 Sep - 2 Oct 2010
Gunnel Andréasson: Baptists and Society in Eastern Europe – A Swedish Perspective
Corneliu Boingeanu: How We Interpret Our Story? New Challenges for Romanian Baptists
Oļegs Jermolājevs: Latvian Baptists From 1990: New Beginnings
Alexander Popov: Russian Baptists and Sectarian Image in Society since 1990
Zbigniew Wierzchowski: Polish Baptist and Polish National Identity since 1980
Michael Rohde: Challenges for East German Baptists in Times of Change after 1989
Communities of Conviction: Baptist Beginnings in Europe by Ian M. Randall
European Baptist Federation, 2009
Published by Neufeld Verlag
ISBN: 978-3-937896-78-6
Hardcover
Price €15
Shipping cost for 1-3 books €5
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Ian Randall, who comes from the north of Scotland, studied Economics and History at Aberdeen University, where he met and married Janice, who is a language teacher. After university, Ian worked in human resource management. He later trained at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and became a Baptist pastor. Since 1992 he has taught and has supervised research at Spurgeon’s College, London, and at the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague. He has published several books, including What a Friend we have in Jesus, The English Baptists of the Twentieth Century and Spiritual Revolution: The Story of OM. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Ian Randall has given us the most comprehensive overview of Baptist life in Europe since the classic study of J. H. Rusbrooke in 1923. Born amidst persecutions and struggle, the Baptist movement has grown over the centuries into a diverse but vibrant expression of the Christian faith. A story masterfully told by a superb historian.
Timothy George Founding Dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama (USA) and a senior editor of Christianity Today
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This fascinating volume is more than a compilation of the stories of the regional beginnings of the one European Baptist family; it is a testimony of the enduring grace and goodness of God to a missionary people called Baptist.
David Coffey President of the Baptist World Alliance
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The more we are aware of our deep roots, the wider we can spread our wings to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. Easy to read and yet hard to digest when we realise just how rich and how challenging our heritage is, Randall’s book is more than a review of our past – it points to our current responsibility and our future calling as Baptists within the whole church of Jesus Christ.
Regina Claas General Secretary of the Union of Evangelical Free Churches (Baptists) in Germany
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