“Woven: Threads of Baptist Identity”

In September 2025, the Theology and Education commission organized a one-day conference about Baptist identity. It looked at the issue from different perspectives. General Secretary of EBF Alan Donaldson had a short introduction to the topic of the conference.

Other presentations were as follows:

• Rami Halaseh – Confessional Foundations: Seventeenth-Century Baptist Theology and Its Contemporary Significance

• Yohanna Katanacho – Pitfalls and Promises of Preaching from the Old Testament   

• Anthony Peck – “For freedom Christ has set us free!” – revisiting a Baptist understanding of freedom.

• Toivo Pilli -  Baptist Identity as Narrative

• Anna Robbins – The Lordship of Christ and Baptist Identity: Navigating Authority, Autonomy,  and Allegiance in a Fragmented World  

As identity is a dynamic and living concept, the discussion will go on. However, one trend was visible – our identity as Baptists is not about propositions, it's a narrative. And every generation, every person shares this narrative in their own way. We are all woven into one story by our own small stories. This makes us a colourful and creative movement.