Most popular features/interviews 2018

**Edith Gates; a clothing company with social responsibility; welcoming Iranian asylum seekers: these were the most read features in The Baptist Times in 2018**

1 Edith Gates: A Baptist Pioneer
A century ago, Edith Gates was the first woman to be recognised as being in pastoral charge of an English Baptist church. What do we know about her?

2 'A clothing company with a social responsibility'
More Lord is a clothing company with a difference. Interview with founder and CEO JD Vance, a member of The Gate, a Baptist church in Reading

3 Welcoming Iranian asylum seekers
Minister Jonathan Keyworth shares how life at Heywood Baptist Church has been transformed

4 Develop a healthier relationship with food
Dr Deborah Lycett introduces a new church-based programme for people who struggle with food in some way

5 The loneliness of the long distance carer
A recent study explored the lives of churchgoing carers of people with dementia – and revealed several lessons

Baptist Times, 31/12/2018

The challenge and opportunity of microchurch planting

'Resources (of people, finance and goodwill) are often hard to come by, metrics are not kind... but these experimental groups contain the seeds to our survival' Dave Criddle reports from a recent gathering focused on microchurch

The Boy at the Back of the Bus

Interview with Antoinette Brooks, Baptist church member and author of a new book documenting the childhood of Martin Luther King

Rediscovering the magic of Christmas

We can find a fresh perspective on the nativity story by considering some of the less familiar texts that point to and talk about the birth of the Saviour, writes John Hayward

Sharing the Christian story with your local schools

A presentation that has seen hundreds of thousands of pupils learn more about the Christian faith at Christmas and Easter marks its 30th anniversary next year – and it is hoped even more churches and schools could be involved

‘It will help you encounter Jesus in new and deeper ways’

Mosaic Creative has announced the release of a new book and audiobook of biblical monologues for churches called Following the Son by Jackie Mouradian

Different types of small church

The Small Church Connexion team is testing out different categories of small church, from a new plant to one that is choosing to close. These are imprecise categories which need to be fleshed out, but can help us strengthen the resource we offer

The Baptist Times

Features

The challenge and opportunity of microchurch planting

Posted: 20/11/2024

The Boy at the Back of the Bus

Posted: 16/11/2024

Rediscovering the magic of Christmas

Posted: 14/11/2024

Sharing the Christian story with your local schools

Posted: 23/10/2024

‘It will help you encounter Jesus in new and deeper ways’

Posted: 21/10/2024