National news stories in 2025

Praying Together 2025

Here at the start of a new year I want to call our movement to a continued commitment to prayer in the year ahead, writes General Secretary Lynn Green

Firestarters events in 2025

More Firestarters conversations are planned for this year, each with a microchurch focus, as well as leadership huddles

Ways you can join with the Project Violet lament

From now until Baptist Assembly 2025 all of Baptists Together are encouraged to join the Project Violet lament - and co-leader Jane Day shares ways you can take part

Slow wisdom: new discernment resources for Baptists

A new discernment training resource for churches based on academic research launched at the Centre for Baptist Studies at Regent's Park College, Oxford

Communion focus for Baptist Theology in the North

There will be a focus on Baptists and communion at this year's Baptist Theology in the North on 28 March

New films share the story of our radical roots

Andy Goodliff introduces Radical Roots - a series of films from the Baptist Historical Society telling the stories of five people to help better understand where Baptists came from

United in Mission - Baptist Assembly 2025

This year's Baptist Assembly will explore what we can learn about local mission using global insight

St Hild Centre for Baptist Ministry now registered with the Office for Students

Eligible students at the centre will now, for the first time, be able to access student finance, including loans for both undergraduate and postgraduate study

'We urge the Government to rethink its decision immediately'

General Secretary Lynn Green has joined Methodist, Church of Scotland and United Reformed Church leaders in expressing regret and lament at the Prime Minister’s announcement of further cuts to the international development budget

Fresh Streams calls Baptists Together to a day of prayer and fasting

Fresh Streams is calling Baptist churches, ministers, and individuals across the UK to unite in a dedicated day of prayer and fasting on Thursday, 27 March 2025

Flowing faith from one generation to the next

The Baptist Union of Great Britain with BMS World Mission are launching a new church resource to help those considering an ongoing blessing to support God’s mission both in the UK and overseas

Churches invited to apply for science-faith funding

Churches across the UK can now apply for a grant of up to £10,000 for a project which creatively brings together their faith and a scientific topic

'A privilege to see the ripple effects of Project Violet impact the Baptist global family'

Participants have been reflecting on the Project Violet International Symposium, which saw more than 30 Baptist women from 10 countries deliver theological papers and engage in plenary discussion

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