American Baptist Historical Society Announces Call for Papers for Torbet Prize
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 7/10/17)—The American Baptist Historical Society announces a Call for Papers for the Torbet Prize. This $500 award is given yearly for the best essay in any area of Baptist History. Each year ABHS seeks essays from authors who have not already been published in a major scholarly work. The Research and Publication Committee […]
American Baptist Women’s Ministries Announces Officers Elected for 2017-2020 Term
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 7/10/17)—American Baptist Women’s Ministries announces the national officers elected for the 2017-2020 term. The election of officers was held during the annual meeting of American Baptist Women’s Ministries on Friday, June 29, 2017, at Women’s Day in the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Ore. Treasurer Colleen Charsky, of Pulaski, New York, has served […]
American Baptist Churches Biennial Mission Summit Concludes with Celebration of Local Church Pastors, Communion
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 7/5/17)—The 2017 Biennial Mission Summit of American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) ended on Sunday, July 2, with a communion service and a time of celebrating local church pastors. Four pastors from different parts of the country and representing different church environments were interviewed to give a window into their lives as church […]
A Reflection on the 2017 Biennial Mission Summit
Ken Williams, Interim Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Connecticut, shared a thoughtful reflection following the Biennial Mission Summit, June 30-July 2, 2017, in Portland, Ore. Read about Williams’ time at the Biennial Mission Summit, below: Baptists, by our very nature – must find our unity in mission. We are not immune to the […]
Run it forward official charity
We wanted to do more, but realistically, we could only do so much. We were actually thinking of doing a repeat of the novels-in-verse theme in the near future, we shall see how that goes. AYSWe wanted to do more, but realistically, we could only do so much. We were actually thinking of doing a repeat of the novels-in-verse theme in the near future, we shall see how that goes.
The future for learning
The mechanism of this kind of learning seems similar to the appearance of spontaneous order, or ‘emergent phenomena’ in chaotic systems. From the slums of India, to the villages of India and Cambodia, to poor schools in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA and Italy, to the schools of Gateshead and the rich international schools of Washington and Hong Kong, Sugata’s experimental results show a strange new future for learning.
Providing water for charity
In an effort to change that statistic, we have compiled a list of seven organizations, ranging from nonprofits to good doing companies, who are on a mission to ensure that everyone has drinkable water. Feel free to tell us about other water organizations who are guaranteeing that clean water isn’t a privilege, but a right.
Accelerating the elimination of trachoma
Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. It is one of 18 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that affect over one billion of the world’s poorest people. Trachoma is caused by a contagious bacterial infection of the eye spread from person to person through contact with contaminated hands
Our question reached the United Nations!
A few weeks ago we asked you to help get a question about disability on the agenda for discussions with the candidates for United Nations Secretary General – and it worked! Our question was put to candidate Natalia Gherman of Moldova by video during the informal dialogue sessions held with the candidates over the past few days in New York. In her answer, Gherman spoke of “more participation” and “more representation” for people with disabilities (see more of her response below).