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

‘Christ is Lord’ is new EP from worship leader Luke

UK worship leader and songwriter Luke Wareham has released his latest collection of songs - and the overall theme is about how having Jesus as the centre of our life changes everything

Supporting socially isolated older people

What can the church (and wider society) do to reach and support people for whom social isolation and loneliness are part of a daily reality? A reflection by Linking Lives' founder and outgoing national director Jeremy Sharpe

Join the movement: a day to catalyse church planting and evangelism

Simon Goddard shares details about the Everyone Everywhere National Conference on Tuesday 8 October

To hope and act with creation

Links to resources - or pages which collate resources - for this year's Season of Creation. Compiled by Dave Gregory, convenor of BUEN, The Baptist Union Environment Network

'Imagine a world without the need for food banks'

Interview with Jessica Foster, head of Church Engagement at the Trussell Trust

Music review: Standing on the Edge by Rob Halligan

Encapsulating a range of moods, Rob's voice is layered with pain, practice, grace and love. There is an edge to his music - and that's where its power lies, writes Shaun Lambert

The Baptist Times

Features

‘Christ is Lord’ is new EP from worship leader Luke

Posted: 19/09/2024

Supporting socially isolated older people

Posted: 17/09/2024

Join the movement: a day to catalyse church planting and evangelism

Posted: 12/09/2024

To hope and act with creation

Posted: 11/09/2024

'Imagine a world without the need for food banks'

Posted: 05/09/2024