Southern Baptist Convention leaders will meet with international Baptist leaders in July in Warsaw to create a "new alternative" to the Baptist World Alliance, according to Richard Land, president of the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

Christian Century, Feb 22, 2005

Southern Baptist Convention leaders will meet with international Baptist leaders in July in Warsaw to create a "new alternative" to the Baptist World Alliance, according to Richard Land, president of the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. He mentioned the plans January 18 in Washington during a panel discussion on unrelated matters.

The SBC withdrew last year from the Baptist World Alliance over its alleged "liberal drift." A July meeting would compete with the Baptist World Congress July 27-31 in Birmingham, England, when BWA will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Morris Chapman, the SBC'S chief executive, though confirming that the July meeting in Poland will take place, declined to call it an "organizational" meeting but said rather that it was one among many in the next few years.