This brief article traces some of the story of English Baptists with regards to gender and race in the last forty years and how the summons to be heard by women and people of colour has brought change to the Baptist Union of Great Britain and to Baptist life more widely.
Andy Goodliff is a Baptist minister in Southend-on-Sea and completed his doctorate in Baptist Studies at the University of St Andrews in 2018, published in 2020 as Renewing a Modern Denomination.