Church Without Walls: Post-Soviet Baptists after the Ukrainian Revolution, 2013-14, Joshua T. Searle, 2016

How can we sing the Lord’s Song?: Worship in and out of the Church (2008) Sally Nelson, A Thousand Crucifixions: The Materialist Subversion of the Church? (2009) David Southall, The Poetic Paul: On Creating New Realities for Righteousness in Romans (2010) E. Anne Clements, Wrestling with the Word: A Woman reads Scripture (2011) Ian M. Randall, Religious Liberty in Continental Europe: Campaigning by British Baptists, 1840s to 1930s (2012) Michael J. Peat, Answering Mendel’s Dwarf: Thinking Theologically about Genetic Selection (2013) Helen J. Dare, Always on the way and in the fray: Reading the Bible as Baptists (2014) Ed Kaneen, What is Biblical ‘Ministry’?: Revisiting diakonia in the New Testament (2015) Joshua T. Searle, Church Without Walls: Post-Soviet Baptists After the Ukrainian Revolution, 2013-14 (2016) The Whitley Lecture The Whitley Lecture was first established in 1949 in honour of W.T. Whitley (1861-1947), the Baptist minister and historian. Following a pastorate in Bridlington, during which he also taught at Rawdon College in Yorkshire, Whitley became the first Principal of the Baptist College of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, in 1891. This institution was later renamed Whitley College in his honour. Whitley was a key figure in the formation of the Baptist Historical Society in 1908. He edited its journal, which soon gained an international reputation for the quality of its contents — a reputation it still enjoys nearly a century later as the Baptist Quarterly. His A History of British Baptists (London: Charles Griffin, 1923) remains an important source of information and comment for contemporary historians. Altogether he made an important contribution to Baptist life and self-understanding in Britain and Australia, providing a model of how a pastor-scholar might enrich the life and faith of others. The establishment of the annual lecture in his name is designed as an encouragement to research and writing by Baptist scholars, and to enable the results of this work to be published. The giving of grants, advice and other forms of support by the Lectureship Committee serves the same purpose. The committee consists of representatives of the British Baptist Colleges, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, BMS World Mission, the Baptist Ministers’ Fellowship and the Baptist Historical Society. These organizations also provide financial support for its work. The Whitley Committee is delighted that Joshua Searle has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual lecture for 2016. Joshua is on the staff of Spurgeon's College and lectures in Theology and Public Thought, having spent time living and teaching in Ukraine, where he has family, through his marriage, and many personal friends. His passion for this country and the work and witness of the Baptist Church there is not just of political interest in this rapidly changing part of the world. In exploring the complex relationship of Ukra