The Baptist Scholars International Roundtable (BSIR) promotes scholarship from Baptist perspectives across the ages and around the globe by facilitating a scholarly forum for the exchange of ideas. Housed at the Baptist Studies Research Center at Baylor's Department of Religion, BSIR is a program supported by a consortium of member schools and partners. The BSIR community is international, intergenerational, interdisciplinary, and invites a diversity of Baptist affiliations. At the heart of the Roundtable is formation for academic stewardship in which a newer generation is welcomed into an international Baptist Academy and formed to preserve and sustain both academic and faith communities. At annual roundtable meetings hosted at Christ Church, Oxford, England, senior scholars (BSIR Fellows) and a Visiting Fellow engage with the developing ideas of doctoral students and early- and mid-career faculty (BSIR Scholars), who present papers selected through a competitive process.