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  Chris Tomlin encourages reflection and response

  In the busy days leading to Christmas, recording artist Chris Tomlin wants to help listeners respond to the reason for the season with the reflective worship songs on his second Christmas album, Adore.

  12/08/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Home for Christmas: Siblings find forever family

  Stephanie and Sam Patterson’s long and emotional quest to become parents finally was realized one year ago when they adopted four siblings through foster care.

  12/08/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Megachurch boom rolls on but concerns rise

  More Americans participate in megachurch worship than ever. But individual attendance is down to once or twice a month—or less.

  12/07/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Advent story filled with stress, minister says

  Christians shouldn’t set their expectations too high during Advent, because the season itself has a touch of stress built into it, some ministers insist.

  12/07/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  UT-Rio Grande Valley: Give thanks

  Student Missions Blog: Recently, the Baptist Student Ministry at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley hosted one of its biggest outreach events of the year.

  12/07/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Don Gibson to retire as Texas Baptist Men executive director

  Don Gibson, who has served Texas Baptist Men in a variety of roles over the last four decades, will retire as the missions organization’s executive director Dec. 31.

  12/03/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Texas can ‘do better’ through Community Partners, Everett insists

  Texas can improve its response to the poor, and churches can join other Community Partners in helping their most vulnerable neighbors gain access to government services, said Jeremy Everett, founding director of the Texas Hunger Initiative.

  12/03/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Foundation honors teacher who donated kidney to student

  Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio honored Lindsey Painter, a teacher who donated one of her kidneys to a student in her first-grade class.

  12/03/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Freeman focuses on transforming systems, shaping policies

  As a child, the daydreams of Kathryn Freeman, future attorney and public policy director for Texas Baptists’ Christian Life Commission, never centered on courtroom drama or legislative power plays. She wanted to be another Oprah Winfrey.

  11/30/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Baylor students help nonprofits focus on ministry, not tech issues

  When Baylor University senior James Payne saw the children involved in a church’s mentoring project reading books and engaging with their mentors, he knew his behind-the-scenes work was making a difference.

  11/24/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Bread for the World puts price tag on hunger: $160 billion in health care

  Widespread hunger and food insecurity in the United States add $160 billion to national health care spending, a Christian advocacy group reports.

  11/24/2015 - By Ken Camp

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  Faith will prevail over atheism, Oxford prof McGrath predicts

  New Atheism is in decline and will lose out to faith, which makes greater sense of reality, Alister McGrath, professor at the University of Oxford, said at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary.

  11/24/2015 - By Ken Camp