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From both his pulpit and his back porch, Kyle Childress has been asking questions about violence and war, poverty and wealth, and caring for God’s earth.
06/22/2015 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor
The Texas Senate approved a voucher plan that would use taxpayer funds to provide scholarships to private schools—including religious ones.
04/21/2015 - By Ken Camp
Is the Islamic State—ISIS or ISIL—different from other Islamist terror groups? If so, is the difference one of substance or simply degree? Or is there any real difference at all?
03/06/2015 - By Ken Camp
In a nation where mass incarceration policies have devastated poor and minority communities, people of faith and hope can bring about change, an advocate for criminal justice reform told a Baylor University crowd.
“Thank you for the story on Miguel Angel Paredes. Through it, we are able to see the human being who is being killed by the state.”
10/27/2014 - By Ken Camp
American women in poverty deserve a place at the table to influence public policy that affects their lives and becomes “inscribed in the brains” of their children, a child nutrition advocate told the Together at the Table Hunger Summit at Baylor University.
10/29/2013 - By Ken Camp
First Baptist Church in Commerce will sponsor a “Kingdom Ride” for motorcyclists June 29. The event is open to all motorcycles. Registration begins at 9 a.m. The ride starts and…
06/25/2013 - By Ken Camp
Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting in San Antonio this summer will consider a recommendation to grant the BGCT Executive Board authority to sell the Baptist Building in Dallas.
05/21/2013 - By Ken Camp
Congregations that pin all their hopes for institutional salvation on the latest technology are trusting in the wrong savior, a communications expert from Calvin College told a gathering at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary.
05/02/2013 - By Ken Camp
Dennis Wiles, pastor of First Baptist Church in Arlington, plans to nominate René Maciel, president of Baptist University of the Américas, for second vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
05/01/2013 - By Ken Camp
A memorial service for 12 firefighters killed in West on April 17 was laced with prayer, scripture and the theme that tragedy brings people and communities together.
04/26/2013 - By Ken Camp
About a week after one of the nation’s most violent industrial explosions rocked their bucolic community, members of First Baptist Church in West feel blessed.