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  Land breaks pledge, endorses Romney

  Breaking a longstanding personal pledge, Southern Baptist agency leader Richard Land endorsed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, saying the upcoming election is the most important since Abraham Lincoln's win in 1860.

  11/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Campaigns’ faith outreach centers on economic issues

  With voters focused intently on pocketbook issues, both Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are framing their faith-outreach efforts around the economy as the presidential campaign enters its final days.

  10/26/2012 - By Administrator

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  Pastors challenge IRS over political endorsements

  As part of "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," religious leaders across the country endorsed political candidates—an act that flies in the face of Internal Revenue Service rules about what tax-exempt organizations, such as churches, can and cannot do.

  10/12/2012 - By Administrator

• ETBU, HBU legally challenge regulations in health care mandate

  East Texas Baptist University and Houston Baptist University have filed a lawsuit challenging the preventative services mandate in the Affordable Care Act.

  10/09/2012 - By Administrator

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  Religious groups team up to fight sex trafficking

  UNICEF reports girls enter the commercial sex trade in the United States at age 13. And while many Americans might think of sex trafficking as an international problem, it often starts in the United States.

  10/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Political speech shows many still don’t understand school prayer

  Many Americans still  misunderstand a landmark Supreme Court ruling that banned mandatory prayer recitations in public schools.

  09/14/2012 - By Administrator

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  Saddleback civil forum called off due to candidates’ lack of civility

  Saddleback Church pastor and Purpose-Driven Life author Rick Warren announced that a civil forum planned with President Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been canceled. Warren said he pulled the plug because he believes discourse between the two campaigns has become so uncivil that a polite exchange for two hours would seem hypocritical.

  08/23/2012 - By Administrator

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  Obama and Romney offer glimpse into their spiritual lives

  President Obama says it's not his job to defend his Christian faith against doubters who suspect he's Muslim. His GOP challenger, Mitt Romney, says religion is "integral" to his life, even as often he avoids mentioning his Mormon faith by name.

  08/22/2012 - By Administrator

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  Ad marks foray into religious campaign rhetoric, Baylor analyst notes

  A new political ad by presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in which he accuses President Obama of “waging war on religion,” is an opening salvo in religious rhetoric that likely will escalate as the November election approaches, said a Baylor University political expert and author.

  08/14/2012 - By Administrator

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  Colorado tragedy affects Texas Baptist family

  The impact of last week’s shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater was felt as far away as Texas, where a Baptist family mourned the loss of a brother and son.

  07/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist injured in theater shooting chooses forgiveness

  
  

  From his hospital bed, one of the 58 people injured in a July 20 shooting rampage in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater that claimed 12 lives has become a spokesman for Christian forgiveness.

  07/24/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist leaders join other evangelicals in call for immigration reform

  Two Texas Baptist leaders and other prominent Baptists are among about 140 evangelical Christians who endorsed a statement of principles for immigration reform, which includes the call for a path to citizenship or legal status for qualified undocumented immigrants.

  06/13/2012 - By Administrator