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  Georgetown man keeps alive late wife’s giving spirit

  Christmas is the gift-giving season, and some gifts have a rich story behind them. Such is the case with a gift given by a Georgetown man for Texas Baptist Men’s Christmas mission effort.

  12/19/2023 - By Ferrell Foster / Texas Baptist Men

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  How widespread is Christian nationalism? It’s complicated

  A new study estimates about 30 percent of Americans are open to the ideas associated with Christian nationalism. However, the study’s authors say those who adhere to or sympathize with the ideology are a more complex group than other studies have found.

  12/19/2023 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

• Obituary: Anson Rainey Nash

  Anson Rainey Nash Jr., school administrator and longtime executive director of Corpus Christi Area Baptist Association, died Dec. 11. He was 83.

  12/18/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Nona Ruth Mosley

  Nona Ruth Mosley, minister’s wife and longtime children’s choir leader, died Dec. 12. She was 85.

  12/18/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Round Rock church presents Christmas on the Corner

  Over the course of two weekends earlier this month, about 6,000 people attended outdoor live Nativity presentations in downtown Round Rock—including some who said they learned about the events surrounding Jesus’ birth for the first time.

  12/18/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Ukrainian Christians unite in Dec. 25 observance

  Baptist, Ukrainian Orthodox and Greek-Catholic churches will celebrate Christmas in unison Dec. 25 for the first time, the latter two abandoning their traditional Jan. 7 observance.

  12/18/2023 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Americans searched for hope on Bible app in 2023

  When people log on to the YouVersion Bible app, they don’t generally want to know what the Bible thinks about politics or hot-button social issues. They usually are looking for some reassurance that things are going to be all right.

  12/18/2023 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Chaplains debate escalates school board culture wars

  The idea that public schools could turn into spaces of overt religious recruitment has worried church and state separationist across the Lone Star State ever since Gov. Greg Abbott signed a school chaplain bill into law.

  12/15/2023 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Black church coalition names health equity as a priority

  The Conference of National Black Churches has called on African American congregations to embrace a list of priorities—from “government-sponsored reparations” to improved access to health care—as they move out of a pandemic era and into an election year.

  12/15/2023 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Lawsuit asserts gas execution poses religious liberty threat

  The last time Kenneth Smith was slated for execution, he was strapped to a gurney for an hour while workers repeatedly attempted to insert intravenous lines in his chest, hand, arm and neck to execute him by lethal injection.

  12/15/2023 - By Kathryn Post / Religion News Service

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  Faith-based groups urge support for nutrition programs

  The Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty and Fellowship Southwest are among more than 250 faith-based organizations in Texas that urged Congress to pass a robust Farm Bill that includes strong support for nutrition programs.

  12/14/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  TBM volunteers return home from Israel

  After almost two months of providing meals in the midst of the Israel-Hamas war, Texas Baptist Men feeding teams are returning home as the ministry’s Israeli partners can now meet the needs of people caught in the conflict.

  12/14/2023 - By Ferrell Foster / Texas Baptist Men