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  Around the State: DBU group travels to Germany

  Eight Dallas Baptist University students and three staff members traveled to Germany recently to connect with a local church and its ministry to refugees.

  06/15/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Lucien E. Coleman Jr.

  Lucien E. Coleman Jr., veteran religious educator and scholar, died June 11 in Weatherford. He was 91.

  06/15/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  SBC overwhelmingly approves abuse reforms

  Messengers to the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting overwhelmingly approved recommendations to address sexual abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

  06/15/2022 - By Adelle M. Banks & Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Barber elected SBC president; sex abuse reform approved

  Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention elected Texas pastor Bart Barber as president, voted to create an Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force, and authorized development of a Ministry Check website of individuals credibly accused of sexual abuse.

  06/15/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Cox announced as last-minute nominee for SBC president

  Georgia pastor Frank Cox joins Tom Ascol, Bart Barber and Robin Hadaway as announced candidates for president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

  06/14/2022 - By Jonathan Howe / Baptist Press

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  Hispanic Celebration focuses on fellowship and worship

  About 500 Hispanic Southern Baptists gathered for a night of fellowship, worship and encouragement in the Anaheim Convention Center preceding the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

  06/14/2022 - By Keila Diaz / Baptist Press

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  WMU offers women a ‘rolling missions adventure’

  Instead of gathering at a venue near a convention center, participants in this year’s Woman’s Missionary Union missions celebration loaded onto three buses for an experience called Embark: WMU’s Rolling Missions Adventure.

  06/14/2022 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press

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  Executive Committee rescinds previous budget motions

  With $4 million now pledged from Send Relief toward funding sexual abuse reforms over the next year, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee voted June 13 to rescind their recently approved recommendations for that same objective.

  06/14/2022 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  Evans says church has become more partisan than Christian

  Noted Dallas pastor and author Tony Evans likened the church of today to referees on a football field who have chosen sides.

  06/14/2022 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  CBN suffers setbacks prior to SBC annual meeting

  On the eve of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, the Conservative Baptist Network—a group that claims one of the nation’s most conservative religious groups is too liberal—suffered major setbacks.

  06/14/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Southern Baptists share gospel through Crossover Anaheim

  Following a week of Southern Baptist seminary students engaging neighborhoods around Anaheim, 34 churches engaged their communities through various  Crossover Anaheim outreach events June 11.

  06/13/2022 - By Brandon Elrod / Baptist Press

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  Baylor study indicates children safer in faith-based care

  Preliminary findings of Baylor University researchers indicate children in the care of faith-based providers are significantly safer than children cared for by secular child welfare agencies.

  06/13/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor