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Hardage to retire as BGCT executive director

David Hardage, executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, has announced plans to retire following more than 10 years of service.

06/24/2022 - By Texas Baptists Communications

Supreme Court overturns federal right to abortion

As both pro-life groups and abortion rights advocates responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling, their disparate reactions included one common refrain: “This is not the end.”

06/24/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Retired medical missionary still making an impact

About 2.5 million nutritious meals have been provided to hungry people, thanks to a pair of nonprofit organizations that grew out of the vision of veteran medical missionary Lee Baggett and his colleagues.

06/24/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Worshippers at Baptist church in Nigeria abducted

Three dozen worshippers at a Baptist church in Nigeria’s southern Kaduna state were abducted by gunmen on June 19 after the attackers first killed three people at a Catholic church.

06/23/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Around the State: USDA awards $5 million to Baylor Collaborative

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded nearly $5 million to the Baylor University Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty to continue its Meals-to-You demonstration project this summer.

06/22/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Obituary: Jack Ridlehoover

Jack Ridlehoover, longtime Texas Baptist pastor and mentor to ministers, died June 19. He was 91.

06/22/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Gallup Poll: Americans’ belief in God at low level

In the latest Gallup Poll, belief in God dipped to 81 percent, down 6 percentage points from 2017, and the lowest since Gallup first asked the question in 1944.

06/22/2022 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

Court rules tuition program cannot exclude religious schools

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled July 21 a state tuition assistance program in Maine cannot exclude religious schools.

06/21/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Baptist women in ministry show marginal gains

A Baptist Women in Ministry survey revealed one in four have been sexually harassed or sexually assaulted while serving in their ministry setting.

06/21/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Hispanic pastors discuss leading a church out of COVID

Hispanic pastors from California, Florida and Texas discussed strategies to lead the church in a post-COVID world during a panel discussion in the exhibit hall at the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

06/20/2022 - By Keila Diaz / Baptist Press

Baptist pastor released after being kidnapped by cartel

Baptist pastor Lorenzo Ortiz, who operates five shelters for migrants in northern Mexico, was released unharmed after being held hostage by a Mexican cartel for about 29 hours.

06/20/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

National grassroots racial unity initiative planned

Ed Litton, the immediate past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, former SBC president Fred Luter and noted author and Texas pastor Tony Evans announced an initiative to build racial unity nationwide, conducted by local churches.

06/17/2022 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press