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  Racial healing requires dismantling oppressive systems

  Healing racist systems within the church requires everyone—oppressed and oppressors alike—to recognize they are wounded by racism, a speaker told a hybrid conference offered online and at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary.

  02/18/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Cliff Temple helps connect community to its history

  Volunteers from Cliff Temple Baptist Church worked with the Tenth Street Residential Association and others to clear away brush and bramble from overgrown graves in the long-neglected Black section of the segregated Oak Cliff Cemetery.

  02/16/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Around the State: Wayland students read to elementary classes

  Sixteen Wayland Baptist University students participated in the Plainview Independent School District’s Love of Reading program, reading to students at Highland Elementary School.

  02/16/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Pastors say they want racial diversity but see limited progress

  Most Protestant pastors say every church should strive to achieve racial diversity, but few are achieving it, a new Lifeway Research study shows.

  02/16/2022 - By Marissa Postell / Lifeway Research

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  Skaug and Adams elected to new seminary roles

  Benjamin M. Skaug and Colby T. Adams were elected to new roles in the senior leadership of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary during a special meeting of the seminary’s board of trustees Feb. 15.

  02/16/2022 - By James A. Smith

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  Chayasirisobhon nominee for SBC first vice president

  California Southern Baptist Convention President Victor Chayasirisobhon will be nominated for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the 2022 annual meeting in Anaheim in June.

  02/16/2022 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  No response from Cuba regarding detained pastor

  The Cuban government failed to respond to a request from five United Nations human rights advocates for information about the treatment and continued detention of a Protestant pastor who has been held seven months.

  02/15/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Houses of worship grapple with future of online services

  As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, more houses of worship are having to weigh the costs and benefits of online versus in-person worship.

  02/15/2022 - By Diana Kruzman / Religion News Service

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  Evangelicals hopeful as immigration reform proposed

  The Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics entity joined other evangelical groups in expressing hope a new congressional proposal is an indication of the start of a focused attempt to reform the immigration system.

  02/15/2022 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

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  Farmersville pastor to chair SBC resolutions committee

  Farmersville pastor Bart Barber will serve as chair for the 2022 resolutions committee at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Anaheim

  02/14/2022 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  Russia’s first FM Christian station faces another crisis

  While the people of Ukraine watch and wait for a potential Russian invasion, an evangelical Christian radio station called “New Life Radio” continues its ministry during the crisis.

  02/14/2022 - By Timothy Cockes / Baptist Press

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  Fort Stockton couple sees God’s hand in infertility and adoption

  Rachel and Warren Camp see God’s hand in the events that led to the creation of their family through adoption.

  02/14/2022 - By Teresa Young