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  Religious businesses ruled exempt from LGBTQ bias claims

  For-profit businesses with sincerely held religious beliefs are exempt from LGBTQ discrimination liability under a decision this week by a federal judge in Texas.

  11/04/2021 - By Kathryn Post / Religion News Service

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  Almost all churches meeting in person but attendance lags

  The percentage of U.S. Protestant churches meeting in person is comparable to the time before COVID-19, but overall attendance has not yet reached pre-pandemic levels.

  11/04/2021 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

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  Young ministers want greater involvement in BGCT

  Some young ministers wants to see Millennials and Generation Z represent at least 25 percent of full-time Baptist General Convention of Texas staff and 25 percent of the convention’s Executive Board and committee members by 2025.

  11/04/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Around the State: BWA president speaks at DBU

  At his first stop in the United States after being elected president of the Baptist World Alliance, Argentinian Baptist leader Tomás Mackey delivered the T.B. Maston Lecture in Christian Ethics at Dallas Baptist University

  11/03/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Mentoring key to growth at New Mexico church

  A big part of the rebirth of First Baptist Church in Las Vegas, N.M., can be attributed to one man’s willingness to share and another’s willingness to listen.

  11/03/2021 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  Voters approve ban on state limiting religious gatherings

  Voters approved eight amendments to the Texas Constitution on Nov. 2, including one barring the state from limiting religious services.

  11/03/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  High court weighs if Texas abortion ban may stay in effect

  The U.S. Supreme Court questioned multiple lawyers for nearly three hours Nov. 1 regarding whether Texas’ ban on heartbeat abortions may continue to be enforced.

  11/02/2021 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

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  SBC Executive Committee meets to discuss legal issues

  The Southern Baptist Executive Committee has enlisted a national law firm to offer counsel related to an investigation into its handling of sexual abuse claims.

  11/01/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Johnston named executive director of BWA Women

  After a global search, Baptist World Alliance Women appointed Merritt Johnston—a graduate of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor—as executive director.

  11/01/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Most Americans support church-state separation

  Americans do not want to see the United States declared a Christian country, and they do not want to forsake the separation of church and state, a new Pew Research study finds.

  11/01/2021 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

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  Samford pulls Meacham over Planned Parenthood ties

  Noted historian and presidential biographer Jon Meacham has been uninvited from Samford University’s inaugural celebrations for their 19th president, Beck Taylor, over concerns about his ties to Planned Parenthood.

  11/01/2021 - By Jessica Mundie / Religion News Service

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  Tony Evans discusses Kingdom Race Theology

  God uses circumstances in society to draw people near to him, Dallas Pastor Tony Evans said, comparing the approach to his own courtship with his late wife Lois.

  11/01/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press