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As a commission created to examine Baylor University’s history examined some of its early leaders’ views on race, participants wrestled with “painful information” about the school’s founders.
03/17/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor
Staff changes affecting churches in the San Angelo area and Rockwall, as well as the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
03/17/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Buckner Children and Family Services received a $20,000 grant from the Dallas Mayor’s Disaster Relief Fund to help Dallas families recover from the February winter storm and power outages.
As immigration officials along the United States/Mexico border deal with the largest surge of migrants in two decades, Baptists in Texas are seeking to respond to their varied needs.
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders of Brother Bill’s Helping Hand ministry in West Dallas not only mourn the untold number of neighbors they serve whose lives were claimed by the virus, but also 10 deaths even closer to home.
Jacob Zailian knows the exact spot where his own life changed dramatically—in a cell on the fourth floor of D pod in Fresno County Jail, where he committed his life to Christ.
03/16/2021 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press
A Tennessee pastor who confessed two decades ago to statutory rape has resigned after his church was recently removed from the Southern Baptist Convention for employing him.
03/16/2021 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service
Luis Palau, a Christian evangelist described by some as “the Latino Billy Graham,” died March 11 at his Portland, Ore., home. He was 86.
03/15/2021 - By Mark I. Pinsky / Religion News Service
Even as the number of churchgoers attending in-person worship services continues to rise, church leaders are quick to say that the need for an online presence isn’t going anywhere.
03/11/2021 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press
Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary will begin to offer courses leading to the Master of Divinity degree at both its Houston and San Antonio locations, beginning in the fall 2021 semester.
03/11/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Staff change noted affecting churches in El Campo and Sugar Land.
03/10/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard
Baylor University announced a $1.5 million gift from the Angel Family Foundation to support student scholarships within the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work’s Global Mission Leadership program and a $1.5 million gift from the Prichard Family Foundation to establish the Lev H. Prichard III Chair in the Study of Black Worship.