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  Around the State: Baylor opens on-site lab for weekly COVID tests

  Baylor University enacted weekly COVID-19 testing requirements for students and opened its own on-site testing lab and research facility in partnership with My Labs Direct. Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers are helping distribute pre-packaged box meals and coffee to the staff and medical professionals who are administering vaccines at Fair Park, near downtown Dallas.

  01/27/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Activists remember Holocaust by advocating for Uyghurs

  Christian and Jewish human rights leaders are remembering the Holocaust by urging international advocacy on behalf of more than 3 million innocent Uyghur Muslims held in Chinese concentration camps aimed at cultural genocide.

  01/27/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Vocaré initiative helps UMHB students understand ‘calling’

  For many young college students, finding their calling and knowing their purpose in life may be challenging. That’s why leaders at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor developed the Vocaré initiative.  

  01/27/2021 - By Christi Mays / University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

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  Lifeway building in downtown Nashville under contract

  Lifeway Christian Resources has entered into a contract for the sale of its building in downtown Nashville. Contract terms, including the sale price, have not been disclosed.

  01/27/2021 - By Carol Pipes / LifeWay Christian Resources

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  Many pastors report hearing conspiracy theories at church

  A new study from LifeWay Research finds 49 percent of U.S. Protestant pastors say they frequently hear members of their congregation repeating conspiracy theories they have heard about why something is happening in our country.

  01/26/2021 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

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  Eastridge Mission Center meets multicultural needs in Amarillo

  Eastridge Baptist Church in Amarillo and its mission center serve an international group of immigrants and refugees who work in the city’s meat processing plants.

  01/26/2021 - By Carolyn Tomlin

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  Pastors express ‘decision fatigue’ as pandemic lingers

  Pastors note “decision fatigue” and “ministerial frustration” as they continue to cope with the stress of ministry in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  01/26/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Intergenerational ministry partners cast missions vision

  Theresa Krieg, president of Pennsylvania/South Jersey WMU, has had a love of missions since her preschool years in Sunbeams—now Mission Friends. Aubrey King is a young mother who was first introduced to Southern Baptist global missions as a college student. 

  01/25/2021 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

• Obituary: Harry Hunt

  Harry B. Hunt Jr., longtime professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died Jan. 19 in Longview. He was 76.

  01/25/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Students and alumni take seminary presidents to task

  Seminary presidents who pronounced critical race theory incompatible with the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message left Christians who are working toward racial harmony vulnerable to charges of unfaithfulness, a group of students and seminary alumni have asserted.

  01/25/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Greear’s church launches inquiry into past acts of staff minister

  A megachurch led by the president of the Southern Baptist Convention will review allegations that a staff pastor mishandled a sexual abuse case at his previous church.

  01/25/2021 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Biden repeals Muslim and African travel ban

  As one of his first official acts, President Joe Biden issued an executive order repealing his predecessor’s travel ban on some Muslim-majority countries and certain African nations—an action applauded by religious liberty advocates.

  01/21/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor