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  Bounce helps students find mission field at home

  Bounce Back Home Day of Service offered students the opportunity to serve without the risk of travel. It also taught them missional living can happen in their own neighborhoods, not just in faraway place.

  07/02/2020 - By Bonnie Shaw / Texas Baptist Communications

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  UMHB alumna: Alive by God’s grace after cheating death twice

  A minor technicality in the way her father spelled his name—as opposed to the way the U.S. Army thought he should spell it—was the catalyst that prompted Adrienne Evans-Quickley to join the military.

  07/02/2020 - By Christi Mays / University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

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  White evangelicals address race, but for how long?

  Many prominent white evangelicals have made statements about Black lives in the weeks since the death of George Floyd. But is this new focus among white conservatives—and white Christians in general—momentary or lasting?

  07/02/2020 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Texas Baptist leaders call for legislative review of policing

  About 250 Texas Baptist pastors and Christian leaders have endorsed a call for Texas lawmakers to make sure police training and practices prohibit the use of excessive force.

  07/02/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Around the State: WBU hosts drive-through COVID-19 testing

  Wayland Baptist University served as host site for COVID-19 drive-through testing. Howard Payne University held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the beginning of construction on the Newbury Family Welcome Center.

  07/01/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Court allows tuition tax credit for religious school scholarships

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a state program that allows public funds to go toward private education cannot exclude religious schools.

  07/01/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Music ministers compare notes during a pandemic

  An informal survey of Texas music ministers revealed two-thirds of the churches they serve currently offer both online and in-person worship services, and average in-person worship attendance is less than 40 percent of the pre-pandemic level.

  06/30/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Baylor acknowledges historic ties to slavery

  Baylor University regents acknowledged the school’s historic ties to slavery, and the board established an advisory commission that could lead to removing or renaming some campus landmarks.

  06/29/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Student who posted video ‘no longer enrolled’ at HSU

  Hardin-Simmons University initiated a disciplinary process involving a student who posted a “deeply disappointing and unacceptable social media post” that mocked attitudes toward interracial violence, HSU President Eric Bruntmyer said.

  06/29/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Life experiences led to passion for corrections ministry

  Karen Vinyard, a longtime Woman’s Missionary Union leader in Illinois, became involved in corrections ministry while her husband was serving 13 years in prison after being convicted on drug-related charges.

  06/29/2020 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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  White Christians face ‘moment of reckoning’ about racism

  In the current “moment of reckoning” on racial justice, white Christians need to tell the truth about how they historically benefited from systemic racism if they want to “rescue the faith,” an author and researcher with deep Southern Baptist roots told an online audience.

  06/29/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Mississippi Baptist leaders want Confederate flag removed

  Offering a “voice of healing in the name of Jesus Christ,” Mississippi Baptists asked the state legislature to replace the state flag with a design that does not include the Confederate flag.

  06/26/2020 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press