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  Congreso urged to consider collision of sin and God’s power

  A keynote speaker at Congreso 2019 assured more than 3,000 Hispanic students they gathered on the Baylor University campus by divine invitation, not by accident.

  04/23/2019 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Discipleship OK but most pastors see room for growth

  Most Protestant pastors feel confident about the discipleship taking place in their churches. However, there’s still plenty of room for growth, according to a new study from Nashville-based LifeWay Research.

  04/22/2019 - By Carol Pipes / LifeWay Christian Resources

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  Number of Americans who belong to a church plummets

  A new Gallup report found that only half of Americans say they belong to a church or other religious body, down from 69 percent two decades earlier.

  04/22/2019 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Waco women offer Light in the Gap to female ex-offenders

  Every weekday, women from Waco-area churches greet the ex-offenders at the local bus station, offering them a warm welcome, homemade cookies, handcrafted tote bags filled with helpful items and a prayer of blessing.

  04/22/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Pastor de Longview/ex estrella de fútbol fallece después de un accidente doméstico

  Amigos y admiradores se reunieron en First Baptist Church de Longview el 8 de abril para recordar a Fabio Giménez como uno que pasó de ser reconocido como jugador profesional de fútbol a alguien con un deseo de servir a Dios. Un accidente con una podadora de pasto el 5 de abril tomó la vida del pastor de Puertas Abiertas, originario de Argentina y quien tenía 50 años de edad.

  04/18/2019 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  For Baylor students, 72 hours of prayer just not enough

  A scheduled 72-hour prayer event at Baylor University grew into a spontaneous 10-day revival, as students continued to meet for prayer.

  04/17/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Campus ministry on border trains young Christians to lead

  Life on the border is difficult. But the Baptist Student Ministry of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is working to help young adults who live there leverage their own strength and resilience to step out as leaders of the Valley and the nation. (Curated)

  04/16/2019 - By Faith & Leadership

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  Around the State: UMHB holds Easter pageant; commemorative windows removed at SWBTS

  Students at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor presented the school’s 80th annual Easter pageant in three performances April 17. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary removed from its J.W. MacGorman Chapel a controversial set of 40 stained glass windows commemorating the self-identified “conservative resurgence” in the Southern Baptist Convention.

  04/16/2019 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• On the Move: Bullard and Mills

  Pastoral change announced for Longview church. Staff addition noted for Amarillo church.

  04/16/2019 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  TBM volunteers offer relief after tornadoes in Franklin and Alto

  Texas Baptist Men deployed disaster relief volunteers on Palm Sunday after an EF-3 tornado destroyed 55 homes in Franklin and two tornadoes ripped through Alto.

  04/16/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Evangelicals raise spiritual questions about artificial intelligence

  Artificial intelligence may allow technology to help people make wise decisions and work more efficiently. But it is not morally neutral, argues a group of Southern Baptist and other evangelical leaders in a new declaration about technology and ethics.

  04/16/2019 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Bumpus becomes second-generation state WMU president

  Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas elected Earl Ann Bumpus of Graham as president five decades after her mother, Cleota Lenert, was elected president of Florida WMU. Lenert died nine and a half weeks before her daughter’s election.

  04/12/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor