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  Around the State: TBM still at work in Highland Lakes area

  Texas Baptist Men disaster relief crews continue to work in the Kingsland and Marble Falls areas after homes in the Highland Lakes region flooded. The Wayland Baptist University chapter of Enactus worked with the university’s faculty and staff to donate 42 Bibles to the Crisis Center of the Plains.

  10/31/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• On the Move: Broughton, Campbell, Goddard, Knowlton, Longorio, Lowry and Marshall

  Staff changes noted for churches in San Angelo, Temple, Sterling City, Houston and Waco, as well as FIRM Baptist Area.

  10/31/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  BUA student assists with Bible translation to his native language

  Nicolás López-Merino’s involvement in translating the Old Testament into the Amuzgo language shaped his trajectory and led him to study theology and music at Baptist University of the Américas.

  10/30/2018 - By Jaclyn Bonner / Baptist University of the Américas

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  Cooperation key to Unión Femenil Misionera of Texas

  Christians who are called to serve can do more if they are able to encourage others to come alongside them and cooperate. That idea has guided Unión Femenil Misionera of Texas for more than 100 years, UFM Executive Director-Treasurer Bea Mesquias said.

  10/30/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Baptist leaders condemn synagogue shooting

  Leaders of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, the Southern Baptist Convention and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship condemned anti-Semitism and expressed grief over the loss of life in a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

  10/30/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Immigrant detainees access to clergy may be infrequent

  For many of the undocumented immigrants locked up on any given day in ICE detention centers nationally, access to religious material, and opportunities to engage in religious worship can be infrequent, inconsistent and in some cases absent altogether.

  10/30/2018 - By Tom Verde / Religion News Service

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  Legal battle continues over religious leader housing tax break

  A federal court heard oral arguments on whether a longstanding housing tax break for clergy called a “parsonage allowance exclusion” is constitutional, setting the stage for a clash over competing claims of religious privilege and religious discrimination.

  10/30/2018 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Hoogstra: Called to build bridges in divisive times

  A mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, pipe bombs mailed to political leaders, and a caravan of Central Americans approaching the U.S. border underscore the importance of Christians’ calling to build bridges, Shirley Hoogstra told a Dallas Baptist University audience.

  10/30/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Artist Makoto Fujimura links culture care and creation care

  A visual artist cited the work of a reclusive 19th century New England poet and a 20th century marine biologist to connect culture care to creation care.

  10/29/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Greear joins call for genocide label in Myanmar

  Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear joined a diverse coalition in urging the Trump administration to label as genocide the brutalities against religious and ethnic minorities in Myanmar.

  10/29/2018 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

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  South Texas School prepared for HSU action

  Hardin-Simmons University is closing its Logsdon Seminary extension in Corpus Christi, but the South Texas School of Christian Studies will continue to offer courses to prepare students for ministry.

  10/29/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Recognize kinship to the land, Old Testament scholar urges

  The Bible speaks both of the created world and of humankind as “the works of God’s hands,” and people should recognize their kinship to the land, Old Testament scholar Ellen Davis told a Baylor University symposium on stewardship of creation.

  10/27/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor