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  Dallas faith leaders call for justice for Botham Jean

  “As leaders of Jesus’ church, we are committed to speaking the truth in love, doing justice, loving kindness and walking humbly before our Lord. We speak as clergy of one blood, one faith, with one Father seeking the welfare of our city as servants of Christ in the city of Dallas.”

  09/20/2018 - By Dallas Faith Leaders / The Dallas Morning News

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  First wave of TBM disaster relief volunteers headed to N.C.

  Texas Baptist Men crews left Dallas Sept. 20 on their way to North Carolina as the first wave of long-term volunteer disaster relief and recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Florence.

  09/20/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Immigrants tell their stories at Fort Worth prayer meeting

  Immigration law can be to be a sensitive subject to talk about in any setting, so Iglesia Victoria en Cristo in Fort Worth decided to talk about it with God.

  09/19/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Church promotes the common good by modeling community

  The call to pursue the common good in an increasingly polarized political environment involves understanding meaningful communication and community—behavior the church uniquely is qualified to model, theologian and ethicist Oliver O’Donovan told a Baylor University audience.

  09/19/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Around the State: Strobel speaks at DBU; Rosato named provost at HBU

  Christian apologist Lee Strobel, author of “The Case for Christ,” spoke recently at Dallas Baptist University. Houston Baptist University named Michael Rosato as provost and vice president for academic affairs.

  09/19/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Persecuted Christians not ‘passive victims,’ researcher says

  Christians are the victims of 80 percent of all acts of religious discrimination globally, but 80 percent of the Christians in the world have no direct contact with that persecution, according to research a University of Notre Dame professor presented at Baylor University.

  09/19/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Meador named IMB interim president after Platt steps down

  After David Platt resigned as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, effective Sept. 27, the IMB trustees’ executive committee named Clyde Meador as interim president, subject to full board approval.

  09/19/2018 - By Julie McGowan / International Mission Board

• Obituary: R.L. Herring

  R.L. Herring of San Antonio, retired Texas Baptist pastor, military chaplain and administrator for Buckner Baptist Retirement Village, died Aug. 25. He was 97.

  09/19/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Survey shows more pastors preach about abuse in #MeToo age

  Half of Protestant pastors say they preach to their churches about domestic and sexual violence, an increase from four years ago, when only a third said they raised the issue, a new survey shows.

  09/18/2018 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Weighing the spiritual cost when saints turn out to be scoundrels

  What do Christians do when they learn the person they trusted to teach them about God actually is a predator? What if the faith leader they admired turns out to be more scoundrel than saint?

  09/16/2018 - By Cathleen Falsani / Religion News Service

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  TBM volunteers prepare to respond to Hurricane Florence

  As Hurricane Florence approached the Carolinas, Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers prepared for likely deployment to the East Coast, while also keeping a watchful eye on a storm forming in the Gulf of Mexico.

  09/12/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Prayer meetings and town hall events part of seminary presidential search

  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s presidential search committee formed an advisory committee of faculty, staff and students to support them in their work.

  09/12/2018 - By Alex Sibley / Southwestern Seminary