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  TBM provides disaster relief in South Texas

  Multiple Texas Baptist Men disaster relief teams responded to the needs of flooded residents in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Two TBM flood-recovery crews and a team from Arkansas went…

  06/28/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Analysis: Why some churches are leaving CBF

  Churches who disagree on substantive issues find common ground in criticizing the results of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Illumination Project, in particular the changes to the CBF hiring policy regarding LGBT individuals.

  06/27/2018 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Around the State: Global Hunger Relief Run; UMHB names dean of College of Visual and Performing Arts

  Global Hunger Relief Run during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting; UMHB names dean of College of Visual and Performing Arts; and more news from Baylor and Houston Baptist University.

  06/27/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Gene Horton

  Fain Eugene “Gene” Horton, longtime Baptist pastor in South Texas, died June 22 in Harlingen, five days after preaching his last sermon. He was 83.

  06/27/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Bruce Bowles

  Bruce W. Bowles, who led the Baptist Church Loan Corporation more than a quarter of a century, died June 24 in Dallas. He was 87.

  06/27/2018 - By Staff

• On the Move: Hassell

  Pastoral change noted for a church in San Angelo.

  06/27/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Project: Start’s Regheta receives Immigrant Advocate Award

  Leonid Regheta, director of Project: Start Refugee Resource Center, a Baptist General Convention of Texas-supported ministry, received the Immigrant Advocate Award at the 7th Annual Immigrant Journey Awards.

  06/26/2018 - By Kirsten McKimmey / Texas Baptist Communications

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  Greear confronts SBC challenges in NPR interview

  Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear addressed topics ranging from the #MeToo crisis to politics and evangelicals in a recent interview with NPR, one of his first since taking the role.

  06/26/2018 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press

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  Supreme Court upholds Trump’s travel ban

  The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld President Trump’s temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from a group of primarily Muslim-majority countries in a 5-4 decision, arguing it is within the executive branch’s power to “suspend entry of aliens into the United States.”

  06/26/2018 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Government restrictions on religion increase globally

  A study by the Pew Research Center confirmed what the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and other human rights advocates already reported—increased government restrictions on religion around the world.

  06/26/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  ‘Not on our watch,’ Baptists say of immigrant family separation

  Cooperative Baptists gathered near the U.S.-Mexico border and declared “not on our watch” to any immigration policy that separates children from their parents who cross the border without proper documentation.

  06/25/2018 - By Marv Knox / Fellowship Southwest

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  Evangelicals visit West Bank for perspective on Palestinian life

  During a Christ at the Checkpoint event, conservative evangelicals sipped coffee and orange soda with a self-described Palestinian “freedom fighter” in a remote West Bank village.

  06/22/2018 - By Dan Rabb / Religion News Service