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  Court lets stand Texas ruling potentially blocking gay spousal benefits

  The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a Texas case involving a city that extended benefits to same-sex spouses of employees.

  12/06/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Supreme Court hears arguments on wedding cake case

  The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Dec. 5 in the case of a Christian baker in Colorado who refused to design a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

  12/06/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Support of Israel wanes among younger evangelicals

  Older American evangelicals love Israel, but many younger evangelicals simply don’t care, a new survey from Nashville-based LifeWay Research reveals.

  12/05/2017 - By Bob Smietana / LifeWay Research

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  La Puerta Waco seeks to connect Hispanics to resources

  First Baptist Church in Waco launched La Puerta Waco, a community ministry to connect Hispanics with legal and social services, about two months ago.

  12/05/2017 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Europe’s Muslim population growing but won’t be a majority soon

  Even if migration to Europe ceased—no immigrants, no refugees—the percentage of Muslims in those countries would still rise over the next three decades, according to new projections from the Pew Research Center.

  12/04/2017 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service

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  Survey seeks qualities of effective directors of missions

  Opinions of leaders in all areas of Southern Baptist life are solicited in an online survey studying the qualities of effective leadership by associational directors of missions.

  12/04/2017 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Bill that would allow churches to receive FEMA aid advances in Congress

  Churches, synagogues, mosques and other faith-based community centers damaged in a natural disaster could be eligible for federal disaster relief funds under a measure approved by a congressional committee.

  12/04/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  C.S. Lewis believed in purgatory, for heaven’s sake

  A mainline Protestant professor of philosophy from a Baptist university explained why it made sense for an Anglican author and evangelical icon to believe in a variation on the Catholic doctrine of purgatory.

  12/04/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  San Antonio Christians rally to support Dreamers

  Patty Villarreal could not ignore the concerns her students at Baptist University of the Américas expressed about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Her Christian commitment and background in social work prompted compassion and spurred her to action.

  11/29/2017 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Around the State: DBU honors Orville Rogers; ETBU athletes support Operation Christmas Child

  Dallas Baptist University presented the 2017 Russell H. Perry Free Enterprise Award to Orville Rogers, longtime volunteer missions pilot and 100-year-old fitness enthusiast. The East Texas Baptist University Athletic Department sponsored a wrapping party to prepare toy-filled shoeboxes donated to the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child initiative.

  11/29/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  FBI and religion scholars reflect on relationship long after Branch Davidian crisis

  After federal authorities accidentally triggered a 1993 fire that killed 75 members of an obscure Christian sect near Waco, one of the lessons law enforcement learned was to call religion experts in a crisis where faith is a factor.

  11/29/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  Supreme Court denies hearing to Birdville school board prayer challenge

  The U.S. Supreme Court announced Nov. 27 it would not hear a case challenging a Tarrant County school district’s practice that allows students to lead public prayers at school board meetings.

  11/29/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor