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  Abuse database not a present focus for SBC leaders

  A proposed online database that would list the names of abusive Southern Baptist pastors is now on hold, with no names likely to be added to the website by the denomination’s annual meeting this summer.

  02/19/2025 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Convención receives $1.5 million Lilly Endowment grant

  Convención Bautista Hispana de Texas—in collaboration with the National Hispanic Baptist Network—received a $1.5 million Lilly Endowment grant.

  02/19/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Iniciativa nacional para fortalecer a los líderes pastorales y las congregaciones hispanas

  Convención Bautista Hispana de Texas ha recibido una subvención de $1,500,000 de Lilly Endowment para apoyar “Adelante: Developing Capacity in Service of Hispanic Congregations” and Leaders, ” que es un proyecto que se desarrolla en colaboración con la Red Nacional Bautista Hispana.

  02/19/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Around the State: CLC hosts Advocacy Day

  As part of celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Christian Life Commission will host Advocacy Day on March 3-4, to equip Texas Baptists for advocacy and to facilitate an opportunity to speak with state representatives.

  02/19/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Board approves NAMB agreement, insurance program

  Texas Baptists’ Executive Board adopted a new agreement with the SBC North American Mission Board regarding church-starting in Texas and approved the initial reserve investment, officers and board for the Texas Baptist Insurance Program.

  02/18/2025 - By Ken Camp & Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  Texas Baptists committed to finishing the task

  The global church is focused on “finishing the task” two millennia in the making, Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Director Julio Guarneri told the BGCT Executive Board.

  02/18/2025 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  SBC leaders undaunted as legal bills mount

  Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee struck a hopeful and defiant tone Feb. 17, acknowledging the fiscal woes facing the convention, yet insisting the nation’s largest Protestant denomination remains a force for good in the world.

  02/18/2025 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  How to spot and prevent toxic leaders in the church

  Toxic leadership in the church has been on full display in recent years, a Dallas Baptist University dean told participants in a Nexus Leadership Conference breakout session.

  02/17/2025 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  50 Christians killed in Nigeria since late January

  About 50 Christians were killed, dozens kidnapped and homes destroyed since late January in several attacks spanning southern to northern Nigeria, Christian persecution watchdog groups said.

  02/17/2025 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Texas Supreme Court answers questions in Patterson case

  The Supreme Court of Texas issued a ruling Feb. 14 on two questions raised in a case brought against former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson and the seminary by a plaintiff known as Jane Roe.

  02/17/2025 - By Baptist Press Staff

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  Former pro athlete takes mental health talk to churches

  Former professional football player Jay Barnett was raised in church, but he met God as an adult in therapy, he said.

  02/17/2025 - By Kathryn Post / Religion News Service

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  Lawmakers seek to bar ICE raids at sensitive locations

  Lawmakers and religious groups are speaking out in support of a bill that would largely protect immigrants from Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids within 1,000 feet of “sensitive locations” such as hospitals, schools and churches.

  02/17/2025 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service