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San Marcos Baptist Academy students donated $300 to Central Texas Medical Center.
05/24/2013 - By John Rutledge
The U.S. State Department missed a key opportunity to put teeth into its annual assessment of global religious freedom.
With the rise of the “nones”—the 20 percent of Americans without a religious affiliation—more couples are looking for wedding celebrants who don’t mind skipping God’s blessing of the ceremony altogether.
The Rana Plaza factory disaster in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 workers powerfully illustrated a grim reality: garment workers in Third World countries take enormous risks to earn a living producing clothing for Western retailers.
A growing number of congregations are planting community gardens, raising fruits and vegetables for soup kitchens and food pantries in what often are called food justice programs. In some synagogues, they’re known as mitzvah gardens.
Gene Davis, 85, May 13 in Amarillo. He was a deacon and Sunday school teacher at Trinity Baptist Church in Amarillo. Gene DavisIn 1994, he went to Tanzania to build…
The Supreme Court agreed May 20 to hear a case centering on whether sectarian prayers at the beginning of official government meetings violate the First Amendment—an issue that has roiled local governing and school boards for years.
For Baptist disaster-relief coordinators, maintaining professionalism and sanity can be a challenge while juggling simultaneous catastrophes that produce multiple requests for help.
If the deadly Oklahoma tornado had a silver lining, it may be the ecumenical spirit that blew in with the response and recovery efforts of local churches, ministers say.
Many churches report a record amount of gifts, but no statewide total is available yet on the attempt to raise $1 million on Mother’s Day—$300,000 more than the hunger offering 2013 budget.
Ministers of spiritual formation are turning to the Internet to counter the interference hectic schedules, frequent traveling, social media and other demands of modern life can have on healthy discipleship.
05/23/2013 - By John Rutledge
Christian musicians from around the country united for a project to help provide hope and healing for residents and responders in West, devastated by a fertilizer plant explosion April 17.
