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  Texas Baptist gifts to hunger offering make Mama proud

  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.

  05/24/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Spiritual formation growing online

  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

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  Christian musicians unite for West

  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.

  05/23/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Arlington couple—advocates for retired ministers

  Mission: Dignity Sunday is June 23. The ministry of GuideStone Financial Resources helps thousands of retired ministers and their widows who served in small, rural churches and now struggle to pay for basic expenses.

  05/23/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Abilene church ‘party’ celebrates raising $3.6 million for missions

  First Baptist Church in Abilene celebrated the completion of a three-year capital campaign that collected more than $3.6 million for missions.

  05/23/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  BGCT board seeks authority to move ahead with possible building sale

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting in San Antonio this summer will consider a recommendation to grant the BGCT Executive Board authority to sell the Baptist Building in Dallas.

  05/21/2013 - By Ken Camp

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  TBM command team to Oklahoma, others prepare

  (UPDATED) Texas Baptist Men plans to send a team to Shawnee, Okla., Wednesday to relieve Oklahoma Baptists who had been responding to a previous tornado there.

  05/21/2013 - By John Rutledge

• On the Move: Jerry Payne

  Jerry Payne to First Baptist Church in Blanket as pastor.

  05/17/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Around the State: HPU social work award

  Chassidy Carroll, a 2008 Howard Payne University graduate, received the HPU Social Work Advisory Board’s Spirit of Social Work Award.

  05/17/2013 - By John Rutledge

• Texas Tidbits: Wayland MDiv degree

  Wayland Baptist University is accepting applications for its Master of Divinity degree program that begins in the fall. Students may complete the 86-hour degree program entirely online.

  05/17/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Analysis: Will Gosnell verdict change abortion debate?

  Fervent prayers by abortion opponents for a game-changing impact from the conviction of rogue abortionist Kermit Gosnell may go unanswered for a variety of reasons.

  05/17/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Franklin Graham calls IRS probe ‘un-American’

  Evangelist Franklin Graham blasted the Internal Revenue Service probe of conservative nonprofit groups as “un-American,” saying the IRS audited both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the relief group Samaritan’s Purse.

  05/17/2013 - By John Rutledge