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  Recovery, rebuilding continue in Bastrop, one year after fire

  The flames have been extinguished. The smoke is gone. But one year after the most devastating wildfire in Texas history started, its haze still hangs over an area once known for its pine trees—seemingly out of place in South Central Texas.

  09/06/2012 - By Administrator

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  Updated: Baptist worker from Texas found dead in Jordan

  Jordanian authorities are investigating the death of Cheryll Harvey, a Texan whose body was discovered Sept. 4 in her apartment in Irbid, Jordan. Foul play has been confirmed in the death of the 55-year-old representative of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board.

  09/05/2012 - By Administrator

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  DBU students serve across the DFW area

  More than 600 incoming Dallas Baptist University students participated in the school's recent SWAT—Student Welcome and Transition—week.

  09/05/2012 - By Administrator

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  TBM disaster response deploys 16 units in Louisiana

  Sixteen Texas Baptist Men disaster relief mobile units and dozens of volunteers have been deployed to Louisiana to serve people whose lives have been disrupted by Hurricane Isaac.

  09/05/2012 - By Administrator

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  Black Mormons face a political choice like no other

  Unlike white Mormons, the vast majority of whom side with Republicans, African-Americans overwhelmingly vote Democratic. So black Mormons look at Obama, the Democrat, and Romney, the Republican, and find themselves caught between political perspectives.

  09/04/2012 - By Administrator

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  The Mormon Moment

  For Baptists and other evangelicals trying to decide how to vote, the 2012 presidential election campaign has renewed discussion of whether the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Christian.

  09/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Mormon women seeking middle ground to greater equality

  Some Mormon feminists see only one goal on the road to gender equality— ordination to the all-male priesthood.

  09/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Orthodox Jews finally mark end of 7-year Talmud study, 2,711 pages later

  For seven and one-half years, day-in and day-out, Jews around the world have studied a new double-sided page of the Talmud, the biblical commentary that, written over centuries, serves as a guide to spirituality and practical life. Some 90,000 people recently crowded into New Jersey's MetLife Stadium to read portions of the Talmud's 2,711th—and final—page, ending a seven and one-half-year cycle.

  08/31/2012 - By Administrator

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  Student summer missionaries answer call to go and serve

  Many university students who served this summer with Go Now Missions reported they discovered God's call was only a prayer or phone conversation away.

  08/31/2012 - By Administrator

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  Churches without policies for online activity risk embarrassment — or worse

  Statistics show religious Americans have adopted social media at roughly the same rates as unbelievers. But convincing churches to adopt policies governing online activity is an uphill slog.

  08/31/2012 - By Administrator

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  Mormons and Baptists compete for converts

  Every year, the Southern Baptist Convention and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints compete for converts, spending tens of millions of dollars to spread their faith. They rely heavily on thousands of faithful volunteers willing to spread out across the country to evangelize.

  08/31/2012 - By Administrator

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  Mormons’ relationship with America: It’s complicated

  In political terms, American exceptionalism has come to mean, according to an article in Foreign Policy magazine, that "the United States—and the United States alone—(is meant) to lead, save, liberate and ultimately transform the world." That perspective fits some elements of LDS theology, but not others.

  08/31/2012 - By Administrator