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  N.C. gay marriage ban prompts response

  Some religious leaders hailed North Carolina’s May 8 passage of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman as a win for family values, while others vowed to continue the fight for what they call “marriage equality.”

  05/09/2012 - By Administrator

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  Around the State

  East Texas Baptist University has named Joseph Brown associate dean of the School of Education, effective Aug. 1. Brown, who currently serves at Houston Baptist University, also will be chair of the kinesiology and exercise science department.

  05/09/2012 - By Administrator

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  Among devout business students, narcissism impairs ethical judgment

  Narcissism—inordinate self-centeredness—impairs ethical judgment among devout Christians, a study of marketing students by two professors in Baylor University's Hankhamer School of Business reveals.

  05/09/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist ministry says ‘no’ to Vanderbilt

  The Baptist Collegiate Ministries at Vanderbilt University will not comply with the school’s new nondiscrimination policy.

  05/08/2012 - By Administrator

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  Glorieta available for $1 to New Mexico Baptists

  The LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center is being offered for $1 to the Baptist Convention of New Mexico, according to both LifeWay and state convention leaders.

  05/08/2012 - By Administrator

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  Volunteers, inmates experience God behind prison walls

  More than 100 volunteers from seven states recently led an Experiencing God discipleship weekend for about 1,000 inmates inside nine Huntsville-area Texas Department of Criminal Justice facilities.

  05/07/2012 - By Administrator

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  Former SBC officer arrested in protest

  Wiley Drake, a former Southern Baptist Convention official was arrested May 4 for kneeling and praying outside the White House on behalf of blind Chinese human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng.

  05/07/2012 - By Administrator

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  Slavery continues in U.S. in 21st century

  Although the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865, predators still buy and sell other human beings across America, a social work professor and a police detective told a gathering of Texas Baptists.

  05/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Women at WMU annual meeting challenged to ‘Live Sent’

  Throughout the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting at First Baptist Church in Corpus Christi, speakers challenged women to "Live Sent," intentionally living where they are, taking the hope of Christ out into their communities and into the world each day.

  05/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Texas Baptist volunteers ‘Bike Out Hunger’

  More than 25 cyclists from across the state participated in Bike Out Hunger, a six-day, 430-mile cycling trip from San Antonio to Dallas to raise awareness about hunger needs across the state and raise funds to help hungry people regionally and globally.

  05/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Fire destroys Burmese Bible school

  Fire destroyed a Bible school and other buildings at a Baptist-run refugee camp on the Thailand/Myanmar border April 28.

  05/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Churches attacked in Kenya, Nigeria

  Kenyan churches are tightening security after a lone attacker exploded a grenade inside an evangelical church in Nairobi on Sunday April 29, killing one person and injuring 15. Meanwhile, a string of bombings in Nigeria during Sunday morning worship services killed at least four people in Maiduguri and 15 in Kano, with many others injured.

  05/01/2012 - By Administrator