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  Women in ministry are neither divine nor demonic, pastor says

  As women enter the ministry, they will find that "there will be voices inside and outside telling you, 'You're divine' or 'You're demonic.' But both are telling you a lie," Julie Pennington-Russell, lead pastor of the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga., told an audience primarily of women at a Waco conference.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Video blog offers deeper connection between pastor and church

  A video blog gave the pastor of Second Baptist Church in Liberty, Mo., an additional venue to reach his church members and the wider community.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Beyond Facebook: Scanning the social media landscape

  What's next on the social media horizon? Some specialists see an increase in "niche" networks.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  So your church is on Facebook. What now?

  While about half of Protestant churches have Facebook pages, many essentially use it as a bulletin board, missing out on the potential to nurture relationships with congregants and its community.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Text message donors represent new category of giver, study shows

  One in 10 Americans have made a charitable donation using the text messaging feature on their mobile phones, according to a newly-released study produced by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Bible library on a chip for persecuted Christians

  Persecuted Christians now can hold an entire seminary library on a fingertip, thanks to a collaboration between Bible League International and the Digital Bible Society.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Chaplain brings ministry to TV audience’s homes

  Last year, First Baptist Church in San Antonio increased the number of volunteers to its television ministry, and Julie Webster came on board as chaplain. Rather than just praying with people who called, the volunteers ask if a follow-up call or visit from a chaplain would be acceptable. The response has been remarkable.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  U.S. mosques multiply, take ‘moderate’ approach

  The number of mosques in America has jumped 74 percent since 2000, and the majority of them—56 percent—espouse a less-than-literal approach to interpreting Islam's holy texts.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  HPU students raise money to provide clean water

  Howard Payne University students raised more than $1,800 through recent campus events to support Charity: Water, an organization dedicated to providing clean drinking water for people in developing nations.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

• Hogg Foundation supports bilingual mental health grad students at Baylor

  Baylor University graduate students Lizeth Castillo, Carolina Fuentes and Andres Felipe Monsalve have been awarded scholarships from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health to support bilingual mental health services in Texas.

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Ethics is ‘glue’ that runs through Christian disciplines

  Ethics—how people apply what they believe to daily life—is the "glue" that moves through Christian disciplines, and should strengthen an individual's commitment to evangelism, according to a presenter at Texas Baptists' Christian Life Conference.

   

  03/16/2012 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  The commission on accreditation for the Association for Biblical Higher Education voted to grant accreditation to the B.H. Carroll Theological Institute.

  03/15/2012 - By Administrator