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  Families celebrate adoption & diversity at Heritage Day

  Participants in a Heritage Day celebration hosted by Dillon International and Buckner International completed a worldwide tour without leaving the campus of Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston.

   

  04/01/2011 - By admin

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  DBU students running with a mission in mind

  A challenge to run in Fort Worth's Cowtown Marathon helped convince 38 students and faculty from Dallas Baptist Univeristy to raise $5,743 to help DBU students participate in summer mission trips;

  04/01/2011 - By admin

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  Does God punish through natural disasters? Most Americans say, ‘No’

  We may never know why bad things happen to good people, but most Americans—except evangelicals—reject the idea that natural disasters are divine punishment, a test of faith or some other sign from God, according to a recent poll.

  04/01/2011 - By admin

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  ‘Of Gods and Men’ traces murder and martyrdom

  Of Gods and Men, a new film based on the kidnapping and murder of seven Algerian monks in 1996, is a poweful depiction of how members of religious communities are called to live.

  04/01/2011 - By admin

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  Wayland Anchorage student group on a roll to benefit shelter

  Wayland Baptist University’s Anchorage campus and its student chapter of the Society of Human Resource Management recently collected 4,650 rolls of toilet paper for a homeless shelter.

  04/01/2011 - By admin

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  Irving church stays focused on missions over spring break

  Instead of hitting the beach or other vacation spots during spring break, volunteers from First Baptist Church in Irving hit the streets of south Irving on a mission for Jesus.

  03/31/2011 - By admin

• Court accepts Drake’s ‘birther’ appeal

  Nearly two-and-a-half years into his term, a federal appeals court has agreed to hear oral arguments in a case alleging that Barack Obama is not eligible to serve as president of the United States. A former Southern Baptist Convention vice president is plaintiff in the case.

  03/31/2011 - By Administrator

• Pinson to deliver Maston Lectures at Hardin-Simmons University

  Bill Pinson, executive director emeritus of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and a student and colleague of pioneering Baptist ethicist T.B. Maston, will speak at the lecture series named in Maston’s honor at Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon Seminary in Abilene.

  03/30/2011 - By Administrator

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  Small groups crucial, but not cure-all

  Establishing small groups within a large church—heralded by some as a remedy to the drawbacks of burgeoning congregation size—is “good medicine,” but not a cure-all, according to a national study by Baylor University sociologists.

  03/25/2011 - By admin

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  Baptist ethicist says US role in Libya fails ‘just war’ test

  A Baptist ethicist insists President Obama's stated intent for U.S. military intervention in Libya lies outside parameters used for centuries to determine whether a war is morally just.

  03/25/2011 - By Administrator

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  Former pastor bestows painting at sesquicentennial

  When First Baptist Church of Waxahachie recently celebrated its 150th anniversary, former pastor Bill Austin, who served the church as pastor from 1961 to 1965, not only preached the anniversary sermon, but also made a special presentation at the end of the service.

  03/24/2011 - By admin

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  Payday lending is ‘financial slavery,’ faith leaders insist

  Gathered on the steps of the capitol, representatives of Texas’ faith communities stood against what they called the “immoral” and “predatory” practices of payday lenders who enslave the state’s poor in a crippling cycle of debt.

   

  03/24/2011 - By admin