• Board rejects study committee motion on challenging messengers

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board overwhelmingly rejected a study committee’s proposal to change how the BGCT handles messenger-seating challenges at its annual meeting.

  09/29/2010 - By Administrator

• Annual meeting needs major overhaul, study committee asserts

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting needs an extreme makeover in focus and format, the chair of a study committee told the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board.

  09/29/2010 - By Administrator

• Board recommends allowing some non-Baptist HBU trustees

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting in McAllen next month will consider whether to allow Houston Baptist University to elect non-Baptists to its board of trustees.

  09/29/2010 - By Administrator

• BGCT board recommends more cuts in 2011 budget

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board voted to recommend a $38 million 2011 budget—$3 million less than the approved 2010 budget, a 7.3 percent reduction.

  09/29/2010 - By Administrator

• Texas poverty rate rises, demand for Christian response increases

  The number of Texans living in poverty increased 11 percent in 2009 to nearly 4.3 million, including nearly 1.8 million children, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

  09/22/2010 - By Administrator

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  UMHB students help with flood relief

  After Tropical Storm Hermine dumped rain on Central Texas, students from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor helped business and homeowners in the area clean up the damage caused by the storm.

  09/21/2010 - By Administrator

• Texas Baptists Committed leader says group has moved to ‘next level’

  A recent e-mail appeal from six former Baptist General Convention of Texas presidents encouraging attendance at the state convention’s annual meeting in McAllen and an announcement regarding a new blog devoted to historic Baptist principles marked the first—but not the last—efforts of Texas Baptists Committed to reconnect with Baptists in the state, said Michael Bell, chairman of the group’s board of directors.

  09/21/2010 - By Administrator

• Civil discourse endangered in U.S., Yale law professor says

  Democracy depends on something in short supply today in the United States—civil discourse involving people who disagree, author and legal expert Stephen Carter said.

  09/20/2010 - By Administrator

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  Starr touts Christian education, announces $100 million funding plan

  American higher education needs Christian institutions like Baylor University, and Christian higher education must find a better way to fund its programs, rather than continuing to increase students’ financial burdens, Baylor President Ken Starr said.

  09/18/2010 - By Administrator

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  Ezell elected NAMB president

  Trustees elected Kentucky pastor Kevin Ezell president of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention after a four-hour called meeting Sept. 14.

  09/14/2010 - By Administrator

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  Updated: Broadway Baptist Church discontinues partnership with BGCT

  A historic Fort Worth church has cut off its 125-year-old relationship with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, saying it doesn't want to be distracted by questions concerning the congregation's position on homosexuality.

  09/13/2010 - By Administrator

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  BPFNA urges support for Muslims; N.Y. project director decries discourse

  As the leader of an effort to build an Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan expressed his dismay Sept. 13 at the rising tide of anti-Islam rhetoric across the country, the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America called on Baptists to build bridges of understanding with their Muslim neighbors.

  09/13/2010 - By Administrator