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  Religious leaders challenging anti-Muslim rhetoric, violence

  Against a background of mounting anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence, Baptist and other religious leaders spoke out Aug. 30 against Islamophobia and urged federal officials to take a more proactive role in safeguarding Muslims’ civil rights.

  08/30/2010 - By Administrator

• Feeding programs enable churches to meet needs of entire families

  More than 10 months each year, children from low-income homes know they can turn to their local school for at least one nutritious meal a day. Grace Memorial Baptist Church in Clifton provided a place of solace and sustenance for some of those children this summer.

  08/28/2010 - By admin

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  School Daze: Change in the air

  Challenges to Baptist higher education that include finances, changing demographics and fragmentation of Baptist denominations are prompting insiders to reassess what it means to be a distinctively “Baptist” institution of higher learning.

  08/28/2010 - By admin

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  Wayland five-year strategic plan focuses on ‘future generations’

  Wayland Baptist University has unveiled a strategic plan for the next five years based on being an environmentally responsible, international multicampus system offering innovative, academically challenging and distinctively Christian education.

  08/27/2010 - By admin

• Devout less stressed than nonbelievers

  Religion may provide a “buffer” allowing the devout to feel less anxiety when they make mistakes, compared with nonbelievers, according to new scientific research.

  08/27/2010 - By admin

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  Baptist higher education traces long tradition

  Baptist higher education stands on the shoulders of a long tradition in Christianity linking knowledge to faith. The Apostle Paul, many of the early church fathers and important theologians like Augustine were respected for knowledge, both in religious and secular realms.

  08/27/2010 - By admin

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  Christian higher education not spared from recession’s impact

  God makes rain fall on the just and the unjust, Jesus said. Similarly, recession makes market prices fall, affecting endowments of Christian higher education and secular universities alike.

  08/27/2010 - By admin

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  No paid staff no hurdle to Huntsville church’s ministry to college students

  University Heights Baptist Church in Huntsville has no paid staff for its college ministry but still draws about 200 students on Sunday mornings and more than 250 many Tuesday nights for a mid-week Bible study.

  08/27/2010 - By admin

• Website connects high school seniors to collegiate ministries

  Studies reveal more than two-thirds of American students who grew up in Protestant churches step away from their faith during their college years, but the Baptist General Convention of Texas Collegiate Ministry is trying to bridge the spiritual gap.

  08/27/2010 - By admin

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  Back-to-school ministry represents ‘more than a backpack’ to participants

  Churches in Corpus Christi Baptist Association gave 5,000 backpacks filled with school supplies to underprivileged children. Each child also received a copy of the New Testament and heard a presentation of the gospel.

  08/27/2010 - By admin

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  Religious groups push action on prison rape

  Religious leaders and civil rights advocates have signed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, pressing the Department of Justice to implement national standards to help prevent an estimated 60,000 cases of prison rape each year.

  08/27/2010 - By admin

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  Christ’s love on exhibit in The Museum

  The Museum—a Christian band with roots in Waco— released an album this summer, Let Love Win, which features the single “My Help Comes From the Lord,” which is receiving national radio airplay.

  08/27/2010 - By admin