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  Faith and Gen Z: Lauren Beal

  Gen Z continues to report limited opportunity and hopelessness, but some Texas Baptist university graduates offer a different take.

  07/05/2024 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  California Baptists cut staff, citing giving shortfall

  The California Southern Baptist announced it had cut six staff jobs, citing an ongoing decline in giving.

  07/05/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Challenges to abortion bans on religious freedom grounds falter

  Some legal strategists have challenged state abortion bans saying they infringe on religious freedom by imposing a Christian understanding of when life begins. That strategy recently took a beating in the courts.

  07/03/2024 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

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  Judge rules against Paxton in Annunciation House case

  An El Paso district court judge ruled Attorney General Ken Paxton violated the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment in his targeting of Annunciation House, a network of nonprofit Catholic migrant shelters.

  07/03/2024 - By Aleja Hertzler-McCain / Religion News Service

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  Texans on Mission help church meet water needs in Cuba

  When a group from Crosspoint Church in McKinney recently traveled with Proclaim Cuba to minister in that Caribbean country, they took with them water filters provided by Texans on Mission.

  07/03/2024 - By Ferrell Foster / Texans on Mission

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  Texas legislators vow to expand statutes of limitations on abuse

  Alleged abuse by Robert Morris has prompted calls for reforms not only in the church but at the state Capitol.

  07/03/2024 - By James Russell / Religion News Service

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  Around the state: Hedgepath steps into Wayland presidency

  Wayland Baptist University entered a new chapter July 1 with the arrival of Donna Hedgepath, as the university’s 14th president.

  07/03/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Hispanic Baptists reminded: Trust in God without limits

  “Sin Limites/Without Limits” was the Convención Bautista Hispana de Texas meeting theme as speakers challenged Hispanic Texas Baptists to consider limitless possibilities, because they serve a God of unlimited power.

  07/02/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Students share how UMHB helped them find faith

  Some students arrive at UMHB with more questions than answers about their futures and faith but leave changed, healed and saved.

  07/02/2024 - By Christi Mays / University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

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  Thousands of faith leaders and activists rally for poor

  Thousands of clergy, union members and activists rallied on behalf of the poor near the U.S. Capitol on June 29.

  07/02/2024 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Brazilian Christian groups oppose abortion penalty bill

  A bill aiming to increase punishment for abortion after 22 weeks has spurred controversy in Brazil, leading to demonstrations against it.

  07/01/2024 - By Eduardo Campos Lima / Religion News Service

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  Guarneri: Focus on God’s faithfulness, not giant challenges

  In spite of giant obstacles, God’s people cannot afford to be paralyzed by fear or retreat to the past, Julio Guarneri told the Convención Bautista Hispana de Texas.

  07/01/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor