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ERLC opposes IVF, calls for Senate oversight

The chief ethicist for the Southern Baptist Convention wants the federal government to clamp down on in-vitro fertilization, saying it causes harm to children and their mothers.

06/04/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Tornado cut short prayer service, tore off church wall

The sky grew dark with threatening clouds shortly before 6 p.m. May 22, but the eight people gathered for the midweek service at Dyess Grove Baptist Church decided to go ahead as planned.

05/31/2024 - By Ferrell Foster / Texans on Mission

Henderson helps churches fulfill the Great Commission

Kyle Henderson felt a clear calling from God to resign the pastorate of a church he loves to step out by faith and raise his own financial support to help churches to fulfill Christ’s Great Commission by 2033.

05/31/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Small church leads giving to Texans on Mission

Twenty years ago, Vincent Baptist Church had to decide whether to disband. The church kept going. Today, it’s a leading financial contributor to Texans on Mission.

05/30/2024 - By Ferrell Foster / Texans on Mission

NAMB relationship with BGCT appears murky

A spokesperson for the SBC North American Mission Board asserted “nothing has changed, and nothing is new” regarding its policy to grant church-starting funds only to state conventions that have affirmed the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message.

05/29/2024 - By Eric Black & Ken Camp / Baptist Standard

Former seminary staffer ordered assault report destroyed

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary released more details about the attempted cover-up of a report about a sexual assault on campus that landed a former seminary staffer in federal court, charged with obstruction of justice.

05/29/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Obituary: Nancy Layne Russell

Nancy Layne Russell, longtime Texas Baptist church musician, died May 24 in Lubbock after a two-year battle with cancer. She was 76.

05/29/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Church places Matt Queen on leave after federal charges

A North Carolina Baptist church has suspended its pastor after he was indicted on allegations of giving false records to the FBI.

05/29/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Around the State: BUA receives Lilly preaching grant

Baptist University of the Américas received a $1.2 million grant from Lilly Endowment to help establish Proclama.

05/29/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Dallas deacons convert containers into housing in Ukraine

Four deacons from Cliff Temple Baptist Church in Dallas recently spent two weeks in Ukraine, helping a Christian ministry there convert shipping containers into housing for displaced people.

05/29/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

American missionaries killed by gangs in Haiti

Three people—a Haitian man and an American couple who all worked for a Christian mission organization—were killed by gang members near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on May 23.

05/27/2024 - By Fiona André / Religion News Service

School for refugee children begins anew in Uganda

After civil war forced a school for refugee children in Sudan to close, the Texas Baptist Eritrean church that founded it has launched another similar school in Uganda.

05/24/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor