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  Baylor regents discuss Christian environment, research

  Baylor University’s board of regents devoted much of its Feb. 22 meeting to discussing how the school can ensure it maintains an “unambiguously Christian educational environment.”

  02/25/2019 - By Lori Fogleman / Baylor University

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  Latina to lead Christian community development network

  Elia Moreno was named co-executive director of the Texas Christian Community Development Network, serving alongside Jimmy Dorrell of Mission Waco.

  02/22/2019 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  HPU dean takes holistic view of career as calling

  Even a brief conversation with Kylah Clark-Goff, dean of Howard Payne University’s School of Education, reveals her passion for learning and serving Christ.

  02/21/2019 - By Seth Rainey / Howard Payne University

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  Grand Prairie church ministers to people on the edge of survival

  Comforter Christian Center International serves people who live on the streets—veterans, recently released ex-offenders, single mothers, teens who have aged out of foster care and others who are homeless or living on the edge of survival.

  02/21/2019 - By Carolyn Tomlin

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  Research links intimacy with God and belief in biblical literalism

  Women are more likely than men to believe the Bible is literally true, but a recent Baylor University study finds this may have more to do with how people relate to God than it does gender.

  02/21/2019 - By Terry Goodrich / Baylor University

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  Partnership renewed to help BGCT churches prevent abuse

  The BGCT Executive Board unanimously voted to renew its partnership with a national organization that helps churches reduce the risk of sexual abuse.

  02/19/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  CommonCall: Second Helpings meets needs in Lufkin

  An East Texas pastor’s wife launched a community ministry to recover and repurpose food that otherwise would have gone to waste.

  02/18/2019 - By Carolyn Tomlin

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  Brownsville pastor ministers to Central American immigrants

  Like the Old Testament patriarch Joseph who was able to meet the needs of his brothers after he rose to a position of responsibility in a foreign land, Pastor Carlos Navarro of Brownsville helps minister to the needs of fellow immigrants from Central America.

  02/15/2019 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Poiema helps trafficked women rediscover their worth

  Rebecca Jowers wants young women who have been victimized by human sex traffickers to view themselves the way God sees them—as his precious creation.

  02/15/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Texas Baptists respond to clergy sex abuse

  Texas Baptists respond after an investigative report revealed about 380 ministers and volunteers in Southern Baptist churches sexually abused more than 700 people in 20 years.

  02/13/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Absence of lament in worship leads to spiritual stagnation

  Public worship that fails to include lament leads to spiritual stagnation and spiritually anemic believers, an Old Testament scholar told a crowd at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary.

  02/13/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Ethicist: Welcome Muslims to the table of fellowship

  Christ’s followers must “make space” for people who hold deeply different views—not only in the public square, but also at the table of fellowship, a Christian ethicist told a crowd at Howard Payne University.

  02/11/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor