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  CommonCall: South Dallas church committed to ‘Feed 5,000’

  Jesus fed hungry multitudes, and a South Dallas church believes it should do no less. New El Bethel Baptist Church in Dallas launched Feed 5,000 about 11 years ago to provide food to homeless people.

  11/26/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  ‘Fixer Upper’ stars to host church for the homeless

  With construction slated for I-35 through Waco, Church Under the Bridge will need a temporary new home. Chip and Joanna Gaines have offered the lawn of Magnolia Market.

  11/21/2018 - By Bobby Ross Jr. / Religion News Service

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  Who’s going to say grace at Thanksgiving?—Baptist families in ministry

  This Thanksgiving, in many ministry families, the pastor at the table will be expected to say grace. But in the Crosby and Curry families, they may have to play “Rock, Paper, Scissors” to decide which pastor will pray.

  11/20/2018 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Author contrasts slaveholder religion and the freedom church

  Throughout American history, two versions of Christianity have competed for the loyalty of believers—slaveholder religion and the freedom church, author Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove told a Dallas audience.

  11/19/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Lives changed and community restored in Nederland

  A gospel-centered community group meeting in a house became a thriving and growing church reaching the lost and the broken in Nederland.

  11/19/2018 - By Kalie Lowrie and Stephanie Arosemena / Texas Baptist Communications

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  Public school advocacy vital to Christians’ public witness

  Progressive Christians should acknowledge every child’s right to quality education as a justice issue, and conservative Christians should recognize neighborhood public schools’ capacity to build responsible citizens with moral vision, Charles Foster Johnson said.

  11/19/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  BSM director sees God’s provision in aftermath of wreck

  Cody Shouse, Baptist Student Ministry director at the University of Texas, sat in Austin traffic on April 5, slowly making his way home from a weekly Bible study at the Longhorn BSM when another vehicle traveling 60 miles per hour hit his vehicle.

  11/19/2018 - By Kirsten McKimmey / Texas Baptist Communications

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  CommonCall: From a meth house to God’s house

  Residents at an Abilene mobile home park tend to come and go, but the few who have lived there several years know the property where Pleasant Hills Country Church meets once housed a meth lab.

  11/16/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Becky Ellison trusts God and serves while battling cancer

  Becky Ellison knows what it means to live one day at a time. Since being diagnosed with cancer in 2010, she said a key question guides her: “If I had one more minute and I wanted to live it like God wanted me to live it, what would that look like?”

  11/15/2018 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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  Churches fight predatory payday lending

  Churches seek to help lower-income Americans caught in a never-ending loan cycle. While profits for lenders can be substantial, the toll on families can be devastating.

  11/14/2018 - By Mark A. Kellner / Religion News Service

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  TV celebrity craftsman urges hunger fighters to persevere

  Move beyond failure and reach for seemingly unattainable dreams, such as a world without hunger, TV celebrity woodworker Clint Harp urged participants at the Together at the Table Hunger and Poverty Summit.

  11/13/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Redefine goals to eliminate hunger and improve lives

  Hunger-fighting ministries should not allow lesser goals, such as distributing a prescribed amount of food, to substitute for truly worthy goals of eliminating hunger and helping families emerge from poverty, speakers told a Baylor University summit.

  11/12/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor