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  Baylor settles another sexual assault lawsuit

  Baylor University settled a lawsuit brought by a former student athlete who asserted she was drugged and sexually assaulted by multiple football players in 2012.

  07/16/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Out of the flood

  Three teens survived a rising river at a Bible camp in the Texas Hill Country. Would their faith?

  07/16/2018 - By Ken Camp

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  Texas Baptists to meet in Arlington for Family Gathering

  Texas Baptists will assemble July 29-31 at the Arlington Convention Center for a Family Gathering. The Texas Baptist Family Gathering includes joint sessions of the 133rd BGCT annual meeting, the African-American Fellowship Conference and the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas.

  07/16/2018 - By Kalie Lowrie / Texas Baptist Communications

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  Attorney general declines to offer opinion about poker houses

  The Texas attorney general’s office declined to offer an opinion about the legality of poker houses that charge a fee, citing a pending lawsuit.

  07/14/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Waco ministry sponsors All Immigrant Resource Fair

  To provide Hispanic immigrants a one-stop event where they could gain access to the resources they need, La Puerta Waco, the immigration ministry of First Baptist Church in Waco, sponsored the All Immigrant Resource Fair.

  07/11/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  TBM continues relief in Weslaco, wraps up work in Connecticut

  Texas Baptist Men and other Baptist disaster relief teams contributed more than 6,100 volunteer hours during the past two weeks, providing assistance to tornado survivors in Connecticut and flooded residents in the lower Rio Grande Valley.

  07/11/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Women say ex-Fort Worth youth pastor abused them

  When Pastor John Finley resigned from his Tennessee church, he told the congregation he had been “involved with two females in inappropriate behavior” but insisted they were adults and there was “no sex.” The women who sent a letter that spurred his resignation have a different story to tell about alleged abuse 37 years ago at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth. (via Star-Telegram)

  07/10/2018 - By Sarah Smith / Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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  TBM provides disaster relief in South Texas

  Multiple Texas Baptist Men disaster relief teams responded to the needs of flooded residents in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Two TBM flood-recovery crews and a team from Arkansas went…

  06/28/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Project: Start’s Regheta receives Immigrant Advocate Award

  Leonid Regheta, director of Project: Start Refugee Resource Center, a Baptist General Convention of Texas-supported ministry, received the Immigrant Advocate Award at the 7th Annual Immigrant Journey Awards.

  06/26/2018 - By Kirsten McKimmey / Texas Baptist Communications

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  ‘Not on our watch,’ Baptists say of immigrant family separation

  Cooperative Baptists gathered near the U.S.-Mexico border and declared “not on our watch” to any immigration policy that separates children from their parents who cross the border without proper documentation.

  06/25/2018 - By Marv Knox / Fellowship Southwest

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  Former HSU President Jesse Fletcher dies at age 87

  Jesse Fletcher, president emeritus of Hardin-Simmons University and originator of Southern Baptists’ missionary Journeyman program, died June 14.

  06/14/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Joel Gregory new director of preaching center at Truett Seminary

  Joel Gregory assumed new responsibilities at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary June 1 when he became director of the Kyle Lake Center for Effective Preaching.

  06/11/2018 - By Baylor University Communications