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  Covenant of action inspires Dallas churches to social justice

  Two Dallas churches—one predominantly Anglo, the other historically African-American—surmount racial and geographical differences to minister to their city’s poor. (BNG)

  04/26/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  ETBU students help provide clean water in Belize

  Nine students from East Texas Baptist University served in Belize with Hope Springs Water—an Athens-based ministry committed to provide safe water, sanitation and public health education to developing countries.

  04/26/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Baptist Standard receives national recognition

  The Baptist Standard received eight awards during the recent national meetings of the Associated Church Press and the Evangelical Press Association.

  04/26/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Institutions shape character and instill virtue, theologian asserts

  Christians should recognize the importance of institutions such as churches and universities in shaping character and instilling virtue, theologian Gregory Jones told a crowd at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary.

  04/25/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Persecution and genocide demand response from U.S. Christians

  Genocide of religious minorities and assaults on religious freedom that have fueled an international refugee crisis demand a response from Christians and other people of good will, panelists at a Baylor University forum agreed.

  04/22/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Gregory Jones of Duke named Baylor provost and executive VP

  Baylor University named Gregory Jones of Duke Divinity School its executive vice president and provost.

  04/20/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Around the State: TBM offers disaster relief; student missions marks 70 years

  Texas Baptist Men assess the situation in Houston and continue disaster relief in Southeast Texas. Texas Baptists’ student missions program marks 70 years. Stephen Cook named dean at Hardin-Simmons University.

  04/20/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  East Texas family onboard the ‘foster love train’

  Robin and Barry Wright of Lufkin saw their family grow after they contacted Buckner Children and Family Services about becoming foster parents.

  04/20/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Christian foster parents needed acutely, advocates assert

  A federal judge declared the foster-care system in Texas broken, but Christians should be accustomed to redemptive work in a damaged and sin-filled world, some advocates for foster parenting insist.

  04/20/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  First Person: God made a way through foster-to-adopt

  I knew what God wanted. It wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted a private adoption with “no strings attached”—a baby we could wrap up right after birth and call ours and only ours and never share with anyone else. Instead, God told me to foster to adopt.

  04/20/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Most Americans pray for healing, Baylor study reveals

  Nearly nine of 10 Americans have relied upon healing prayer at some point in their lives, praying for others even more than for themselves, according to a study by a Baylor University epidemiologist.

  04/19/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Bobby Hall recommended as next Wayland president

  The search committee at Wayland Baptist University will recommend Bobby Hall, a longtime administrator at the university, as the university’s 13th president.

  04/18/2016 - By Ken Camp