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With the formation of Texas Baptist Women in Ministry, Texas joins nine other states in creating an organization to encourage women who serve in Baptist churches and advocate for expanded ministry opportunities for women.
03/04/2015 - By John Rutledge
Providing sources of pure drinking water represents a rapidly growing avenue for ministry in developing countries, the Texas Baptist Men executive board learned at their Feb. 20-21 meeting.
02/27/2015 - By John Rutledge
New Testament scholar Todd Still has been named dean of Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, effective June 1.
02/25/2015 - By John Rutledge
A quarter century after forming to resist fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist Convention, theology professor Roger Olson says the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is increasingly polarizing over liberal views gaining ground in the originally moderate group.
Biology, not psychology, determines gender identity, according to the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board.
02/24/2015 - By John Rutledge
The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board staff is preparing for “a reset” to serve an ever-changing state and Texas Baptist churches, Executive Director David Hardage told the BGCT Executive Board.
American Christians risk embracing racial faith without even being aware of it, noted Willie James Jennings, associate professor of theology and black church studies at Duke University Divinity School.
02/19/2015 - By John Rutledge
Recent retiree Bobbie Jo Stewart spent 11 years as circulation and music library supervisor at Howard Payne University’s Walker Memorial Library, but her involvement with the university spans six decades.
Dallas Baptist University’s board of trustees elected Gary Cook as chancellor and announced plans to appoint a search committee to seek a new president.
Some Christians may feel their values are under attack in a culture that seems bent on achieving homosexual rights and legalizing same-sex marriage, but a Texas Baptist theologian and cultural analyst believes churches should instead look at opportunities for ministry.
02/18/2015 - By John Rutledge
Popular culture equates gay rights to civil rights, but it’s an unfair comparison, theologian Jim Denison told participants at a seminar on the church and homosexuality sponsored by Denton Baptist Association.
The Bible clearly speaks against homosexual behavior, but the prevailing culture doesn’t want to hear it, Jim Denison of the Denison Forum on Truth and Culture told participants at a Denton Baptist Association seminar.
