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  Texas Tidbits: Three Texas Acteens named to national panel

  Three of the six young women named as 2015 National Acteens Panelists are from Texas Baptist churches.

  02/13/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Armenian Genocide a warning to resist religious persecution

  The genocide of Armenian Christians almost exactly 100 years ago provides a graphic reminder of evil and a call to vigilance, since Christians across the Middle East still suffer persecution, an expert on the atrocity told Dallas Baptist University audiences.

  02/13/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Universal truths crucial for good decisions, Bush tells UMHB crowd

  Good decisions demand recognition of universal truths and adherence to unchanging principles, former President George W. Bush told a crowd at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.

  02/13/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  ‘Substantial’ difference in proposed RFRA language

  Baptists helped craft the Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the national level and secured its passage at the state level in Texas. But some Texas Baptists are leery of language in a proposed RFRA-based state constitutional amendment.

  02/11/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Presidents: Faith-based universities offer society ‘ethical ammo’

  The presidents of Baylor University, the Catholic University of America in Washington and Yeshiva University in New York agreed at a meeting in Washington, D.C., that religious higher education is essential for the country’s health.

  02/11/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist notes improved health among North Korean orphans

  A Korean Texas Baptist will travel to North Korea next month to ensure the delivery of 60 tons of corn and 10 tons of wheat noodles to schools, orphanages and a hospital, and he expects to deliver an equally large shipment later in the year.

  02/11/2015 - By John Rutledge

• Religion can help victimized college women trust again, study shows

  College women who have been victimized sexually often have trouble trusting anyone after being assaulted, but religion can help them cope and overcome emotional damage, Baylor University research shows.

  02/09/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Ebola waning, but food crisis continues in West Africa

  Although the spread of Ebola in West Africa has slowed, the food crisis caused by the epidemic continues, a Liberian Baptist leader told the director of Texas Baptists’ Disaster Recovery program.

  02/06/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Debates on definition of marriage nothing new, church historian asserts

  Legislators and judges in the United States who struggle to define marriage find themselves in the unlikely company of 16th century reformers and their Pietist Protestant heirs, church historian A.G. Roeber believes.

  02/06/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Lee Strobel: Gospel truth reasonable, but demands faith commitment

  Proofs pointing to the reality of Jesus’ resurrection open the door for many skeptics to embrace faith in him, Lee Strobel told a crowd of more than 500 at the [un]Apologetic Conference at Hunters Glen Baptist Church in Plano.

  02/05/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  ETBU alum donates kidney to longtime friend

  Shane Moore and Joey Sutton were boyhood friends and fraternity brothers at East Texas Baptist University. Now they share an even closer bond. Sutton donated a kidney to Moore.

  02/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Texas Tidbits: Lilly Endowment grants $500,000 to Truett

  The Lilly Endowment awarded a $500,000 grant to Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary to strengthen the quality of preaching.

  01/30/2015 - By John Rutledge