Zombie Texas Lottery Commission back from the dead

For a few hours April 23, the Texas Lottery appeared dead.

04/24/2013 - By Ken Camp

Texas Senate passes tougher-than-expected payday lending bill

The Texas Senate voted 24-6 to approve an unexpectedly tough bill to regulate payday and auto-title lenders in the state.

04/23/2013 - By Ken Camp

Run for Boston memorial event at ETBU honors bombing victims

One week after the bombings at the Boston Marathon, East Texas Baptist University honored the victims with a Run for Boston event.

04/23/2013 - By Ken Camp

CLC withdraws opposition to Carona payday lending bill

A coalition that includes the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission withdrew opposition to a payday lending bill after the legislation’s sponsor agreed to make changes.

04/22/2013 - By Ken Camp

First Baptist Church in West urges members to lean on God

Pastor John Crowder offered words of hope from a makeshift pulpit in an open field when First Baptist Church gathered for its first worship service after an April 17 explosion at a local fertilizer plant.

04/22/2013 - By John Rutledge

Event allows cyclists to raise money, awareness about hunger

Hundreds of cycling events support everything from cancer research to schools. One event focuses on hunger in Texas.

04/20/2013 - By John Rutledge

Impact of Branch Davidian tragedy still felt 20 years later

Twenty years after a 51-day siege at the Mount Carmel compound near Waco ended in the deaths of about 80 members of the Branch Davidian sect, the event continues to shape national debate on subjects ranging from religious liberty and individual rights to policies on terrorism, experts told a conference a Baylor University.

04/19/2013 - By John Rutledge

Texas Tidbits: Al Travis honored

Al Travis, director of music at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, received the Baptist Church Music Conference’s 2013 W. Hines Sims Award for lifetime achievement.

04/19/2013 - By John Rutledge

Baptists respond to West blast with aid, prayer

UPDATE: Local, regional and state church groups responded April 18 to the deadly fertilizer explosion that leveled portions of West, Texas, on Wednesday night.

04/18/2013 - By John Rutledge

Texas Baptists respond to West explosion

UPDATE: The fertilizer plant explosion that claimed as many as 15 lives and injured more than 160 others also damaged First Baptist Church and destroyed Pastor John Crowder’s home.

04/18/2013 - By John Rutledge

Offering helps bring vegetables to children in food desert

An impoverished Central Waco neighborhood has no grocery stores nearby. It’s what experts call a food desert—a place where vegetables and other healthy food are hard to find.

04/17/2013 - By Ken Camp

Texas Baptists help train church leaders in Haiti