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  Baylor receives major grant for Truett’s Future Church Project

  Baylor University has received a $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to help Truett Theological Seminary launch its Future Church Project.

  12/15/2021 - By Lori Fogleman / Baylor University

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  Texas Baptists respond after tornadoes hit mid-South

  When multiple tornadoes ripped through the mid-South, a Baptist congregation in Garland partnered with Texas Baptist Men to deliver supplies to help a Hispanic Baptist pastor in Mayfield, Ky., minister to his community.

  12/14/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  HPU prof hopes to combat hunger with micro-animal farming

  Howard Payne University professor Martin Mintchev and students from his engineering science class aim to combat world hunger using micro-animal farming.

  12/08/2021 - By Staff / Howard Payne University 

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  Family’s support helps Baylor protect Black Gospel music

  A professor’s search-and-rescue mission to prevent the loss of musical history and a family’s desire to honor the wishes of their late husband and father combined not only to preserve a distinctly African American art form, but also give it the academic attention it previously lacked.

  12/07/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  TBM handles logistics to address foster care housing

  Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers are helping address an out-of-the-ordinary emergency by helping the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services care for children in the foster care system.

  12/02/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  South Texas Hispanic church prospers through pandemic

  Many churches struggled through the COVID-19 pandemic, but one predominantly Hispanic congregation in South Texas grew by every measure throughout the last 20 months.

  12/01/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Vernon pastor learns lessons from preaching 100 straight days

  There are many lessons Toby Castleberry, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, received after closing out a series on the Gospel of John Nov. 14.

  12/01/2021 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  North Texas Christian artist paints with a purpose

   While serving as the artist in residence at First Baptist Church in Irving the past seven years, Robin Oas has created large-scale paintings designed to bring the gospel to life. 

  11/29/2021 - By Leann Callaway / Special to the Baptist Standard

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  CommonCall: Oasis in a food desert

  Jubilee Food Market in northwest Waco and Southpoint Community Market in South Dallas look dramatically different, but they share some common traits.

  11/29/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Attorney general opinion requested on gambling law

  An Arlington legislator has asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for an opinion that could affect how, and whether, commercial poker clubs operate in the state.

  11/26/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  BUA regresa a casa libre de deudas

  La Baptist University of the Américas (BUA, o Universidad Bautista de las Américas en español) comenzará un nuevo capítulo a mediados de diciembre cuando cierre la venta de la propiedad en la que ha estado durante los últimos seis años y se traslade sin ninguna deuda a las instalaciones reacondicionadas en 60 acres a lo largo de la Interestatal 35, que ya son suyas.

  11/26/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Property sale retires BUA debt, enables relocation

  Baptist University of the Américas will begin a new chapter in mid-December when it closes on the sale of the property it has occupied the past six years and moves debt-free into repurposed facilities it already owns on 60 acres across Interstate 35.

  11/22/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor