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  Voices: Justice looks like leaning in to grief

  Ali Corona brings a therapist’s perspective to how addressing individual and corporate grief is part of pursuing justice.

  09/20/2021 - By Ali Corona

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  Editorial: How committed are Baptists to their principles?

  Two recent tweets ignited the fire of principle. The two tweets seem disparate, but they converge at the point of Baptist principles.

  09/15/2021 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Symphony of TBM activity meets needs after hurricane

  The parking lot at Ascension Baptist Church in Gonzales, La., gets noisy early each morning, but it’s music to the ears of local residents. It means Texas Baptist Men volunteers are cooking meals for people in the hurricane-ravaged area.

  09/15/2021 - By John Hall / Texas Baptist Men

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  Voices: God changed me through the Baptist Student Union

  Ruth Cook shares how God changed her perspective of the world through the Baptist Student Union at the University of Texas at Arlington.

  09/14/2021 - By Ruth Cook

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  Jay Abernathy: House of Faith: The Door

  “There needs to be something at the front of our lives that obviously identifies us as belonging to Christ,” Jay Abernathy, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Woodville, said (Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Matthew 7:13-14).

  09/14/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  UN official links global conflict and acute hunger

  Chronic hunger has decreased globally in recent years, but armed conflict has increased the prevalence of acute hunger, the chief of the United Nations’ food-assistance and humanitarian agency said.

  09/13/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Jan Daehnert: ‘A networker and encourager’

  Jan Daehnert—interim pastor, educator and Texas Baptist leader—shares his background and thoughts on Christian education.

  09/13/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Voices: Justice looks like Onesimus, the bishop of Ephesus

  Rev. Samuel Doyle tells the story of Onesimus, the subject of a letter to Philemon by Paul, and how the broader story depicts justice.

  09/13/2021 - By Rev. Samuel Doyle

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  Court halts Texas execution for now, will hear oral arguments

  The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of a Texas inmate who had asked the state to allow his pastor to lay hands on him and pray for him at the moment of his death—a request the state denied.

  09/09/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Voices: Three Christian men and a couple of thoughts

  Don Newbury remembers the humble grace of three Texas Baptist leaders and shares a couple of thoughts on religion.

  09/08/2021 - By Don Newbury

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  Editorial: I knew one of the more than 600,000

  Chances are good you knew one of the more than 600,000 people COVID-19 has taken just in the United States. Chances are good you are mourning.

  09/07/2021 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Dr. Ray Malone: It’s a Blessing to Follow the Leader

  Dr. Ray Malone, director of human resources for the Baptist General Convention of Texas, began by pointing to the redundancy of the Scripture passage, noting such redundancy is a lesson God wants to get across. (Numbers 9:15-23)

  09/07/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard