6+ hour, 59+ min ago  (1221+ words) David Roach / Baptist Press NASHVILLE'A desire to protect Southern Baptist theology is motivating at least one Southern Baptist theologian in Texas and a North Carolina pastor-historian to look to the Nicene Creed to shore up some important stances, but opinions…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (253+ words) Kendall Lyons / Baptist Standard Texans on Mission deployed mobile units to provide food and resources to residents in storm-ravaged parts of Springtown and Runaway Bay. Volunteers were mobilized to those communities Sunday to provide relief efforts including food distribution, debris…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (1061+ words) There is no such thing as "separation of church and state" in the U. S. Constitution," the leader of the White House"s Religious Liberty Commission recently declared. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who sometimes preaches at Houston"s Second Baptist Church,…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (761+ words) Faith Pratt / Baptist Standard "How do you eat your rice?" Joyce Porto, multicultural consultant at the Women's Missionary Union of Texas, asked guests during a recent WMU Pursue Conference workshop." Some people use forks, while other people use chopsticks, or…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (523+ words) " | "Source: BAPTIST PRESS Carol Pipes / Baptist Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. Lifeway Christian Resources trustees elected Ryan Blackwell as the organization's 11th president and CEO during a special-called meeting April 22 in Nashville. "I'm deeply humbled and grateful to be given this opportunity by…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (587+ words) Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service (RNS)Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, announced to students gathered for a chapel service on Oct. 14 his plans to retire next summer. Reading from a short letterthe same one he sent to…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (866+ words) Faith Pratt / Baptist Standard Texas Senate Bill 10 mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms is in force after a 9-8 majority of the 5th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Texas law." The April 21 decision…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1260+ words) Faith Pratt / Baptist Standard The Woman's Missionary Union of Texas Pursue Conference rallied believers around a theme of discipleship, encouraging them to pursue God, pursue others for God, and recognize they are pursued by God." "Do you like to receive…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (550+ words) Scott Barkley / Baptist Press WAKE FOREST, N. C. Trustees of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary voted unanimously April 21 to install Scott Pace as the entity's seventh president. He will officially succeed Daniel Akin on July 31. Southeastern Board Chair Carlos Goodrich pointed to Pace's…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1283+ words) Kathryn Post / Religion News Service (RNS)When the conservative political group Turning Point USA scheduled a campus tour stop at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, for Wednesday, April 22, organizers'advertised'it as "a chance to honor Charlie's mission" and as a venue…...