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Walker accepts religious freedom advisory role

Walker accepts religious freedom advisory role

Former North Carolina Baptist pastor and congressman Mark Walker announced Thursday, Jan. 8, he has accepted a new role within the Trump administration focused on advancing religious liberty around the world.

01/09/2026 - By Chad Austin / Baptist Press
Baptists

Tenn. Supreme Court seeks clarity about church autonomy

Tenn. Supreme Court seeks clarity about church autonomy

Tenn. Supreme Court sought clarity, Jan. 8, on the church autonomy doctrine in a case focused on the SBC’s protocols to address sexual abuse claims.

01/09/2026 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press
Texas

Texas Baptists Evangelism event bears fruit

Texas Baptists Evangelism event bears fruit

On Nov. 15, prior to the Texas Baptists Annual Meeting in Abilene, the Texas Baptists Evangelism team, Forgotten Ministries, Broadview Baptist Church, and other churches partnered together to evangelize three Abilene apartment complexes.

01/08/2026 - By Jessica King / Texas Baptist Communications
Editorials

Editorial: Carry the gospel in a disorienting world

Editorial: Carry the gospel in a disorienting world

Nigeria, Venezuela, Minneapolis, and elsewhere, the gospel is good news, and we are called to carry it in and for this world.

01/08/2026 - By Eric Black / Editor
World

Latino evangelicals celebrate Maduro’s capture

Latino evangelicals celebrate Maduro’s capture

Since the U.S. government’s Jan. 3 capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, many Latino evangelical Christian communities in the United States have been celebrating what they call a spiritual victory as well as a political one.

01/07/2026 - By Aleja Hertzler-McCain

Faith & Culture

Philip Yancey, beloved evangelical author, retires after admitting affair

01/07/2026 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service
World

Nigerian Christian responses to U.S. Christmas strike

01/07/2026 - By Eric Black / Editor
World

Baptist ministries respond to U.S. strike on Venezuela

01/07/2026 - By Kendall Lyons / Baptist Standard
Faith & Culture

Studies reveal disappearing religious gender gap

01/07/2026 - By Faith Pratt
World

Attacks on Christians continue in Nigeria

01/07/2026 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press
Equip

Equip: How churches can receive grant funding

01/06/2026 - By Carolyn Tomlin