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  TBM extends EVP partnership in Israel

  The Texas Baptist Men board of directors voted to extend the missions organization’s partnership with the Emergency Volunteers Project in Israel for another two years.

  02/24/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Former deans and provost criticize plan to close Logsdon

  Two former deans of the Logsdon School of Theology said a trustee-approved plan to close Logsdon Seminary and scale back the remaining undergraduate religion program appear contrary to the original intent of the donors whose gifts established them.

  02/21/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  BGCT Executive Board elects Ward Hayes as CFO

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board unanimously elected Ward Hayes, a Stephenville pastor and certified public accountant with more than two decades of banking experience, as Texas Baptists’ treasurer and chief financial officer.

  02/18/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  HSU president addresses BGCT Executive Board

  HSU trustees voted to close Logsdon Seminary and direct endowment earnings to undergraduate programs in the School of Theology because the university could not “keep two financially weak programs going,” President Eric Bruntmyer told Texas Baptist leaders.

  02/18/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  HSU cuts faculty and programs to address $4 million deficit

  A week after its board of trustees meeting, Hardin-Simmons University announced at least 17 faculty cuts due to the elimination of multiple programs to address a more than $4 million operating deficit. (Updated Feb. 15.)

  02/14/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Albert Reyes still running toward his Father’s voice

  Helping discouraged families find hope keeps Albert Reyes motivated as he enters his second decade as president of Buckner International.

  02/14/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  War and peace not abstract or distant issues, ethicist insists

  When it comes to matters of war and peace, no American Christian is “off the hook,” and any attempt to distance the church from that responsibility is both bad theology and poor pastoral ministry, a Baptist ethicist told an audience at Howard Payne University.

  02/14/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  HSU president: Seminary closing ‘solely a financial decision’

  Closing Logsdon Seminary was “solely a financial decision” reached after an extended period of analysis, discussion and prayer, Hardin-Simmons University President Eric Bruntmyer wrote in a Feb. 12 letter to the “HSU Family.”

  02/12/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

• Connect360: The Master’s Touch

  Lesson 13 in the BaptistWay Press Connect360 unit “Miracles: The Transforming Power of Jesus” focuses on Matthew 20:29-34.

  02/12/2020 - By Stan Granberry / BaptistWay Press

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  IMB hires abuse prevention and response administrator

  The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board selected Somer Nowak to fill the newly created position of prevention and response administrator.

  02/12/2020 - By Ken Camp

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  Ezell presents five-year goals for NAMB

  Kevin Ezell, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, presented a series of five-year goals for the missions agency, including more than doubling the number of Send Relief ministry centers.

  02/12/2020 - By Mike Ebert / North American Mission Board

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  Lilly grant to benefit Center for Financial Health

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas will receive $1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to continue the expansion of the Center for Financial Health, a ministry dedicated to promoting the financial health of pastors.

  02/12/2020 - By Texas Baptists Communications