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  ‘Love’ drew public school advocates to Austin

  Pastors, rabbis and others who met at First Baptist Church in Austin before visiting lawmakers at the Texas Capitol agreed one thing led them there—love for children and the public schools that educate them.

  03/05/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  BWA and African Baptists offer prayer for Congo Christians

  Leaders of the Baptist World Alliance and the All Africa Baptist Fellowship sent messages last week to Baptists in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, expressing “deep sorrow and continued solidarity with you during this time of crisis and suffering.”

  03/03/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Administration cancels grants to refugee aid agencies

  The Trump administration is making moves to shutter a partnership between the government and religious organizations to resettle refugees, with the State Department canceling grant agreements with all the agencies despite ongoing legal battles.

  03/03/2025 - By Jack Jenkins and Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

• Connect360: The Heart of the Matter

  Lesson 13 in the Connect360 unit “The reMARKable Journey Continues: The Gospel of Urgency” focuses on Mark 7:1-23.

  02/28/2025 - By GC2 Press Staff

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  Humanitarian crisis worsens in eastern Congo

  Conditions continue to worsen dramatically in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 25.5 million people face the danger of hunger, a Baptist leader there said.

  02/28/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Gerlach brothers spur one another on to faithful ministry

  Growing up in Irving, Jim and John Gerlach never expected they both would become pastors.

  02/28/2025 - By Leann Callaway / Special to the Baptist Standard

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  Conservative Christian media disagree about barring AP

  Normally more likely to voice support for President Donald Trump’s decisions, conservative Christian broadcasters expressed ambivalence about the White House’s resolve to bar The Associated Press from presidential events. 

  02/28/2025 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Church historian and columnist Martin Marty dead at 97

  Martin E. Marty, an eminent church historian, prolific chronicler and interpreter of religion and its role in public life, died at the age of 97 on Feb. 25 in a Minneapolis care facility where he spent his final years.

  02/28/2025 - By Bruce Buursma / Religion News Service

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  Judge blocks Trump order pausing refugee admissions

  A federal judge in Seattle issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend refugee admissions, saying the president likely exceeded his authority.

  02/26/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Disaster relief yoked with Christ, director says

  About 150 Texans on Mission disaster relief leaders gathered Feb. 15 for their annual summit, and a biblical passage became the centerpiece of the meeting.

  02/25/2025 - By Ferrell Foster / Texans on Mission

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  Judge bars warrantless immigration raids on CBF churches

  A federal judge in Maryland granted a preliminary injunction to bar immigration agents from conducting warrantless raids on Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches, as well as Quaker assemblies and a Sikh temple.

  02/25/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  70 beheaded Christians found inside DRC church

  Seventy Christians were found bound and beheaded inside a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Lubero Territory of North Kivu in mid-February.

  02/24/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor