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  Pastor Care facilitates journey of healing and hope

  Haynes Searcy carried a burden of pain and shame from childhood, a secret so dark it led him down troubled paths, even while serving in ministry.

  08/01/2024 - By Ashley Mobley / STCH Ministries

• Obituary: Steve and Ann Storie

  Steven Craig Storie, longtime director of media services at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and his wife Ann Nichols Storie died July 23 from injuries sustained in a head-on collision. He was 68, and she was 65.

  07/31/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Mickey Burleson

  Mickey Ruth Fulwiler Burleson, an avid conservationist and supporter of Texas Baptists’ River Ministry who assisted women in the Mexican village of La Caldera by helping market their handmade quilts to buyers in Texas, died July 13. She was 87

  07/30/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Connect360: Human Flourishing

  Lesson 4 in the Connect360 unit “Sacred Life: God’s Plan for Us” focuses on Jeremiah 29:10-14.

  07/30/2024 - By Katie Frugé

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  Commitment to God fuels Armstrong’s Olympics outlook

  Hunter Armstrong’s Instagram account proclaims “GOD FIRST!” The U.S. Olympic swimmer tries to be faithful to that description, whether he’s winning gold medals or not.

  07/30/2024 - By Tim Ellsworth/Baptist Press

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  Baylor BSM receives Mabee Foundation challenge grant

  The Texas Baptist Missions Foundation announced July 30 the Mabee Foundation has awarded a $1.3 million Challenge Grant toward the construction of the new Baptist Student Ministry Center at Baylor University.

  07/30/2024 - By Texas Baptists Communications

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  Ukrainian journalists paint dire image of homeland

  Religious freedom no longer exists in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, where religious leaders have been abducted and sometimes tortured, several Ukrainian journalists said during a recent visit to the United States.

  07/30/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Archaeologists discover ancient Jerusalem moat

  Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a remnant of a massive ancient moat in Jerusalem that fortified the city during the time of the First Jewish Temple and the Kingdom of Judah.

  07/29/2024 - By Michele Chabin  / Religion News Service

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  Bounce students adapt to meet needs after storm

  One hundred middle school through college students served with Bounce in Claremore, Okla., to assist in relief efforts following tornadoes that blew through the community.

  07/22/2024 - By Jessica King / Texas Baptists Communications

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  Texans on Mission volunteers at work after Beryl

  Heat, humidity and mosquitoes dogged Texans on Mission volunteers working in Brazoria County as they cut up fallen trees, provided temporary roofs, washed laundry and went door-to-door responding to requests for help after Hurricane Beryl.

  07/18/2024 - By By John Hall and Ferrell Foster / Texans on Mission

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  Report documents religious freedom violations in Nigeria

  More than 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria over the past two decades, and “the silence from Western nations on this genocide is appalling,” a new report from International Christian Concern asserts.

  07/18/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Review: Great to Good: How Following Jesus Reshapes our Ambitions

  Editor Eric Black reviews “Great to Good” by Jae Soon Lee.

  07/18/2024 - By Eric Black / Editor