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Doug Wilson demonstrates growing national influence

Critics say Christ Church’s renown has less to do with God than with Pastor Doug Wilson’s dedication to Christian nationalism and his ties to like-minded officials in the Trump administration and among its allies.

12/12/2025 - By Tracy Simmons / FāVS News

Truett Seminary explores merger with Leland Center

Baylor receives major Lilly grant for Truett Seminary

Baylor University received a $9.76 million Lilly Endowment grant to launch and provide financial support for the Ministry for Life initiative at Baylor’s Truett Theological Seminary.

12/11/2025 - By Beth Ann Hargis / Truett Theological Seminary

BUA organiza el retiro ‘Llamados al Ministerio’

La Universidad Bautista de las Américas en San Antonio acogió el retiro “Llamados al Ministerio” de los bautistas de Texas los días 5 y 6 de diciembre.

12/10/2025 - By La Universidad Bautista de las Américas

BUA hosts Called to Ministry retreat

Texas Baptist youth gathered Dec. 5-6 on the Baptist University of the Américas campus in San Antonio for a Called to Ministry retreat.

12/10/2025 - By Staff / Baptist University of the Américas

Wisdom-Martin announces WMU retirement plans

Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director-treasurer of national Woman’s Missionary Union, announced Dec. 10 she will retire in January 2027, marking 36 years of ministry service.

12/10/2025 - By Julie Walters / Woman’s Missionary Union

Around the State: HCU holds ceremony for new STEM facility

Houston Christian University hosted a ceremony Dec. 2 marking the completion of the structural phase of the Smith Engineering Science and Nursing Building.

12/09/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Isaiah 41, Psalms 23 and 91 among top Bible app passages

For the fourth time in the last six years, Isaiah 41:10 was the most downloaded Scripture of the year on the YouVersion family of Bible apps, which according to its founder has been installed on 1 billion devices nationwide.

12/09/2025 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Willimon offers Advent reminders to Texas pastors

Advent should remind justice-minded Christians their “yearning” and “longing for more” is rooted in the awareness God’s kingdom has come, but it also is yet to come, theologian Will Willimon told religious leaders on a Zoom call convened by Pastors for Texas Children.

12/09/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Decline of religion remains stalled, but no revival yet

A decades-long religious decline remains stalled for now, according to a report based on data from two Pew Research Center surveys. However, young Americans remain less religious than their parents or grandparents, with just over half (55 percent) claiming a religion.

12/09/2025 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Children deserve the best, BGCT president asserts

Debbie Potter, newest president of the BGCT, addresses children’s ministry and more in a Baptist Standard interview.

12/08/2025 - By Calli Keener

Indian Christians call for religious freedom protections

Two thousand Christians gathered in India in November to urge the government to protect religious freedoms as violence and legalized discrimination increase in the world’s most populous country.

12/08/2025 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Religious dissidents subjected to mistreatment in prison

Oppressive governments not only violate freedom of religion by imprisoning adherents of disfavored religions, but also subjecting them to harassment and even torture during their incarceration, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reports.

12/06/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor