• Church-starting leader JV Thomas dead at age 94

  09/08/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  James Virgil “JV” Thomas Jr., who led Texas Baptists’ church-starting initiatives to new heights, died Aug. 27 in Colleyville. He was 94.

• Obituary: Charles “Chuck” Dooley

  09/05/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Charles “Chuck” Richard Dooley, a Texas Baptist pastor and leader in church starting, died Aug. 30. He was 91.

• Obituary: Henry Stovall

  08/29/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Henry Stovall, longtime Baptist pastor, died June 11 in Bryan. He was 77.

• Baptist missions leader Keith Parks dies at 97

  08/27/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  R. Keith Parks, international missions leader of both the Southern Baptist Convention and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, died Aug. 26. He was 97.

• Focus on the Family founder James Dobson dies at 89

  08/22/2025 - By David Mark and Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

  James C. Dobson, a psychologist who advocated a “family values” brand of conservative Christian morality on his popular radio shows and in his bestselling books, died Aug. 21. He was 89.

• Obituary: Kay Patterson Abney

  08/19/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Kay Peterson Abney, retired teacher and pastor’s wife, died Aug. 14. She was 77.

• Obituary: Roberta Stripling

  08/13/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Marion Roberta Donnell Stripling, former schoolteacher and partner in ministry, died Aug. 9 in Waco. She was 87.

• Obituary: Donald Schmeltekopf

  08/05/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Donald D. Schmeltekopf of Waco, provost emeritus at Baylor University, died July 30. He was 85.

• Obituary: Christa Elisabeth Kunkel Smith

  07/24/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Christa Elisabeth Kunkel Smith, professor emeritus at Wayland Baptist University, died July 16. She was 92.

• Obituary: Robert Leslie Richardson

  07/22/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Robert Leslie Richardson, a Texas Baptist minister, died May 9. He was 90.

• Obituary: Aubrey Howell

  07/07/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Aubrey Howell of Lubbock, longtime Baptist pastor, died June 29. He was 92.

• Bill Moyers had deep and abiding Texas Baptist ties

  06/30/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

  Bill Moyers, a renowned broadcast journalist with strong Texas Baptist roots, died June 26 in New York, N.Y. He was 91.