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  Seminary president seeks to build bridges

  If Texas Baptists notice a change in the “tone” and “tenor” of Southwestern Seminary’s leaders, but not in the institution’s commitment to the Southern Baptist Convention’s doctrinal statement, then Adam Greenway will feel like he has made progress.

  10/14/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Scholars and journalists grapple with language about abuse

  Christianity is reassessing how to describe sexual misconduct, with an eye to owning up to the seriousness of abuse that was once dismissed as innocent or covered up to protect the powerful.

  10/14/2019 - By Adelle M. Banks & Emily McFarland Miller / Religion News Service

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  Young leader answers God’s call at RA camp

  Sometimes God calls in a quiet voice. Other times, it practically knocks a person over, as Savion Lee discovered. 

  10/11/2019 - By John Hall / Texas Baptist Men

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  Public schools preserve and protect freedom, Johnson asserts

  Public schools in the United States offer the “meeting place for widening diversity” where students learn to live with others who hold different views, a Baptist preacher and advocate for public education told a Baylor University gathering.

  10/11/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Around the State: Wayland receives grant for KALEO program; Baylor extends Livingstone’s contract

  Wayland Baptist University received a $300,000 sustainability grant from the Lilly Endowment’s Youth Theology Network for KALEO, a program designed to foster Christian leadership among high school juniors and seniors. Baylor University has extended the contract of President Linda Livingstone.

  10/09/2019 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Teen and college food insecurity a hidden crisis, research shows

  Food insecurity among teenagers and college students represents a hidden crisis, student researchers from two faith-based Texas universities told seminar participants at Baylor University summit on hunger and poverty.

  10/08/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Complaint filed after judge gave Bible to convicted Guyger

  The Freedom from Religion Foundation has filed a letter of complaint with a Texas judicial conduct commission against a Dallas judge for offering a Bible to former police officer Amber Guyger after sentencing her for the murder of her neighbor, Botham Jean.

  10/08/2019 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Summit speakers stress collaboration as key to fighting hunger

  Public/private collaboration, innovative partnerships and a relentless effort to find common ground are crucial in efforts to reduce poverty and eliminate hunger, speakers told a summit at Baylor University.

  10/08/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

• Obituary: Doug Dillard

  Samuel Douglas “Doug” Dillard, longtime editorial cartoonist for the Baptist Standard and veteran Christian communicator, died Oct. 5 in Belton. He was 90.

  10/07/2019 - By Ken Camp

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  Summit: Deterrence not the answer to humanitarian crisis

  The Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, drastically reduced the number of asylum-seekers in the United States but did not solve the humanitarian crisis along the Rio Grande, speakers told a Baylor University event.

  10/07/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  SBC leaders hear criticism of abuse response

  Southern Baptist leaders wrestled with questions of procedure and accountability during a gathering on sexual abuse, grappling with how best to address an issue some say the denomination took far too long to address.

  10/07/2019 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Church sexual abuse crisis ‘a gospel issue,’ speakers insist

  The gospel cannot be separated from how the church deals with sexual abuse, Southern Baptist leaders J.D. Greear and Russell Moore told the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s sixth annual national conference.

  10/07/2019 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press