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  Baptist Briefs: Church limits crowds for Carter Sunday school class

  Well-wishers flocking to Plains, Ga., to hear Jimmy Carter teach Sunday school after being diagnosed with cancer are overwhelming the relatively small Maranatha Baptist Church.

  09/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Texas Tidbits: RA campers fight hunger

  More than 140 boys and young men attending Royal Ambassadors/Challengers camp at Latham Springs Baptist Camp filled food packets with vitamins, protein and vegetables to provide 10,000 meals for hungry people.

  09/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Around the State: HPU sorority gets top award

  Howard Payne University’s Delta Upsilon chapter of the national Tau Beta Sigma sorority received the Grace and A. Frank Martin Outstanding Chapter Award, marking it as the top chapter in the nation.

  09/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

• On the Move: Jason Bowen

  Jason Bowen to First Baptist Church in Trenton, Tenn., as pastor from Cross Pointe Baptist Church in Texarkana.

  09/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Prepare for the ‘post-everything’ age, church leaders say

  Writer and church coach says the term ‘post-everything’ sums up the variety of challenges facing the church today, from post-modernity to post-Christianity to post-denominationalism.

  09/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  TBM volunteers provide disaster relief in Midwest

  Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers served throughout August in the storm-damaged and flood-ravaged Midwest.

  09/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Philadelphia lawyers to investigate Baylor’s response to sexual assault

  UPDATED: Baylor University hired a Philadelphia law firm to conduct an independent external investigation of how the school handled a football player’s sexual assault of a female student-athlete.

  09/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Some pastors want tax dollars for church schools, others advocate public education

  Updated: One way to fix the troubled public-school system in Texas is making education funds available to church-based private schools, a group of pastors including Ed Young of Second Baptist Church in Houston and Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas claimed in a brief to the Supreme Court of Texas.

  09/01/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Maciel nominee for BGCT president

  René Maciel, president of Baptist University of the Américas, will be nominated for president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

  09/01/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Southern Baptists to cut missionary force by 15 percent

  The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board will offer incentives for voluntary early retirement in an attempt to cut between 600 and 800 jobs from the agency’s missionary force and staff.

  08/31/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  External counsel to investigate sexual violence at Baylor

  Baylor University will hire “outside counsel to investigate thoroughly” sexual violence on the Waco campus and create a staff position to provide “oversight of all student-athlete behavior,” Baylor President Ken Starr announced Aug. 28.

  08/29/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Around the State: FBC Richardson sets groundbreaking

  First Baptist Church in Richardson will hold a groundbreaking ceremony Sept. 13 at 10:30 a.m. to mark the beginning of the first phase of a building plan.

  08/28/2015 - By John Rutledge