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  Dolls enable Christians inside, outside of prison to join in missions

  Handmade dolls provided a means for Baptist women in South Texas and incarcerated women in Central Texas to share the gospel and bring joy to children in Mexico and a low-income Hispanic neighborhood in West Dallas.

  02/18/2011 - By admin

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  Baptist disaster relief pioneer reflects on lessons learned

  As far back as the late 1980s, friends told John LaNoue he should write a book about his experiences ministering in farflung places from North Korea to Iran. He retired from the Texas Baptist Men staff in 1999, fully intending to write. But he didn’t publish Walking with God in Broken Places until a few months ago.

  02/18/2011 - By admin

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  National debt a new hot issue for evangelicals

  As Washington debates President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget, the immorality of the deficit has become the hot topic on right-leaning Christian blogs, radio programs and political mailings.

  02/18/2011 - By admin

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  World Vision wins on ‘Jeopardy!’

  A Christian relief organization won big in a man-versus-machine contest pitting a computer against two human champions on the TV game show Jeopardy!

  02/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Texas-based sports movie retells story of the Prodigal Son

  Writer/producer/director Andrew Stevens found the inspiration for his latest film Breaking the Press during a Sunday morning church service.

  02/17/2011 - By admin

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  Memories, lessons recalled from historic bombed church

  Carolyn McKinstry, 63, has been a part of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church since she was two years old, and barely avoided being killed when the Ku Klux Klan bombed the church in 1963. She recounts her experiences in a new book.

  02/17/2011 - By admin

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  Gospel writers harmonize; they don’t sing the melody of Jesus in unison

  Reading Scripture well is like listening to a chorus, Richard Hays, dean of Duke Divinity School, explained during the 2011 Winter Pastors’ School at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary.

  02/17/2011 - By admin

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  Tom Elliff nominated to lead International Mission Board

  Tom Elliff, a longtime Oklahoma pastor and former missionary, has been nominated to be president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board.

  02/17/2011 - By Marv Knox

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  Church membership trends unchanged

  Pentecostals, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses gained ground, mainline churches continued to decline and growth in the largest two denominations — Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists — remained stagnant, according to new statistics compiled by the National Council of Churches.

  02/16/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baylor’s Baptist Center designed to preserve, celebrate heritage

  The Baptist Studies Center for Research at Baylor University, approved by the Baylor board of regents at their February meeting, will preserve the 400-year global heritage of Baptists through a virtual depository of important Baptist documents, photographs, books and other collections.

  02/14/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baylor regents vote to allow non-Baptists on board (Updated)

  The governing body of Baylor University, the world’s largest Baptist academic institution, now may include Christians who are not Baptists.

  02/11/2011 - By Administrator

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  Looking to find your center of creativity? Unplug

  I’ve long thought that the image of God in which we are made is creativity. A request from my 8-year-old caused me to wonder if our fascination with gadgets and technology is keeping us from discovering our creative center.

  02/11/2011 - By admin