Churches seek to help lower-income Americans caught in a never-ending loan cycle. While profits for lenders can be substantial, the toll on families can be devastating.

Move beyond failure and reach for seemingly unattainable dreams, such as a world without hunger, TV celebrity woodworker Clint Harp urged participants at the Together at the Table Hunger and Poverty Summit.

Hunger-fighting ministries should not allow lesser goals, such as distributing a prescribed amount of food, to substitute for truly worthy goals of eliminating hunger and helping families emerge from poverty, speakers told a Baylor University summit.

Howard Payne University’s trustees voted to eliminate 10 “underperforming” majors or minors, reconfigure others, and cut 12 full-time faculty positions and one administrative support position.

Confrontation and shaming may produce temporary victories, but shared power built on mutual trust leads to sustainable solutions, the founding executive director of the Texas Hunger Initiative said.

Texas Baptists will join Mexican Baptists in Matamoros Nov. 17 for a Border Summit to discuss ways to respond to the needs along the Rio Grande.

“Dead Man Walking”—the story of the complicated relationship between death row inmate Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Catholic nun Helen Prejean—offers a picture of Christian forgiveness that balances the demands of love and justice, ethicist John Lippitt asserted.

Baylor University launched a $1.1 billion fund-raising campaign, and the university’s board of regents heard a report on a long-term research project to evaluate the impact of a Baylor education on faith formation and spiritual development.

At least 18 tenured faculty at Hardin-Simmons University have expressed interest in a buyout offer, and 22 staff have been offered severance packages, HSU President Eric Bruntmyer announced.

The Big 12 Conference verified Baylor University has implemented recommended policy changes regarding sexual assault, but it fined the school $2 million for damaging the conference’s reputation.

Nicolás López-Merino’s involvement in translating the Old Testament into the Amuzgo language shaped his trajectory and led him to study theology and music at Baptist University of the Américas.

Christians who are called to serve can do more if they are able to encourage others to come alongside them and cooperate. That idea has guided Unión Femenil Misionera of Texas for more than 100 years, UFM Executive Director-Treasurer Bea Mesquias said.