Food insecurity in Texas has more than doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic, panelists in the online Texas Food Policy Roundtable noted.

01/20/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Pastor Dwight McKissic of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, a vocal critic of racism in Southern Baptist life, announced he plans to “get off the bus” of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, and potentially the national Southern Baptist Convention.

01/15/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Public health issues and public school funding are among the challenges facing the 87th Texas Legislature.

01/12/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

As rioters seized the U.S. Capitol, Texas Baptists vented on social media, urging prayers for peace, condemning violence and deploring the double standard in how a white mob and peaceful Black protesters have been treated.

01/06/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Texas Baptist Men named David Wells director of its disaster relief ministries effective Jan. 1.

01/04/2021 - By John Hall / Texas Baptist Men

The COVID-19 pandemic safety protocols may have prevented traditional Christmas pageants, but technology makes possible different kinds of meaningful musical expressions, said Chett Haynes, worship leader at First Baptist Church in Waxahachie.

12/22/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Silvia Briones—a hospital chaplain endorsed by the Baptist General Convention of Texas—was among the first people in Texas to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 16.

12/16/2020 - By Bonnie Shaw / Texas Baptist Communications

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Baylor University against a charitable foundation, claiming intervention is “necessary … to protect the public interest in charity.”

12/03/2020 - By George Schroeder / Baptist Press

The Baylor University Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty helped provide more than 38.7 million meals between March and August to more than 270,000 children impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

12/01/2020 - By Eric Eckert & Faith Perkins / Baylor University

A microscopic virus accomplished what an earth-shattering explosion seven years ago could not, force First Baptist Church in West to cancel its Sunday morning worship service.

11/30/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

From Dec. 1 to 24, the Baylor School of Music will offer the “Baylor Family” and others a special daily gift for the holidays—a “Countdown to Christmas” selection of online performances.

11/30/2020 - By Terry Goodrich / Baylor University

Ask Pastor Bob Ray what it takes to serve the same country church in a tiny unincorporated Central Texas community for five and a half decades, and he has a ready answer.

11/24/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor