Trapped in an unhealthy relationship, LaCheryal Royal didn’t know what to do. If she left, she didn’t know where she and her two young boys would live. She didn’t know how she could support the family. She just knew she had to do something.

Texas executed Christopher Young July 17 for the fatal shooting of a San Antonio convenience store owner over the objections of numerous religious leaders and even the son of the man he killed.

For anyone who ever took a survey after a medical appointment and wondered whether the effort was worthwhile, the answer probably is “no,” says a Baylor University psychologist and researcher.

Baylor University settled a lawsuit brought by a former student athlete who asserted she was drugged and sexually assaulted by multiple football players in 2012.

Three teens survived a rising river at a Bible camp in the Texas Hill Country. Would their faith?

Texas Baptists will assemble July 29-31 at the Arlington Convention Center for a Family Gathering. The Texas Baptist Family Gathering includes joint sessions of the 133rd BGCT annual meeting, the African-American Fellowship Conference and the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas.

The Texas attorney general’s office declined to offer an opinion about the legality of poker houses that charge a fee, citing a pending lawsuit.

To provide Hispanic immigrants a one-stop event where they could gain access to the resources they need, La Puerta Waco, the immigration ministry of First Baptist Church in Waco, sponsored the All Immigrant Resource Fair.

Texas Baptist Men and other Baptist disaster relief teams contributed more than 6,100 volunteer hours during the past two weeks, providing assistance to tornado survivors in Connecticut and flooded residents in the lower Rio Grande Valley.

When Pastor John Finley resigned from his Tennessee church, he told the congregation he had been “involved with two females in inappropriate behavior” but insisted they were adults and there was “no sex.” The women who sent a letter that spurred his resignation have a different story to tell about alleged abuse 37 years ago at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth. (via Star-Telegram)

Multiple Texas Baptist Men disaster relief teams responded to the needs of flooded residents in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Two TBM flood-recovery crews and a team from Arkansas went…

Leonid Regheta, director of Project: Start Refugee Resource Center, a Baptist General Convention of Texas-supported ministry, received the Immigrant Advocate Award at the 7th Annual Immigrant Journey Awards.