Union Baptist Association is investing in the lives of Houston-area Hispanic pastors, their wives and church leaders through its Transformative Leaders (Lideres Transformadores) training program.

Meeting in a tent near the wreckage of their former building on Oct. 27, members of Primera Iglesia Bautista de Dallas gathered to worship and accept the challenges ahead.

Christians have the opportunity to speak much-needed truth in a polarized society because they offer a vision informed by the reality of the resurrected Christ, ethicist Vincent Bacote told an audience at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary.

Respect for human dignity can provide a cross-cultural consensus to safeguard religious freedom, a keynote speaker told a Dallas-Fort Worth area conference.

When the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas elected Tony Miranda as president in June, they followed the adage, “If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.”

In three days last week, Southwestern Seminary President Greenway offered a public, if somewhat cryptic, apology for a president’s firing 25 years ago, welcomed another former president to preach in chapel and endorsed a statement defending two women professors on the faculty.

A tornado with winds up to 140 miles per hour, one of several that ripped through North Texas on Oct. 20, blasted northeast Dallas County. TBM volunteers were working in the area at daybreak the following morning.

When God protected her family and spared their home from a tornado that destroyed houses up and down her street, Amanda Pritchard knew what God wanted her, and her church, to do.

If young lives are not shaped by caring Christians who build relationships with students, those lives will have character formed by technology and society at large, a leadership expert told a Texas Baptist conference.

In the immediate aftermath of a tornado that swept through North Texas on Oct. 20, leaving behind a 17-mile path of destruction, Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers offered rapid response and Christian compassion.

When severe weather swept through North Texas Oct. 20, a tornado destroyed the Primera Iglesia Bautista de Dallas building in northwest Dallas.

Geographic distance separates three Hispanic Texas Baptist churches established in the 19th century, but a shared commitment to making necessary adjustments to reach people for Christ unites the congregations in Laredo, San Antonio and El Paso.