Because of its past accomplishments, Baptist University of the Américas is “poised to do new things,” Abraham Jaquez said at his inauguration and formal installation as the school’s eighth president.

Public school officials in McKinney are being accused of violating the separation of church and state.

Not everything at Alameda Community Center in west Abilene operates quite the way Director Erica Currie envisions, and she couldn’t be happier. When neighbors take ownership of programs and projects at the center, she knows she has done her job right.

Christians in Texas joined believers around the United States in reflecting on the life and legacy of evangelist Billy Graham, who died Feb. 21.

Two officials with Texas Baptists’ Christian Life Commission joined more than 100 other evangelical leaders nationally in calling for prayers and action after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 dead and dozens injured.

Kirby Minnick, a communications major at Dallas Baptist University and popular YouTube personality, urged young women at the Shine Girls’ Conference to “live a blessed life, not an easy life.”

The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board wants Texas Baptist churches that financially support the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to send those contributions directly to the Fellowship—not to the BGCT.

Texas Baptist Men will work with Israel’s Emergency Volunteer Project in disaster preparedness.

Hispanic first-generation college students find support and guidance at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Baptist Student Ministry.

Hardin-Simmons University named Robert Ellis dean of the Logsdon School of Theology.

Churches cannot heal people who experience grief, but like a cast provides support to allow a broken bone to mend properly, congregations can offer support as God gradually knits together lives fractured by loss, a Baylor University social work professor said.

Tamiko Jones, executive director-treasurer of Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas, urged women in ministry to “fan the flame” God placed within them and follow God’s calling.