This summer, Baptist Temple in San Antonio found a way both to strengthen its community ministries and provide hands-on experience for a Baptist University of the Américas student.

Talk to James Bell even for a few minutes, and the subject of “vision” will arise.

The East Texas Baptist University women’s basketball team journeyed to Jamaica recently to “share the joy of the Lord with the people of the island,” a leader of the mission trip said.

Texans concerned about credit access businesses such as payday lenders should make their views known now to members of the state’s Sunset Commission, advocates for fair lending asserted during a recent webinar.

Ella Prichard wrote “Reclaiming Joy” as a practical guide for widows—the book she needed but could not find when her husband died in 2009.

When Abraham Jaquez became president of Baptist University of the Américas one year ago, the school faced financial distress. But now BUA is on track to move forward, he said.

Texas Baptist Men volunteers spent three days learning how to remove an injured person trapped by rubble, handle a fire hose and recognize hazards such as IEDs—skills they almost certainly will not use but that will qualify them to provide disaster relief in Israel.

Biblical justice means restoring what has been broken, not just punishing people who break laws, author and Christian activist Shane Claiborne believes.

Since United States citizens have the right to participate in the nation’s political process, American Christians should be good stewards of that privilege, said Kathryn Freeman, director of public policy of Texas Baptists’ Christian Life Commission.

Pastor Kenneth Jackson of New Light Baptist Church in Lubbock prayed 10 years ago, asking God to give him a vision for community outreach. He found it in John’s Gospel, when he read a conversation between Jesus and Simon Peter.

El problema de no discutir situaciones difíciles en la iglesia es que los ministros y líderes no saben cómo tratarlos cuando estos finalmente suceden en la comunidad. Por esa razón Carlos Valencia, pastor de la Iglesia Victoria en Cristo de Fort Worth, dijo que el suicidio debe de ser un tema del que se hable en la iglesia.

Las Naciones Unidas definen a la familia como un grupo de personas que viven en el mismo hogar, pero la directora general de la Casa Bautista de Publicaciones, Raquel Contreras, dijo el concepto de la familia fue establecido por Dios.