Dozens of Texas Baptists—including the executive director of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas—are among more than 100 faith leaders requesting clemency for Melissa Lucio, who is scheduled to be executed April 27.

03/22/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Members of Second Baptist Church in Ranger and a significant number of their neighbors gathered for worship on a parking lot across the street from the fire-gutted remains of their historic church building on March 20.

03/21/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Tyler James, former coach at East Texas Baptist University, was among the nine people killed in a March 15 two-vehicle crash northwest of Midland.

03/17/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Southern Baptist and other pro-life advocates commended the latest setback to a legal challenge to Texas’ prohibition on abortion if fetal cardiac activity can be detected.

03/15/2022 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

Presnall H. Wood, who was editor of the Baptist Standard through one the most tumultuous periods in Southern Baptist history, died March 10 in Dallas. He was 89.

03/12/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Paul Wayne Stripling, who served more than six decades as a Texas Baptist pastor and associational director of missions, died March 4 in Mansfield. He was 86.

03/09/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Relationships matter, and they need to be developed across faith barriers before a crisis occurs, speakers told the Global Faith Forum at NorthWood Church in Keller.

03/08/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Rich Landry, better known as Captain Escape, captivates audiences with illusions, stunts, escapes and humor as he attempts to unlock the mystery of the gospel through his creative evangelistic presentations.

02/28/2022 - By Leann Callaway / Special to the Baptist Standard

Less than five years after Texas Baptists’ Executive Board committed $1.5 million to keep Baptist University of the Américas afloat, BUA President Abe Jaquez reported the school entered its 75th year of operation debt-free.

02/22/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Efforts to restrict teaching about the dangers of racism are “fundamentally anti-Christian,” researcher and author Robert P. Jones told a conference on racial healing.

02/21/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The authors of a pair of bestselling books on gender and evangelicals told a conference on racial healing they discovered how much their subject matter intersects with racial justice issues.

02/21/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Healing racist systems within the church requires everyone—oppressed and oppressors alike—to recognize they are wounded by racism, a speaker told a hybrid conference offered online and at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary.

02/18/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor