The Baptist Standard Publishing board elected pastor and professor Eric Black as executive director and publisher, effective June 11.

Bill Ellis will retire as president of Howard Payne University May 31 and assume a new role as the university’s chancellor.

Baylor University’s newly approved academic strategic plan includes a foundational goal to develop a community known for its “unambiguously Christian educational environment.”

Robert E. “Bob” Dixon, who led Texas Baptist Men three decades and pioneered disaster relief ministry among Southern Baptists, died May 10. He was 90.

Texas Baptists offered pastors and other church leaders reminders about biblical stewardship, including education in personal and church budgeting, at a one-day Giving Your Money Purpose retreat at Houston Baptist University.

Two Waco churches and the local Baptist association collaborated to reach Hispanic families through a Cinco de Mayo celebration.

Viento Fuerte Church in Waco has changed to meet the changing needs of its neighborhood.

Regardless of a teenager’s background or future hope, speakers at Congreso 2018 urged students to choose to serve Christ.

During three decades at Procter Baptist Church in Port Arthur, Pastor Rick Erwin has experienced fire and flood—the former figurative and the latter literal.

Joanna Jespersen, minister to children and families at Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church in Dallas, will nominate Jason Burden, pastor of First Baptist Church in Nederland, for first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

First Baptist Church in Plano is mourning the loss of a couple killed in an April 23 car accident and seeking to minister to seven children left without their parents.

A dozen pastors known for their consistently stellar performances in the pulpit made Baylor University’s list of the most effective preachers in the English-speaking world.