Poker houses that charge a fee violate gambling provisions in the Texas Penal Code, a statewide anti-gambling organization argues in a brief submitted to the state attorney general’s office.

Mission teams from across the state spent their spring break in the Rio Grande Valley, building homes for families involved with the local Family Hope Center.

Shawn Findley was working through a day like any other day at a local fabrication shop. That stopped as quickly as the punch press machine that mangled his hand.

An influx of asylum-seeking immigrants from Central America who began arriving in McAllen four years ago gained brief national attention. But for one Texas Baptist border-area missionary, it launched an ongoing ministry.

Volunteers wash, dry and fold loads of clothes for free for those caught in the gas crisis in Northwest Dallas.

The collision on U.S. Route 77 happened so quickly, few initially understood its impact. But that car wreck 30 years ago caused reverberations changing lives for decades to come.

An Old Testament scholar who grew up in a bilingual and bicultural home challenged a Hardin-Simmons University audience to view familiar Bible stories through a new lens—by seeing its characters as immigrants.

Mace and Jennifer Perez always knew they wanted children. And for Jennifer, adoption had tugged on her heart even when she was an adolescent.

Roca Viva Church in Fort Worth supports North Side High School’s robotics and engineering program. The congregation sees the potential this program has for the students in the area.

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.