Texas Baptists can be a lot of fun when they come together as they did this week at the Family Gathering in Arlington. As friends reunited, one might have heard Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World:” “I see friends shaking hands, saying, ‘How do you do?’ They’re really saying, ‘I love you.’”

“In an age of misdirection, it is critical we know who defines truth, faith and salvation.”

This week marked my son’s last summer of children’s camp. Next year, he begins the glorious (cough) teenage years. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Despite their mutual need for one another, local Baptist churches simply do not want any outside influence telling them what to do, regardless of how serious the issue is that’s facing them. As a result, they seem to be tugging at the fabric of their congregational and denominational existence.

Christians should be wary when a government seeks to connect our spiritual freedom in Christ with religious freedom in service of government ends.

If you ever forget who you are, you will be like a rootless tree. But if you remember who you are and delight in the Lord who made you, you will be “like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.”

The rule of law and the rule of morality are not synonymous in human systems. It may be legal in the United States to separate children from their parents, but it may not be moral.

“Winds in the east, there’s a mist coming in, like something is brewing, about to begin.” To hear one leader after another speak to the messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention, that something must involve an assault on God’s design for men and women.

In his first editorial for the Baptist Standard, new editor Eric Black reflects on how the Standard is similar to a collection of hubcaps.

Marv Knox signs off after almost 19 years as editor of the Baptist Standard.

If we’re going to be serious about following Jesus, that means doing everything we can—everything—to care for the weak, the poor, the vulnerable.

Texas Baptists and other people of faith must remain vigilant to combat a proposal to create a state education voucher system during the special session of the Legislature.