• Letters: Southern Baptist churches, women and sexual abuse

  Baptist Standard readers respond to Southern Baptists dealing with race, women leading in the church and the sexual abuse crisis in SBC churches.

• Letters: Waco church voluntarily cuts ties with BGCT

  A Baptist Standard reader provides a first-person perspective on the decision by Waco’s University Baptist Church to allow same-sex marriages.

• Letters: Does the Baptist Standard have an angle?

  A Baptist Standard reader suggests an angle in response to Editor Eric Black’s op-ed answering the question of whether or not the Baptist Standard has an angle or agenda.

• Letters: Waco church to allow same-sex weddings

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to news of the decision by University Baptist Church in Waco regarding same-sex marriages.

• Letters: When theft is not a crime: A Christian approach to poverty

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to Myles Werntz’s op-ed examining an ethical question about the theft of basic necessities.

• Letters: The necessity of theology and doctrine for ministry

  Mathew St. John, the pastor of First Baptist Church in Anson, Texas, responds to Joshua Sharp’s Voices column about the need for theology and doctrine in ministry.

• Letters: Sexual abuse: A time to mourn, a time to repent

  A Baptist Standard reader replies to Ali Corona’s Voices column responding to a Houston Chronicle report on the extent of sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches.

• Letters: Heaven’s wall, a border wall, and our call

  A Baptist Standard reader replies to Eric Black’s editorial, which examines a biblical justification for the border wall currently at the center of the partial government shutdown of the United States.

• Letters: True Love Waits pioneer defends sexual purity movement

  A Baptist Standard reader replies to a story about True Love Waits, wondering if there is a better way to talk about sex in the church.

• Letters: Life is like a flag at half-staff

  A Baptist Standard reader replies to Eric Black’s editorial that makes a comparison between former President George H.W. Bush and current President Trump.

• Letters: How do you choose a candidate?

  A Baptist Standard reader replies to Eric Black’s editorial about how people decide for which candidate to vote.

• Letters: Where are the women among Texas Baptists?

  A Baptist Standard reader replies to Grace Mitchell’s op-ed about the inclusion of women in leadership among Texas Baptists.