• Letters: Open every church; Do more than pray

  Baptist Standard readers weigh in on Joel Osteen’s post-Hurricane Harvey decisions and Johnnie Moore’s choice to remain on President Trump’s evangelical advisory council.

• Letters: Fault in Charlottesville; Jeffress and Trump; Progressive churches

  Readers sound off on violent protests in Charlottesville, a Dallas pastor, President Trump and progressive churches. 

• Letters: Immigration reform

  This week’s letter to the editor responds to immigration reform.

• Letters: Speaking the truth in love

  This week’s letter to the editor responds to Charles Wade’s guest editorial.

• Letters: Thank you, Marv; We need a mix of churches

  Readers bid farewell to Marv Knox in this week’s letters to the editor.

• Evangelicals and Trump, reading the Standard

  This week’s letters focus on evangelicals’ support for Donald Trump and the observations of a longtime Baptist Standard reader.

• Parents should receive vouchers

  The letter this week challenged a recent editorial opposing the current push in the Texas Legislature for educational vouchers.

• President Trump, powerful words, needed discipleship

  This week’s letters focused on President Donald Trump and on articles by columnists Jake Raabe and Garrett Vickrey

• Matching the budget shortfall; patriotism defined

  Letters this week responded to an article about how much money churches would need to contribute to offset social-welfare cuts in President Trump’s proposed budget and a recent editorial on patriotism.

• Music, SBC and Shariah

  Letters this week addressed a column on songwriting, the Southern Baptist Convention’s resolution decrying the alt-right movement and Shariah law.

• Capital punishment, gay pride, Trump’s budget, actions and consequences

  Letters this week focused on the death penalty, gay pride, the consequences of President Trump’s proposed federal budget and the actions of an Arkansas pastor/judge.

• Bad editorials and good missionaries

  Letters this week aired disagreements with Baptist Standard editorials and praised helping missionaries.