For Hispanic Baptist churches across Texas, immigration enforcement is becoming more than a national policy debate. Pastors and congregations say they are seeing the effects firsthand as some members ...

East Texas Baptist University welcomed families and friends to campus Sept. 18-20 for its annual Family Weekend, providing opportunities for students and their loved ones to experience life on the ...

I used to think retirement was the finish line. That’s what I heard from the older men at church, anyway. You work hard. Pay the bills. Raise the kids. Survive meetings that could’ve (and should’ve) ...

The BGCT is a complex institution. Those who want to maintain it have no choice but to deal with the complexity. The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board meeting this week was the most ...

On Tuesday, Sept. 22, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to install air conditioning in all state prison facilities by Dec. 31, 2029. As of Sept. 1, ...

As I read Christianity Today’s recent article on the problems associated with The Passion Translation, a contemporary, evangelical proverb kept coming to mind: “God doesn’t call the qualified; he ...

In 1777 amid the Revolutionary War, Baptist minister Isaac Backus believed too many people had forgotten who Roger Williams was, what he had done for democracy and religious liberty, and what a newly ...

Lesson Four in the Connect360 unit “And Then We Came to Romans: A Study of Paul’s ‘Weighty and Strong’ Letter” focuses on Romans 5:1-8. Comedians emphasize timing is crucial. Delivering the punchline ...

NASHVILLE (BP)—In line with its “limited but essential function,” the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee took steps to reduce its budget and considered messengers’ motions from the 2026 ...