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Around the State: UMHB students participate in global missions
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (493+ words) Baptist Standard Around the State: UMHB students participate in global missions Staff / Baptist Standard Eighty students, faculty, staff, and alumni from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor engaged in global outreach in nine separate mission teams during the summer. Teams served…...
Jim Spivey reflects on 25 years of military chaplaincy since 9/11
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (741+ words) A portion of the Pentagon Memorial remembering those killed at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, in Arlington, Va. (Bigstock) Kendall Lyons / Baptist Standard For Jim Spivey, the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks bring back memories of an unexpected return to…...
West appointed to ambassador role in BWA
1+ week, 3+ day ago (214+ words) Kendall Lyons / Baptist Standard Ralph West, pastor and founder of The Church Without Walls in Houston, has been appointed ambassador for preaching and multiplying congregations for the Baptist World Alliance. Ambassadors work under the guidance of the BWA general secretary…...
Visa change clears way for Brazilian pastor’s Texas return
1+ week, 3+ day ago (722+ words) Diana Chandler / Baptist Press GORDON, Texas (BP)—Albert Oliveira is back in the pulpit of his Texas pastorate after having voluntarily returned to his Brazilian homeland in late 2025 before his visa expired. Previously, he and his family were required to…...
Editorial: My response to critique and question
1+ week, 3+ day ago (961+ words) Eric Black / Editor What ministry roles are open to women? Southern Baptists have spent the last several years debating and deciding on this question. The Baptist Standard has covered that debate and the corresponding votes in our news columns. We…...
Commentary: Critique of ‘God made a way’
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1105+ words) Recently, I was speaking with two young men who will be facing an ordination council within the next week. I told them that in my lifetime, certain hot-button issues have come to the forefront, and I had to wrestle with…...
Wendell Berry, writer, farmer, prophet, dies at 92
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1019+ words) | Source: RELIGION NEWS SERVICE Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service The Baltimore meeting hall was packed in 2013 when, at the annual American Academy of Religion conference, Wendell Berry received the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. The Kentucky…...
Around the State: WBU to host groundbreaking for prayer garden
1+ week, 4+ day ago (188+ words) Baptist Standard Around the State: WBU to host groundbreaking for prayer garden Staff / Baptist Standard Wayland Baptist University is holding a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Wayland Prayer Garden at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 2, at the Brown Family Conference Center. The garden,…...
Voices: A response to Guarneri’s ‘A time for rebirth’
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1115+ words) Associational and convention participation is very important to me. For nearly 20 years in ministry, I have seen firsthand the benefits of churches cooperating for the advancement of God’s kingdom. I believe deeply in the Cooperative Program and in what Texas…...
Violence reaches Christian refuge in Sudan
1+ week, 4+ day ago (992+ words) | Source: RELIGION NEWS SERVICE Fredrick Nzwili / Religion News Service NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS)—A region in Sudan once a safe haven for refugees and where nearly half the population is Christian has become another scene of deadly violence, as the country’s…...