Baptists and Baylor renegotiating their relationship
Months after Baylor University decided to allow non-Baptists on its governing board, the Baptist General Convention of Texas has issued its response: We need to talk. The relationship between the two...
View ArticleCharlie Ward, non-Baptists added to HBU board
Basketball star Charlie Ward Jr., Houston builder Tadd Tellepsen and Texon executive Terry Looper became the first non-Baptists trustees for Houston Baptist University when they officially joined the...
View ArticleHouston pastor encourages Baptist women in ministry
A Houston pastor is following her calling to encourage more women to take leadership roles in the church and to change the perception that pastor’s wives need training in homemaking, not ministry. Last...
View ArticleBaylor loses nearly $1 million in Baptist funding
The Baptist General Convention of Texas has cut more than $890,000 of funding to Baylor University in the 2012 budget it adopted at its annual meeting Tuesday. Texas Baptists and Baylor renegotiated...
View ArticleTexas Baptists depict Nativity with ‘Toy Story’ toys, action figures
If you can sit through little-kid narration, you’ll see the green squeaky alien playing the role of the angel Gabriel, Prince Charming as one of the shepherds and the Smurfs as the Wise Men. The...
View ArticleDiverse Houston congregations part of multicultural Baptist movement
The Baptist General Convention of Texas works with multicultural pastors across the state to develop ministry connections with their faraway homelands, through a program called Intercultural Strategic...
View ArticleHouse churches growing along Texas-Mexico border
Violence in Mexico had discouraged some churches from taking mission trips to border cities, but Texas Baptists are now seeing Christians living along the border start their own communities as a result...
View ArticleTexas Baptists calling to end state lotto
A group of Baptists have turned up their fight against the Texas Lottery Commission, arguing that the lotto has proved unsuccessful in raising funds for state education and wrongly exploits the poor....
View ArticleMission trips to Texas-Mexico border plunge due to violence
With escalating violence in Mexico, the number of Baptist mission trips to the Texas-Mexico border have dropped to a fifth of those in 2006 as church groups concerned about safety chose to serve in...
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