BGCT elects Hardage as executive director

January 26, 2012

DALLAS — The Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) Executive Board elected David Hardage as executive director, effective Feb. 1. Hardage — a veteran Texas

FBC Guin couple continue missions trips in their mid 80s

January 12, 2012

Gilbert and Marguerite Butler are in their late 80s, but they certainly don’t act like it. Not only are the Butlers extremely active in their

SBC, BWA leaders meet for 1st time since 2004

January 5, 2012

Leaders of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) traveled to Nashville on Dec. 19 to meet with leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), a founding

Highlights from the World of Religion

January 5, 2012

Alabama’s April 27 tornadoes left behind what has been called an “unprecedented path of destruction,” killing nearly 250 people and leaving thousands more homeless. Yet

Alleged peeping evangelist charged in third town

January 5, 2012

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A traveling Southern Baptist evangelist and former camp pastor for LifeWay Christian Resources faces new charges of video voyeurism in a third

Former youth minister focus of abuse investigation

January 5, 2012

CYPRESS, Texas — A Texas youth minister already charged with statutory rape of a 16-year-old was arrested Dec. 14 for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages

LifeWay pulls Bible benefiting Susan G. Komen

December 22, 2011

LifeWay Christian Resources is pulling all copies of a special pink-covered Bible that partially benefited Susan G. Komen for the Cure because some of Komen’s