News Articles by Keith Collier/Southern Baptist Texan

GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) -- Which of the following options would you define as "child abuse"? A) a parent encourages a child to pursue desires that will cause irreparable physical, psychological and emotional damage. B) a parent protects the child from these desires, despite the child's insistence on what's best.

GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) -- International Mission Board missionaries returning from the mission field as part of a voluntary staff reduction could find immediate opportunities to reach ethnic people groups in one of America's most diverse megacities -- Houston. The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention's Executive Board will consider a recommendation in its November meeting to set aside ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) -- The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention's Executive Board has voted to recommend that 100 percent of beyond-budget 2016 Cooperative Program receipts be forwarded to Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries. SBTC messengers will vote on the recommendation during the convention's Nov. 8-10 annual meeting at Champion Forest Baptist Church in Houston.

AUSTIN, Texas (BP) -- In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage, Christians and churches must respond by speaking with confidence, conviction and kindness while also creating biblical community, speakers at the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty's inaugural Equip gathering, said.

ROSHARON, Texas (BP) -- Robed in caps and gowns over their white prison uniforms, 33 inmates in Texas' maximum security Darrington Prison Unit made history May 9 as they received bachelor's degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, becoming the inaugural graduating class of the state's first seminary prison program. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a former member of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, praised God for the commencement.

HOUSTON (BP) -- The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has garnered national attention and raised nearly $100 million dollars in donations in less than a month. But few participants can say they have already been cured of the lethal disease.