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In recent months, Texas Baptists Committed (TBC) has lost – through resignation – the active service of three long-serving members of our Board of Directors. TBC’s accomplishments through the years owe much to the contributions of Michael Bell, Joy Fenner, and Steve Wells. Personally, I have come to consider all three to be dear friends Read more . . .

On Tuesday, New Year’s Day, after serving 2 years as associate executive director of Texas Baptists Committed (TBC), I transitioned to executive director. Our Board voted last month to name me to this post, and I want to express my appreciation to them for their trust and affirmation. They are my partners in this work Read more . . .

Dear Mike Huckabee, Ever since last week’s shootings in Newtown, I’ve read your quotes all over the media; here’s just a sampling of them: “We’ve systematically removed God from our schools.” (UPI) “We’ve created an atmosphere in this country where the only time you want to invoke God’s name is after the tragedy. . . Read more . . .

(NOTE: David R. Currie, Ph.D., is a Baptist minister and owner of Cornerstone Builders in San Angelo, Texas, who retired in 2009 after serving Texas Baptists Committed as executive director for over two decades.) I own over 20 rifles, shotguns, and pistols. We gun owners have insisted on our Second Amendment rights, and we have Read more . . .

Be Near to Us, O God of Love (based on Psalm 36:5-9)   Be near to us, O God of love, all goodness in your sight. In you we find the fount of life, Your radiance springs forth light.   Your steadfast love to heaven extends, Your faithfulness the clouds. The mountains sing your righteousness, the Read more . . .

Thirty-three years ago tonight (funny, it was a Thursday that year, too), I received word that Ron Russey had been killed the night before – Halloween night, 1979 – while on his way from Colorado to lead a family life conference in a church in Texas. Earlier this year, I wrote a post entitled Thank Read more . . .

What is at the heart of our faith in Jesus Christ? That’s really the heart of the matter when it comes to divisions among Baptists. Notice I said “divisions,” not “differences.” Differences are inevitable, Baptist or not. To be human is to be different. Each of us is made in God’s image, yet each of Read more . . .

(Adapted from the TBC Baptist Briefs video series, Texas Baptists Who Made a Difference) Freeman Smalley, according to the Texas State Historical Association, was born in 1790 in Pennsylvania and grew up in Ohio. He was already a Baptist by the time he enlisted in the army and fought in the War of 1812. After the Read more . . .

(Presented by Mike Williams, professor of history, Dallas Baptist University, June 8, during the annual meeting of the Baptist History & Heritage Society in Raleigh, North Carolina. I’ve published it here with his permission.) 17So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.” 18It came about when the priests who carried the ark Read more . . .

Fifty years ago this week, Daddy took me to my first major league baseball game. It seems a little strange, I must admit, to write the words “fifty years ago.” A half-century! It doesn’t seem so long ago that the phrase “fifty years ago” would bring to my mind an image akin to the phrase “back Read more . . .