OPINIONS

Speaking for God above the noise

Jerry Pierce

Editor

The hopes and fears of all the years

Gary Ledbetter

Editor in Chief

God shows his favor in West Texas

Jim Richards

Executive Director

read all opinions

BLOG

••• November 20, 2013 •••

The Supreme Court's Tuesday decision that keeps in place the Texas law passed last summer restricting abortions may be read in detail online. The concurring opinion, authored by J [...]

••• October 2, 2013 •••

OK folks, I know you hear numerous calls for churches to mobilize their people to vote but sometimes we need to be ashamed that we are so uninvolved. Of course I know that our chur [...]

••• September 24, 2013 •••

Former NFL running back and ESPN commentator Craig James of Celina, who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2012, is working with Plano-based Liberty Institute in asking Fox [...]

••• August 9, 2013 •••

A San Antonio proposal that some say would essentially ban from city government or city contract work anyone who holds a tradition view on sexuality will likely come before the San [...]

...more

IMB missionaries to Philippines share Lottie Offering importance

By: Texan Staff & IMB News Sources | December 4th, 2013

Jeff and Kim Cruse, International Mission Board missionaries to the Philippines for 17 years, are onsite in a small community just outside the town of Valencia. In cooperation with Baptist Global Response, Jeff and Kim are doing careful surveys of where the worst damage is and what is needed both immediately and for the longer term for these victims of the typhoon, many of whom have lost everythin [...]

Supreme Court to hear landmark Hobby Lobby case

By: From staff & wire reports | November 26th, 2013

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday (Nov. 26) agreed to take up Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a landmark case addressing the constitutional rights of businesses to operate without violating their religious convictions. The high court accepted the federal government’s appeal of a June decision by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals that a federal mandate [...]

ETS paper revisits two debates in early years of SBC inerrancy struggle

By: Rob Collingsworth | November 25th, 2013

For the last two decades of the 20th century, Southern Baptists were embroiled in a debate that centered on a relatively new and radically divisive theological term: inerrancy. One group (generally termed “moderates”) pushed back against accusations made by the other group (alternatively termed “conservatives” by themselves and “fundamentalists” by their detract [...]

Supreme Court: Texas abortion law may stay in effect

By: Jerry Pierce, Editor | November 20th, 2013

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 5-4 that a Texas law regulating abortion may stay in effect pending a ruling by a federal appeals court early next year. At issue was a provision of House Bill 2, passed last summer, requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within a 30-miles radius of the procedure. The law was to go into effect on Oct. 29, bu [...]

Typhoon relief team ventures into villages off the main road

By: Caroline Anderson, IMB | November 20th, 2013

CEBU, Philippines—Social media and news programs around the world are filled with images of relief teams making their entrances into Filipino communities devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, but hundreds more villages in extremely isolated areas have yet to see any relief vehicles at all. These villages are tucked away in northern Cebu’s rolling hills, down winding, bumping roads [...]

LATEST NEWS

The Earth’s Age: A Q&A with Kurt Wise

November 19th, 2013 By: Texan Staff

Kurt Wise is professor of biology at Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, Ga. He earned his Ph.D. in [...]

Does it matter where we came from?

November 18th, 2013 By: Gary Ledbetter | Editor in Chief

The question of origins has far-reaching impact on things less theoretical. In fact, some things happe [...]

Richards to college: Pastor role an inexplicable call

November 17th, 2013 By: Tammi Reed Ledbetter | Managing Editor

DALLAS—Preaching to a Nov. 7 chapel audience at Criswell College, Jim Richards said the biblical [...]

Church outreach marks nearly 600 salvation decisions, more than 100 baptisms

November 14th, 2013 By: Texan Staff

BURLESON—In the summer of 2010, God burdened the heart of Pastor Charles Stewart about two matte [...]

MORE NEWS

Liberty University somber after fatal shooting of Texas student

November 20th, 2013 / By: Baptist Press

LYNCHBURG, Va.—As police continue their investigation into reasons behind the fatal shooting of a Liberty University student Tuesday, Nov. 19, a spokesman for the school called the mood on campus somber and prayerful. “We dedicated a portion of this morning’s weekly convocation service (Nov. 20) to remembering all of those affected by this tragedy,” said Johnnie Moor [...]

So what about dinosaurs and the Bible?

November 19th, 2013 / By: Jerry Pierce | Editor

The latest science claims the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago—a million years earlier than previously thought—resulting from a combination of a colossal meteor hitting the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico and fallout from volcanoes, according to a study reported by the journal Science last February.But how does this jibe with Scripture? There are two prevailing approaches amo [...]

SEBTS hosts dialogue among YEC & OEC proponents

November 19th, 2013 / By: Bonnie Pritchett

WAKE FOREST, N.C.—The tone and tenor of a recent debate between proponents of old- and young-earth creationism was diplomatic, but the underlying subtext of the presentations made at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary intimated that the other side was wrong in their assumptions and nothing less than the communication of the gospel was at stake. Representatives on both sides of the is [...]

Resources for further study of origins

November 19th, 2013 / By: Texan Staff

SALVO magazine - Published by The Fellowship of St. James (non-denominational)—an organization deeply engaged in apologetics for students in high schools and colleges—SALVO dedicates a portion of each quarterly issue to Christians’ engagement with science. A great gift for the thoughtful student. Salvomag.com.Answers in GenesisAn extensive website, Answersingenesis.org, and AiG&r [...]