Eighteen families filed a class-action lawsuit Dec. 2 to stop the display of a prescribed version of the Ten Commandments in all classrooms of every Texas school district not already involved in related litigation or subject to an injunction.
You might be already thinking about goals for the upcoming new year even though we’re a few weeks away from 2026, and I assume that some of those goals are related to your spiritual walk.
“My goal in life, my calling, is to know Christ and to make Him known. Everything that I do is situated under that purpose,” said Miss Georgia 2025 Audrey Kittila, a member of First Baptist Church Alpharetta.
Samantha Fulnecky’s final grade won’t be negatively affected by her Christian views on a controversial issue. The University of Oklahoma student recently complained she was discriminated against after receiving a zero on her essay that expressed her Christian views on gender.
African Christian leaders attending a conference with faith-based health organizations in late November called for countries on the continent to do more to replace U.S. Agency for International Development funds cut by the Trump administration.
Americans — including millions who identify as Christians — hold strikingly conflicted beliefs about sin, salvation and the afterlife, according to a new report from George Barna.
The wife of 44-year-old SIM USA missionary Beau Shroyer, who was fatally stabbed in 2024, in Lubango, Angola — near where the couple and their five children lived — has reportedly been convicted and sentenced to 24 years in an Angolan prison.
Nigeria’s president responded to a surge in violence and abductions by declaring a nationwide security emergency, ordering the massive recruitment and deployment of law enforcement officers and armed forces personnel.
Look out “brain rot,” this year’s word of the year is “rage bait,” according to Oxford University Press.
Baptist Standard Managing Editor Ken Camp will retire Dec. 31, bringing to a close a decades-long era of reporting on Texas Baptists.
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