Ken Camp

Long lines quickly formed at each microphone on the floor of the convention center hall as pastors and other messengers prepared to present arguments for and against the motion calling on the BGCT to affirm the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message. (Photo/ Ken Camp)

Rolando Rodriguez, director of Texas Baptists en Español, speaks to a gathering of Hispanic church leaders prior to Texas Baptists' annual meeting in Waco. (Photo / Texas Baptists Communications)

At its annual luncheon during Texas Baptists’ annual meeting, the Texas Baptist Missions Foundation celebrated the work of Baptist Student Ministries around the state and offered updates on efforts to construct a new BSM building at Baylor University. (Photo / Texas Baptists)

Megan Trotter (center), Baptist Student Ministry director at Tarleton State University, and Manny Silva (left), college pastor at Renew Church in Waco, participated in a conference on “Engaging Gen Z with the Gospel” with facilitator Jordan Villanueva, instructor in Christian studies at Howard Payne University. (Photo / Ken Camp)

PHILADELPHIA (BP)—The Bible protects against what the U.S. surgeon general has termed an “epidemic of loneliness” as harmful to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, the American Bible Society said in releasing its latest chapter of the 2024 State of the Bible.

Tony Campolo, a Christian minister and author, died Nov. 19, 2024, at age 89. (Photo by Bradley Siefert/Flickr/BY-NC-SA 3.0 via RNS)

Mike Melcher of Plainview, former director of advancement at Wayland Baptist University, died Nov. 4 in Dallas. He was 72.

The Allan B. Polunsky Unit is a maximum-security facility near Livingston that houses Texas Death Row. (Photo / Ken Camp)

Beth Campbell (left) and her friends Phyllis Brower (center) and Connie Hamilton (right) launched Overcomers at First Baptist Church in Grand Prairie, a ministry encourages widows to overcome fear, anxiety, loneliness, doubt, adversity and worries about how to provide for themselves. (WMU Photo)

Over the objections of religious groups, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that would enable the secretary of the Treasury to rescind the tax-exempt status of any nonprofits the secretary concludes are “terrorist-supporting organizations.”