Ken Camp

3 days ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp

NASHVILLE (RNS)—American organized religion is a bit like a scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” It has been on the decline for decades, but churches aren’t dead yet. A new survey from Nashville-based Lifeway Research found 94 percent of Protestant pastors believe their church will still be open in 10 years, with 78 percent strongly agreeing that will be true.

3 days ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp

MARSHALL—East Texas Baptist University’s Baptist Student Ministry recently hosted a prayer tent event, offering students 24 consecutive hours of prayer, reflection, confession and thanksgiving. Inside the prayer tent at East Texas Baptist University, students such as Christian Dews engaged in focus times of prayer and reflection. (Photo / Faith Pratt)The prayer tent was part of ETBU’s initiative to offer students, staff and faculty a time of focused prayer.

1 week ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp

After hours of debate, the Texas House of Representatives approved for the first time in the state’s history a plan to send public funds to private schools, including religious schools. The House voted 85-63 in the wee hours of the morning on April 17 to approve a bill authored by Rep. Brad Buckley, R-Killeen, to establish an education savings account program.  The voucher-like program—Gov.

1 week ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp

The Texas House of Representatives Committee on Corrections heard public testimony April 16 on a bill to buy and install air-conditioning and heating systems in Texas prisons.  HB 3006, authored by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, relates to the purchase and installation of climate-control systems at prison facilities operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Five house bills related to the matter had been filed this session, but none had received a committee hearing until today.

1 week ago | baptiststandard.com | Ken Camp |Bob Smietana

(RNS)—In the 1890s, a pair of British archaeologists began digging in an ancient rubbish heap at the edge of the ruins of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, looking for a glimpse into the city’s past. They’d eventually find tens of thousands of documents, written on papyrus and preserved in the desert for centuries, ranging from official documents to personal letters. Among them was a fragment about 11 inches long and 2 inches wide that detailed shipments of grain on one side.