by Bob Allen | Aug 8, 2006 | News
The first woman to lead Texas Baptists’ moral-concerns agency says her election is both historic and ironic. “I come to this position as a Christian Baptist woman,” Suzii Paynter, whose election as director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life...
by Laura Seay | Jul 31, 2006 | Opinion
The Baptist General Convention of Texas Christian Life Commission’s Summer Public Policy Institute (SPPI) each year brings students to Austin to share their views, ask difficult questions, and challenge one another to live out their faith more deeply. We started...
by Bob Allen | Feb 12, 2006 | News
Phil Strickland, who worked with Texas Baptists’ ethics, public policy and religious-liberty agency for nearly 40 years, died Feb. 11. Strickland, 64, battled cancer for many years. In recent months it developed into pneumonia. He refused to consider retirement,...
by Bob Allen | Jan 7, 2006 | News
Foy Valentine, leader of the Southern Baptist Convention’s moral-concerns agency for a tumultuous 27 years spanning from the civil-rights movement of the 1960s to the fundamentalist takeover of the denomination in the 1980s, died Saturday after an apparent heart...
