Texas CLC Elects First Woman Director

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...

Texas CLC Leader Dies

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,...

Texas Baptists Offer Tsunami Relief

Volunteers from Texas Baptist Men worked with local officials in eastern Sri Lanka to develop a way to quickly clean wells contaminated by salt water, according to dispatches from tsunami-stricken areas reported by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Texas...