TBYPN Profile-Allan Marshall

Waco, Texas
Allan is the Director of Community Development for the Waco Chamber of Commerce, in Waco, Texas.  A graduate of Baylor University (2007), he attends Highland Baptist Church.
How does your faith impact your work environment? In what ways do you minister to your co-workers?
My faith is the foundation of my entire existence, and it impacts [...]

TBYPN Profile-Ryan Crowe

Fort Worth, Texas
Ryan graduated from Baylor University in 2001, and is a television editor in Fort Worth.  He and his wife, Rebekah, attend University Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
How does your faith impact your work environment? In what ways do you minister to your co-workers?
As far as my faith, it has been an interesting and [...]

TBYPN Profile-Ben DeLeon

Ben, a graduate of the University of Texas (BA, BS 2001; JD 2004), is a lawyer in Austin. First Baptist Church Austin is his church home, where he is also involved as a deacon.
How does your faith impact your work environment? In what ways do you minister to your co-workers?
I live out my [...]

A Young Baptist’s Reason to Remain

By Ken Williams
The Baptist Standard
Five years ago, while studying at Texas A&M University, I took a job as the youth minister of a small Baptist church in the Conroe area north of Houston. Having been born and raised in a large Bible church, I entered the Baptist world relatively oblivious to the situation I was [...]

David Gushee on Baptist experience and the New Baptist Covenant

This blog is about perspectives on being Baptist. Sometimes the best way to do this is for individuals to describe their personal Baptist history… David Gushee has a wonderful column over at Associated Baptist Press entitled, “My Baptist journey to the New Baptist Covenant”. He describes his conversion to Christianity in a Baptist [...]

Let’s Talk About Being Baptist…

I spent a large part of this past fall traveling around Texas to different cities, listening to what young adults had to say about being Baptist. I was encouraged in many ways with what they had to say about being Baptist, about engaging the world for Christ.
I am sold on being Baptist. For [...]

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Today we ‘celebrate’ Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy.  Ethics Daily has a very appropriate column up today by Miguel de la Torre, entitled, “Help Wanted: Black Friend”.  He uses a segment from the Colbert Report to begin a discussion of what it means to have diversity and integration in our churches.
Colbert’s approach to racially and [...]

Young Adults and the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant

I’ve heard some people say that the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant will be sparsely attended by the “younger” generations- ie, those under 40.  The Celebration is on a Wednesday through Friday, so this is not an unreasonable assumption.  However, the assumption is wrong.
From TBYPN we have over 50 young adults traveling to the [...]

Thought worth sharing…

And responding to.  Texas in Africa (participant in TBYPN and blogger extraodinaire) posed an excellent question about the death penalty on her blog.  She cites the story of Charles Chatman, freed after 26 years imprisoned in the state of Texas, once DNA testing showed that he had not in fact committed the rape which he [...]