Texas Southern University has announced a $400,000 scholarship fund honoring the late Rev. Dr. William A. Lawson, a beloved civil rights leader and founder of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. Made ...

The Southern Baptist Convention failed to pass a motion to prohibit member churches from employing women in any pastor role, ...

Texas Southern University (TSU) is pleased to announce the establishment of the William A. Lawson Endowment, a scholarship ...

Bethesda Missionary Baptist Church in Marshall recently honored its scholars in a special Graduation Recognition Sunday ...

At the time, Creech was the pastor at Dobson's family church, University Baptist in Houston, and remembers Dobson well, according to a tribute Creech wrote about the young man. "He invested ...

Paul Pressler, a former Texas judge who altered the Southern Baptist Convention twice, first when he led a fundamentalist ...

Pressler was a symbol for both the Religious Right’s marriage with Republican politics and that alliance’s vulnerability to ...

Second Baptist already was a large church by most standards ... of the Second Baptist campus of Houston Theological Seminary — a satellite of Houston Christian University’s seminary. The most recent ...

Family, friends and community members entered Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston on Thursday ... against segregation at Texas Southern University. He ensured women held prominent titles ...

HOUSTON (KIAH ... at the time was located on Texas Southern University’s campus. Fast forward to the present day, Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church has been thriving for nearly 62 years ...

William Lawson, a long-time civil rights advocate and founder of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston ... and supporting the brave Texas Southern University students during the sit-ins ...