Pastor Fred "Chip" Luter III started as a street preacher in the 9th Ward before building Franklin Avenue Baptist Church into ...

The candidates for U.S. Senate talk about faith as they launch a two-month campaign going into the March primary. | Opinion ...

Sending people to the nations is what we do as Southern Baptists. We go to those who have yet to hear the Gospel. This year ...

Betty Lou Beets’ shocking case of murdered husbands and buried bodies is revisited in Killer Grannies: Granny’s Wishing Well ...

Every fall, we publish our Best of Dallas issue, the Observer’s biggest print edition of the year. In those pages, we ...

The year 2025 was marked by historic firsts, social movements and major political and economic events. From the election of ...

Arkansas lost many well-known figures in 2025, including former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, FedEx founder Fred Smith and Razorbacks ...

First Baptist Church in Bullard held two candlelight services on Christmas Eve, bringing the community together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Hundreds of ...

Peggy Beard Stinson, of Allen, and formerly of Paris, passed away on Friday, December 26, 2025, at Medical City in Plano, ...

Gospel music icon Richard Smallwood died Tuesday at age 77 from complications related to kidney failure, a representative ...

Rev. Charles Coverdale preached his last sermon as senior pastor at First Baptist Church Sunday, closing a 43-year chapter ...