Baylor’s Texas Hunger Initiative receives $7 million in grants to fight...
For more than a decade, Baylor’s Texas Hunger Initiative (THI) has worked to eradicate hunger in Texas, and to do so through a model that can be replicated elsewhere. This fall, THI has received more...
View ArticleCan we disagree on important issues and still get along? These BU guests say...
One’s a leading conservative voice, the other a leading progressive intellectual. They disagree on virtually any issue you can think of — but they agree on this: When seeking the truth, we must be...
View ArticleBaylor alumna’s book, ‘Faith in American Public Life,’ offers both hope and...
Baylor alumna Melissa Rogers (BA ’88) has spent her entire professional life at the intersection of religion and public life. After earning Phi Beta Kappa honors and her bachelor’s in history at...
View ArticleCounting down to the new year with a look back at Baylor’s 2019
Another year gone?! As the world counts down the final moments of 2019, join us as we look back on the past year with a countdown of our own: 10: The number of balloons in the nation’s biggest...
View ArticleBaylor profs pen new book on Christianity’s impact on teaching
The mission of Baylor University is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment within a caring community. With a mission...
View Article15 podcasts for Baylor Bears on the go
Whether it’s due to one’s learning style or schedule, for some people, reading news online just doesn’t work. They prefer an audible format — books on tape, podcasts, etc. If that sounds like you —...
View ArticleFaith-centered tattoos the focus of one Baylor prof’s research
From sailors to motorcycle gangs, tattoos have long been a hallmark of rebellion, and a subtle indicator of someone outside the mainstream. But that stigma has eroded significantly in recent years,...
View ArticleBaylor & Christianity Today partner to discuss Christian leadership amidst...
Since the start of the COVID-19 public health crisis, Baylor leadership — from President Livingstone on down — has worked hard to keep the Baylor Family informed and educated about how the university...
View ArticleBaylor alumna leading the fight against human trafficking
Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, with more than 40 million victims worldwide — and its happening in communities all across the globe, including right here in...
View ArticleBaylor addiction center creating a model for combining religion & recovery
For decades, many have struggled with the idea that faith plays a part in addiction recovery. At Baylor’s Beauchamp Addiction Recovery Center (BARC), religion and recovery go hand in hand. “Instead of...
View Article‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’: Baylor student’s powerful performance highlights...
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” — hymn #351 in the Baptist Hymnal — was written in 1900 and first performed at a celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. A prayer of thanksgiving for faithfulness and...
View ArticleAs Christians, how should we address issues of race and injustice?
Earlier this month, President Livingstone announced a series of action steps that Baylor would take to “elevate the difficult, uncomfortable but important conversations … regarding race, privilege,...
View ArticleBaylor prof earns international honor for lifetime of New Testament studies
Even if she had never received “one of the most significant recognitions ever bestowed upon a Baylor faculty member,” Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventa’s contributions to New Testament scholarship and...
View Article#BU24’s unique class hymn offers timely reassurance of God’s goodness
While it’s common for incoming freshmen to be welcomed to college by campus leaders, it’s not so common for that encouragement to come in the form of a hymn — but that’s what we do at Baylor. Since...
View ArticleBaylor prof studies Christianity’s growth around the globe
What does Christianity look like around the world? How does it spread to new peoples and new regions? Those are the sort of broad questions that Dr. Carlos Cardoza-Orlandi, Baylor’s Frederick E. Roach...
View Article‘The Bible story is our story’: What Baylor Chapel looks like this fall
Chapel has been a tradition at Baylor literally since the university’s beginning — but over the years, it has taken a lot of different forms. It was something every student took every year until the...
View ArticleNew Baylor partnership with Compassion aims to help kids in poverty worldwide
Compassion International has long worked to release children around the world from poverty. Chances are good you’ve seen a photo of a sponsored child on the fridge of a friend or family member;...
View ArticleMeet Baylor’s nationally recognized expert on multicultural Biblical...
In over a quarter-century of teaching scripture, Dr. Stephen Reid has learned many times over that most people read the Bible through the lens of their own experience. An ordained minister and...
View ArticleTruett Seminary’s National Preaching Conference to stream online this week
For more than a decade, Truett Seminary’s Kyle Lake Center for Effective Preaching has worked to help seminary students become more effective preachers of God’s word. Last year, the Center took things...
View ArticleCelebrating a very merry (and very online) Christmas at Baylor in 2020
With students heading home for the semester at Thanksgiving this year, many wondered — what would become of Christmas on 5th Street in 2020? Rather than cancel the beloved tradition, Student...
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