CLICK HERE To View the Video of this Lecture ATTENDANCE IS FREE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER November 30, 2011 Baylor University 3:30 p.m. Kayser Auditorium In 1996 Rodney Stark published The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History. It was successful far beyond his most optimistic imaginings. Distinguished historians forgave him for being a sociologist [...]

Nov. 28, 2011 Follow us on Twitter: @BaylorUMediaCom   Dr. Rodney Stark, Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and co-director of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, will present a lecture, “Doing History A Second Time Around,” at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Kayser Auditorium of the Hankamer School of Business on the [...]

Less than a year to go until the first presidential election in which Tea Party activists, who speak of the ideals of the American Revolution, will play a large role—but what were those ideals? Basic Books has just published Thomas Kidd’s Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots, a biography of the man known as “the voice [...]

2nd Opinion: The last acceptable prejudice? By Byron Johnson Published: November 11, 2011 In early May 1990, after turning in final grades for the spring semester, my departmental chair walked into my office with a big smile on his face and handed me a letter from the university president. It was a non-renewal letter. I [...]

Family Research Council recently hosted criminologist Byron Johnson, the author of More God, Less Crime, to discuss his research on religion’s effects on criminal behavior. In his presentation, he told the audience that “as religiosity goes up, the tendency to commit crime or delinquent acts goes down.” (To watch Johnson’s presentation, click here.) According to [...]

by Jerry PattengaleNovember 2011 Wisdom often peeks into our lives unannounced, while at other times we plan curricula to transmit its tenets. Participants in Baylor University’s recent conference on wisdom (more than 400 registrants) experienced both aspects of the journey to a wiser academy—and wiser alumni. Entitled “Educating for Wisdom in the 21st-Century University” and [...]

By Grace Gaddy   GO TO LARIAT ARTICLE Reporter Killing entire races of people, slaughtering men, women and children and showing no mercy: such topics don’t often make their way into the typical Bible bedtime story, but according to Dr. Philip Jenkins, these darker and often bloodier passages cannot be ignored. Jenkins, a distinguished senior fellow [...]

Fri, Nov. 04 2011 Go to The Christian Post Article WASHINGTON – It’s rare to hear about street hardened criminals in a prison sneaking around to share the Gospel with fellow inmates. But it happened at a faith-based prison in Houston, Texas. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO OF THE PROGRAM Criminologist Byron R. Johnson, [...]

At first glance this is an empirical question. I have argued that Americans who believe that God has a plan for America tend to strongly advocate free-market economics. I have also argued that economic views are difficult to predict solely on the basis of religious belief (see Chapter 5 in America’s Four Gods). And I [...]