Baylor scientist Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been invited to become a Fellow of the prestigious International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), a multidisciplinary learned society based at Cambridge University. Founded in 2002, ISSR is the world’s preeminent scholarly organization devoted to the intersection of science and religion. The Society has only about 200 […]

Religious freedom can be a divisive issue, but it’s important. My group is renewing our commitment to the First Amendment, by signing this charter. Oliver Thomas and Charles C. Haynes, Opinion contributors Published 8:00 a.m. ET Nov. 29, 2018 In the turbulent 1960s, John Courtney Murray famously reminded Americans that the Constitution begins with “we […]

Terry Mattingly, Columnist Published 9:00 a.m. ET Oct. 13, 2018 One of the most famous tales of World War I began when a fantasy fiction writer wrote a story in 1914 about British soldiers crying for help while facing overwhelming German forces near Mons, in France. Their prayers summoned heavenly hosts of archers attacking the […]

In early August, Spokane felt on the verge of apocalypse. A hundred-and-six-degree wind buffeted the valley. The air was choked with ash and smoke from two duelling forest fires. Yet, in the windowless hotel conference room where I was to meet the controversial pastor Franklin Graham, the frigid air made it possible to ignore impending […]