May 11, 2013 The Taxman vs. the Tea Party By ROSS DOUTHAT AS a taxpayer and a conservative who hopes to remain on good terms with the Internal Revenue Service for many April 15ths to come, I don’t want to speculate too freely about the motives of the “low level” I.R.S. employees who decided to [...]

April 22, 2013 By Philip Jenkins Although there are plenty of candidates for this title, the most pernicious item that has ever appeared on the Internet may be Inspire, the online English-language magazine circulated by al Qaeda. Part of its goal is to instruct individual would-be jihadis how to cause the maximum carnage without access [...]

TODAY, Tuesday, April 23, 2013, for the first in a series of three Annual Charles E. Test, M.D. Distinguished Lectures, presented by the James Madison Program.  Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago, and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies [...]

April 22, 2013 WACO, Texas (April 22, 2013) — Francis J. Beckwith, Ph.D., a professor of philosophy at Baylor University and Resident Scholar in Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, will travel to Rome in mid-June to speak at The Celebration of Evangelium Vitae: Faithful to Life conference, sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for [...]

Friday, April 19, 2013 History While neighbors in nearby West, Texas, reeled from a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, scholars gathered in Waco to discuss the lasting impact of the siege and raid on the Branch Davidian compound 20 years ago. By Ken Camp Twenty years after a 51-day siege at the Mount Carmel compound near [...]

Posted: Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:24 pm  Waco Tribune | Updated: 7:31 am, Mon Apr 15, 2013. By J.B. SMITH jbsmith@wacotrib.com Their apocalypse came and went on a Monday afternoon, 
20 years ago this week. By the time David Koresh and 75 followers met their fiery end on a prairie near Waco on April 19, [...]

April 10, 2013 Follow us on Twitter:@BaylorUMediaCom Contact: Terry Goodrich,(254) 710-3321 WACO, Texas (April 10, 2013) — With cheating rampant — and growing — in American high schools and colleges, researchers at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) will undertake a pilot study investigating the connection between various virtues and measures of academic [...]

Reagan Roy  Online Editor Wednesday, April 10, 2013 – 3:42pm Waco, TX (KWKT) — With cheating rampant, and growing, in American high schools and colleges, researchers at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) will undertake a pilot study investigating the connection between various virtues and measures of academic honesty among college students aspiring [...]

April 4, 2013 Follow us on Twitter:@BaylorUMediaCom Contact: Terry Goodrich,(254) 710-3321 WACO, Texas (April 4, 2013) — Baylor University religion scholar Philip Jenkins, Ph.D., will be among lecturers at the German Bishops Conference in Rome, which will be focused upon new religious movements that are challenges for the Roman Catholic Church. The international conference will [...]

Go to Church, Live Longer Posted on April 1, 2013 by Jerry Newcombe The quest to live longer is an old one. Around this time, we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first known European discovering Florida—Ponce de Leon. This was at Easter time, during which in his native Spain, the cathedrals were filled with [...]