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 [...]

By Linda Nguyen A&E Editor Baylor is home to renowned researchers and scholars. Scattered around the university, they produce research and papers, many of which define their fields. One such scholar is Dr. Jeff Levin, University Professor of epidemiology and population health. His research looks at how religion affects public health and he is considered [...]

May 1, 2013 Tsarnaev Conspiracy Central By Philip Jenkins In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, some members of the Tsarnaev family resolutely refused to accept the charges against the two brothers, and hinted at dark official conspiracies. I know exactly why they are so suspicious. Please understand, I do not personally accept any allegations [...]

By Kevin ColeWORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER A Baylor University professor noted for his studies on the role of religion in the social behavior of young people likes the way Omaha officials and community organizers are battling juvenile crime. Byron Johnson began a two-day visit to the city on Sunday when he appeared on a panel at [...]

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 [...]

April 15, 2013 Follow us on Twitter:@BaylorUMediaCom Contact: Terry Goodrich,(254) 710-3321 WACO, Texas (April 15, 2013) — Clinical psychologist Kenneth I. Pargament, Ph.D., aleading figure in exploring the connection between spirituality and health, will lecture at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, at Kayser Auditorium in the Hankamer School of Business, 1428 S. Fifth St. CLICK [...]

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, [...]