Contact: Terry Goodrich, Assistant Director of Media Communications, (254) 710-3321 WACO, Texas (Feb. 8, 2013) – Who would have known evangelism and oil had so many similarities? Darren Dochuk, Ph.D., associate professor in the humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, will explore these similarities in a lecture presented by Baylor University’s Institute for Studies [...]

Feb. 7, 2013 Baylor Media CommunicationsContact: Terry Goodrich,(254) 710-3321 WACO, Texas (Feb. 7, 2013) — Byron Johnson, Ph.D., director of Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, has been named Big Brother of the Year Lone Star, an award recognizing outstanding volunteers who provide exceptional and life-changing impact through one-on-one mentoring to children who face [...]

By Brooke BaileyReporter Baylor students translate ancient Austrian text An undergraduate research team is piloting a study on an Austrian manuscript dated from the 1380s. Baylor students are the first to study this document. “No one’s ever done it,” Lake Jackson senior Amy Freeman said. Freeman has been working on the Speculum Humanae Salvation since [...]

By Brooke Bailey Reporter, Baylor Lariat Researchers from Edinburgh and Oxford are traveling to Baylor to give insight about papyrology, the study of papyrus manuscripts. Dr. Larry Hurtado, professor of New Testament language, literature and theology at the University of Edinburgh, and Dr. Dirk Obbink from Christ Church College Oxford will be talking to students [...]

Posted in Faith Matters, Matthew Brown on January 18, 2013 12:20 pm Matthew Brown Three weeks into 2013 and temptations to blow off those New Year’s resolutions are bearing down. What kind of people will give in and why? What are people’s greatest temptations and favorite sins? Who cares to change and how can they [...]

January 2, 2013 This past Christmas, I was surprised to find my thoughts turning to the Qur’an. That connection may sound strange — Islam and Christmas? — but it makes a lot more sense when we recall just how thoroughly soaked in Christian thought was the world in which early Islam emerged. Older memories survive [...]

The Theology of Jonathan Edwards  wins 2013 Christianity Today Book Award in the field of  Theology / Ethics Michael J. McClymond and Gerald R. McDermott (Oxford University Press) “This truly impressive volume combines two virtues that rarely coexist. It is accessibly deep. Many books cover their subject matter in an accessible manner, and many others [...]

Research about the relationship between religious involvement and personal and population health has burgeoned in recent years. But something is missing – even in the best of scholarly work, says Jeff Levin, Ph.D., University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health Director in the Program on Religion and Population Health in Baylor University’s Institute for Studies [...]

By Kathryn Jean Lopez December 6, 2012 12:45 P.M.  Despite the look of things culturally and otherwise, Americans remain a religious people. That’s what Gallup president Frank Newhouse is noting this week, and it’s the subject of a new book by Rodney Stark, a Baylor University professor.  “America is an unusually religious nation,” the Stark explains [...]

Family Commitment Blended with Strong Religion Dampens Civic Participation, Baylor Researcher Finds Nov. 15, 2012 Follow us on Twitter:@BaylorUMediaCom Contact: Terry Goodrich, Assistant Director of Media Communications, (254) 710-3321 WACO, Texas (Nov. 15, 2012) — Blending religion with familism — a strong commitment to lifelong marriage and childbearing — dampens secular civic participation, according to [...]