James Q. Wilson’s prophecy By Scott Walter | 25 Mar 2012 | 219 views Most social scientists slight ordinary men and women in favor of statistics and grand theories. Not James Q. Wilson. A prominent political scientist who recently died, Wilson cared enough about the ordinary Joe to ponder his life and his community keenly. [...]

The Stations of the Cross Service March 30, 2012 – 300 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University Dear Friends, Carlos Colón, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion Resident Scholar, and I will be leading services with The Stations of the Cross this coming Friday in Armstrong Browning at 3:00 and then again [...]

Notes from the Global Church Mar 08, 2012 by Philip Jenkins In his poem “Little Gid­ding,” T. S. Eliot warned his readers not to take too intellectual an approach to places of worship; instead, he urged, “You are here to kneel/ Where prayer has been valid.” Yet around the world many believers wrestle with the [...]

If nothing else comes out of President Obama’s plan to force employers, including faith-based organizations, to provide free pregnancy prevention and termination coverage for employees, let’s hope it’s the realization that government is not a benevolent, godly force, but a potential threat to both religious and personal freedom. It is highly unlikely that the Patient [...]

March 9, 2012 By Kayla Reeves Reporter Baylor researchers are bringing biblical history to life in Vatican City this Easter season. Dr. Scott Carroll, research professor in manuscript studies and biblical tradition at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, is the director of a 5,000-square-foot exhibit of rare religious artifacts at the Vatican. The [...]

March/April 2012  In Victorian times, an Anglican rector was once traveling in southern Italy. Mistaking him for a Catholic priest, a group of peasants begged him to give spiritual succor to a famous bandit who lay dying in a nearby inn. The rector offered what prayer and consolation he could, as the grateful bandit acknowledged [...]

Feb. 27, 2012 Follow us on Twitter:@BaylorUMediaCom This Easter, in a collaboration between the Vatican and the world’s largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts — assembled by Baylor research professor Dr. Scott Carroll — Roman Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Orthodox Christians will come together during Lenten season in Rome to celebrate their [...]

February 23, 2012 By Joel Wells | Guest columnists Another entertainer died prematurely due to substance abuse, this time the beloved Whitney Houston. I always imagined that she was exactly like the role she played in “The Preachers Wife,” and I believe that is how the public wanted to see her. Unfortunately, that is not [...]

From the perspective of one who values freedom of choice, individualism, and the market, the proliferation of new translations and paraphrases of the Bible must seem, on the whole, a good thing. From a perspective that places a greater value on theological probity, spiritual understanding in the laity, and coherence in the witness of the [...]

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