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 [...]

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 [...]

Can you imagine suddenly discovering a trove of major new works by one of the greatest Christian authors of the last century, a worthy companion of C. S Lewis and T. S. Eliot? In a sense, we actually can do this, and we don’t even need to go excavating for manuscripts lost in an attic [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

March 22, 2013 Follow us on Twitter: @BaylorUMediaCom Media contact: Terry Goodrich, (254) 710-3321 WACO, Texas (March 22, 2013) – Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion will host Paul Harvey, Ph.D., for a lecture titled, “The Battle for Jesus During the Civil War.” The lecture will take place at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 25, at [...]

March 19, 2013   By Philip Jenkins When the cardinals of the Roman Catholic church considered the qualifications of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to serve as Pope, they found much to admire: his leadership experience, his intellect, his passionate but nuanced views on social justice issues. I doubt if they paid much attention to what might [...]

March 16, 2013 Raging on St. Patrick’s Day By Philip Jenkins Among the many millions who celebrate Irishness every March 17, scarcely any wonder for a second whether there is any historical substance to the figure of St. Patrick, any more than to a host of other medieval wonderworkers. Treating such a tale as serious [...]