FEULNER: Century of service for Eagle Scouts Top Boy Scouts blaze path of selfless dedication in our communities Monday, April 16, 2012 By Ed Feulner You find them in all walks of life. They might be playing outfield for the Philadelphia Phillies (Shane Victorino). Or hosting the show “Dirty Jobs” for the Discovery Channel (Mike [...]

Baylor University Research Finds Eagle Scouts Have Positive, Lasting Influence on American Society Nationwide study shows those who attain Scouting’s highest rank enhance youth’s values, ethics, decision making, relationships and personal development WACO, Texas (April 10, 2012) – One hundred years after Arthur Eldred of New York earned the first Eagle Scout Award from the [...]

April 1, 2012, 11:00 AM, invited lecture “Judaism and Health:  New Initiatives at HUC and in the Reform Movement” Temple Beth Sholom 4200 SW Munson Ave. Topeka, KS  66604 CONTACT:  Patty Foster (785-272-6400, or admin@templebethsholomtopeka.org)  

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 [...]

Byron Johnson, author of More God, Less Crime presents:Faith-Based Institutions and the Reduction of Gang Violence: Academic PerspectivesByron Johnson will speak at this very important conference. With youth violence on the national agenda, now is the time for the first ever national conference to address this critical issue and bring together law enforcement executives and [...]

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 [...]

Byron Johnson, author of “More God, Less Crime” Does Religion Contribute to the Common Good? With special guest Byron Johnson, author of “More God, Less Crime” Friday, March 2 Food service begins at 11:30 am Program begins promptly at noon First Baptist Church downtown 108 W. College Avenue Tallahassee, FL (enter from either the Adams [...]

Dr. Thomas S. Kidd, associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor University, will present his lecture “Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and the Contest for Religious Liberty in Revolutionary Virginia”- at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, in Paul W. Powell Chapel of George W. Truett Theological Seminary on the Baylor [...]