Jan. 3, 2012 Follow us on Twitter:@BaylorUMediaCom Humble people are more likely to offer time to someone in need than arrogant people are, according to findings by Baylor University researchers published online in The Journal of Positive Psychology. “The findings are surprising because in nearly 30 years of research on helping behavior, very few studies [...]

The Tocqueville Forum is pleased to announce that Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain will receive the fifth annual Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. Award for Teaching and Humane Letters. This award, generously supported by Michael Maibach – a former student of Father Schall – and The Maibach Fund, has been created to honor individuals who exemplify [...]

Evening Conversation with Byron Johnson More God, Less Crime When: Wednesday, November 2 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Where: The University Club 1135 Sixteenth Street, NW Washington, DC  20036 We are delighted to invite you to an Evening Conversation with author and professor Byron Johnson. Please join us on November 2 at the University Club [...]

Elshtain joins Baylor institute. Jean Bethke Elshtain, recent recipient of the Democracy Service Medal from the National Endowment for Democracy, has joined the Baylor University faculty as visiting distinguished professor of religion and public life at Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion. Elshtain—a prolific author—also serves as the Laura Spelman Rockefeller professor of social and [...]

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WIA REPORT WEBSITE Jean Bethke Elshtain was named Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion and Public Life at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. She holds the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Chair in Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Professor Elshtain taught at [...]

Criminal cases involving faith healing raise questions about how best to respect patients’ religion while providing the best care. By Alicia Gallegos, amednews staff. Posted Sept. 19, 2011. Salem, Ore., pediatrician James Lace, MD, will never forget the severely asthmatic patient who could scarcely speak a sentence without gasping for air. The 15-year-old girl had [...]

Dr. Sarah-Jane Murray to translate 14th century Ovide moralisé into a ‘living language’ for the first time WACO, Texas (Sept. 1, 2011) – Sarah-Jane Murray, associate professor in the Great Texts Program within the Honors College at Baylor University and Resident Scholar at Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, has received a major grant from [...]

Overcoming the Obstacles to Faith-Based Approaches to Crime by Byron Johnson August 3, 2011 Prejudices of secular and religious groups alike stand in the way of successful crime reduction efforts. We now have data confirming what objective and open-minded observers already knew: that religious commitment and faith-based approaches, as well as the transformative power of [...]

The following article is located at: http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2011/julaug/revolutionaryfaith.html Revolutionary Faith A religious history of the American Revolution. Matt Reynolds | posted 6/24/2011 For all the heated debate over the Founders’ faith—or lack of faith—the American Revolution is often treated as exclusively a political affair, overlooking how thoroughly a range of religious convictions, yearnings, and forebodings suffused [...]

The following article is located at: http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2011/mayjun/pulpfictions.html Pulp Fictions Jim Thompson and the sins of the father. Philip Jenkins | posted 4/27/2011 One of last year’s most controversial films was The Killer Inside Me, an adaptation of Jim Thompson’s 1952 novel. The film closely followed Thompson’s original in depicting an atrocious series of murders from [...]