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Christians May Dance No Longer: the Global Crisis in Religious Freedom – Thomas F. Farr Lecture 23 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
Monday, September 30, 2013 Location: TBD Time: TBD Thomas F. Farr is Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown ...
Sarah Pulliam Bailey 23 Aug 2013 | 12:38 am
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER (you don’t have to log in to register) 3:30 p.m. Cox Lecture Hall Armstrong Browning Library “People of faith have always been among the pionee...
What Egypt’s history suggests about its nightmarish future by Philip Jenkins 21 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm
ABC Religion and Ethics 21 Aug 2013 Few Western observers predicted the scale of the recent military crackdown in Egypt, or the nation’s sudden lurch to something like civil war. The next question tr...
Faith-based re-entry saves tax dollars 16 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
Associated Baptist Press /Jeff Brumley —A Baylor University study shows that faith-based prisoner re-entry programs — at least in one case — help ex-cons, society and taxpayers. The study analyzed th...
Baylor Mourns Passing of Visiting Distinguished Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain 13 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm
Aug. 13, 2013 Contact: Lori Fogleman, (254) 710-6275 WACO, Texas (Aug. 13, 2013) – Baylor University is mourning the passing of Jean Bethke Elshtain, Ph.D., one of America’s foremost public intell.....
Faith-based Re-entry Program for Prisoners Saves Money, Reduces Recidivism, Baylor Study Finds 8 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
WACO, Texas (Aug. 8, 2013) — A faith-based prisoner re-entry program in Minnesota has saved an estimated $3 million by reducing recidivism, according to a Baylor University study published in the Inte...
“Does the Family Matter? The Crisis of Faith in Church and Culture” 8 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
Event date: April 7, 2014 Time: 9am to 12 noon Free lunch provided Co-sponsors: Institute for Studies of Religion, the Kyle Lake Center for Effective Preaching, and the Center for Ministry Effect...
Study finds health benefit to Jewish prayer 7 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm
Researcher Jeff Levin finds that Jews may experience physical and mental health benefits from attending synagogue and praying regularly. The findings mirror studies done on Christians and other people...
Faith & Freedom in the Lone Star State: Exploring the Religious History of Texas 1 Aug 2013 | 01:57 am
September 19, 2013- 7:00 – 9:30 pm Lee Lockwood Library and Museum, 2801 W. Waco Dr., Waco, TX J. Gordon Melton, Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Baylor University ‘There’s S....
Germany’s Gomorrah and Ours By Philip Jenkins 31 Jul 2013 | 06:34 pm
July 27, 2013 Seventy years ago this month, the fires of Gomorrah fell on Germany. For seven nights, Britain’s Royal Air Force launched night-time raids of unprecedented savagery against Germany’s s...
