By hitching his wagon to Trump’s neon star, Starr is making the same old mistake for the same old reason.
Baylor’s decision on LGBTQ inclusion: Will my alma mater become invested or irrelevant?
If Baylor University doesn’t begin to recognize and respond in Christian love to the diversity of its students we not only have failed to measure up to the model of Jesus; we are identifying with the rigid textual literalism he faced 2,000 years ago.
No jail time for Baylor frat president accused of sexual assault prompts outrage
A lenient plea deal for a former Baylor University fraternity president accused of rape returned the spotlight to a Baptist school still dealing with fallout from a high-profile sexual assault scandal involving its athletics department that led to a leadership change.
Religion students petition Baylor to become sanctuary campus
A group of doctoral students in Baylor University’s religion department recently launched an online petition asking the administration to join the growing “sanctuary campus” movement, appealing to the private Baptist school’s Christian identity. Co-authored by six members of Baylor’s Graduate…
Great pilgrimages of the world converge on university campus
Each year, more than 330 million people around the world journey to sacred places to perform acts of devotion, express faith or seek enlightenment or healing. From Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, visitors to Baylor University’s Mayborn Museum Complex in…
Learning from students and their term papers
I began grading term papers in the fall of 1972, for undergraduates taking courses with C. Allyn Russell, Professor of Religion at Boston University. He paid me $2 an hour, or thereabouts, during our three-year run. Each semester thereof, Russell,…