I’ve had plenty of opportunity to get to know Robert Darden and Stephen Newby. Bob is a distinguished writer and teacher, and in our youth, we lived a few houses apart on 30th Street in Waco’s Castle Heights neighborhood. With…
Through it all: Baylor profs celebrate influence of Andrae Crouch
It has been 10 years since the death of Andraé Crouch. It has taken Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby nine of those years to create their biography on the life of groundbreaking gospel singer and composer. Those years…
Baylor’s Black Gospel Archive and Listening Center now open to the public
Black Gospel music is a foundational ingredient in every popular music genre in America, and with the opening last week of Baylor University’s Black Gospel Archive and Listening Center, music that has long been accessible only to music scholars and…