By Junpeng Zhang | ReporterDr. Jonathan Tran was selected as the winner among Baylor senior professors of the 2016-17 academic year for the Collins Outstanding Professor Award. As a recipient, Tran gave a lecture titled “My Life With Students: Wittgensteinian Thoughts on Baylor Students” on Thursday in Kayser Auditorium. Tran teaches theology and ethics as an associate professor of religion and serves as faculty steward of the Honors Residential College. His publications include “The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory: Time and Eternity in the Far Country” and “Foucault and Theology,” along with numerous articles about Christian theology and ethics,…
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By Junpeng Zhang | ReporterThe Armstrong Browning Library hosted the annual celebration of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to commemorate their birthdays and honor their life’s work on Friday. This year, Dr. Andrew Tate was invited to feature a lecture at the library. A special musical presentation was brought by Marlin tenor Justin Kroll, a member of A Cappella Choir and facilities assistant in Armstrong Browning Library along with collaborative pianist Sara Steele at the beginning of the celebration.After the prayer led by Dr. Lesa Scholl, vice principal of Emmanuel College, University of Queensland in Australia, Dr. Joshua King, Margarett…
Dr. Paul Stob came to Castellaw Communications Center to present “Black Hands Push Back: Reclaiming the Rhetoric of Booker T. Washington” on Wednesday. Stob is an associate professor of communication studies at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Martin Medhurst, distinguished professor of rhetoric and communication and professor of political science at Baylor, introduced Stob at the beginning of the lecture.”Anyone interested in America’s history of racial segregation and the post-Reconstruction world learned a lot from Dr. Stob’s lecture. He is one of our nation’s leading scholars of the progressive era,” Medhurst said. “He set forth a unique interpretation of one of the…
By Junpeng Zhang | Reporter27th Baylor head football coach, Matt Rhule, was invited to do an interview and discussion with John and Cynthia White at George W. Truett Theological Seminary during the Paul Powell Chapel on Tuesday. Rhule came to Waco after four seasons as the head coach at Temple University, where he led the Owls to consecutive 10-win seasons in 2015 and 2016 and the 2016 American Athletic Conference championship.”Dr Todd Still, Dean of Truett Seminary, invited Coach Rhule to our weekly chapel service in order to formally introduce Coach Rhule to the Truett Seminary family and so that…
People have their own preferences on topics such as foods, clothes, games and words. Just as they have these preferences, people also have words they always use when they talk, such as a “catchphrase” or “signature phrase.” Today, young Americans use the word “like” many times when they are trying to describe something or express their feelings. I guess you could say “like” is their catchphrase.Maybe it’s a phenomenon, and picking up phrases or changing slang happens randomly. From my perspective, I don’t think it is completely random. In other words, there must be something specific that makes people change…
By Junpeng Zhang | ReporterDr. Dante Wright came to George W. Truett Theological Seminary for a community gathering for worship on Feb. 28. Wright was invited to preach by Dr. Todd D. Still, a William M. Hinson professor of Christian scriptures at George W. Truett Theological Seminary. “It was a hopeful and Biblical call for us to be grateful people,” Todd said. “Dr. Wright’s style is energetic and contagious. Those who hear him speak are inspired to less what they used to be than what they ought to be.”Wright serves as the senior pastor of Sweet Home Baptist Church, also…
Dr. Sarah C. Williams spoke about “Outward Signs and Inward Graces: The Place of Popular Religion in the Age of Urbanization and Empire.” The lecture, which was sponsored by the history department, the Institution for Faith and Learning, and the Armstrong Browning Library took place in the Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall on Friday afternoon. Students and professors from the history and English departments extended a warm welcome to her.Williams is a research professor of history of Christianity from Regent College, located in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a specialist in the field of nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and cultural…
By Junpeng Zhang | Reporter Students gathered together Friday night at Alexander Reading Hall to celebrate the kick-off party of The Mug, the student voice and official publication run by the BIC Leadership Council. At the event, there was a contest for best coffee mug and Lake Jackson sophomore Kaitlyn Havlik won the mug contest with her fancy camera lens mug. “What we are doing tonight is having a board game night. We have it every year. It is a way to bring BIC kids who might haven’t already met, giving them opportunities to have fun, and play the board…
The actions of former President Barack Obama before he was relieved of his White House duties and the words spoken by President Donald Trump during his campaign are astonishingly similar — they both have beneficial interests in the area surrounding the South China Sea. In 2014, the conflict between China and Japan over an island near Taiwan named Diaoyu Island became a severe political and international issue. In December of 2016, Trump challenged the One China Policy via Twitter. The conflicts above were caused by foreign interests in the South China Sea. To prevent further issues which could cause a…
Eight Baylor students in the music department competed in the Baylor Concerto Competion on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 at Jones Concert Hall. There were two separate sessions, and three students performed in the morning, the rest in the afternoon. Friendswood senior, Brian Bires, won. “We listened to how well they prepared, whether they understand the composition, whether they understand the style of playing for that particular piece. For instance, how to play a Prokofiev concerto. We judge them from that standpoint,” Harry Elzinga, professor emeritus of music history said. Elzinga taught at Baylor from 1985 to 2003. He was also…
