A 12 year old girl once found her 6 month old baby sister Hannah dead in her crib. The girl was Rachel Craig, an alumna from 2001.
The loss of her sister, along with other losses of infants Craig had heard about from friends planted a seed for a ministry in Craig’s heart.
In 2011, this seed grew to fruition in the form of Cradled.
A passionate sport is in the middle of its playoffs in America and nobody seems to notice. While flying under the radar, the Major League Soccer Playoffs have been filled with raucous crowds and thrilling action on the pitch.
With the knockout rounds and conference semifinals over, it’s now down to the Western Conference Championship between the Portland Timbers and Real Salt Lake. In the Eastern Conference, the last two teams remaining are Sporting Kansas City and the Houston Dynamo.
In response to Danny Huizinga’s Nov. 12 column titled “Some conservatives amiss on death penalty,” Conservatives Concerned About The Death Penalty is just a regular anti-death penalty group calling itself conservative.
It uses the same deceptions as all of the regular anti-death penalty groups because they are one.
Science and the media don’t always see eye to eye.
I’m lucky enough to understand both sides of the whole media versus research battle. Scientists don’t always like journalists because they assert that journalists never get it right. Journalists are frustrated with scientists because they can’t seem to explain their research in an understandable way half the time, and the other half of the time, the scientists won’t talk to journalists. Maybe this is just a student journalist problem.
Baylor Football is off to an historic 8-0 start and it doesn’t look like Baylor is ready to slow down any time soon. Despite the uncertainty around the Big 12, Baylor Head Coach Art Briles’ position at Baylor is cemented with a 10-year contract extension, which was approved by the regents Wednesday night.
The numbers of the new contract have not been disclosed, but under the previous deal, Briles was set to average $3.5 annually. In 2012, Briles made $2.4 million, which is a significant raise from the $1.5 million he made in 2010.
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In the latest edition of Don’t Feed the Bears, Greg DeVries and Daniel Hill recap Baylor’s 41-12 win over Oklahoma. With Texas Tech losing three straight games, will the Bears be vulnerable to a let down game in Arlington? The guys both think the Bears will win big over the Red Raiders. With Stanford beating Oregon and with Baylor now at No. 5 in the BCS Standings, what needs to happen for the Bears to climb in the standings? The guys also break down Week 10 in the NFL and preview the Kansas City vs. Denver showdown in Week 11. Follow the show on Twitter @dftbpodcast and follow Baylor Lariat Sports on Twitter @BULariatSports. Also, follow the hosts on Twitter @GregDeVries3000 and @D_Hill80.
Film & Digital Media and Phi Beta Kappa are screening Robert Rodriguez’s debut film “El Mariachi” (1992) at 7 p.m. today in Castellaw 101. The film screening is open to the public and free of charge.
According to IMDb, El Mariachi is an action and crime drama that follows a traveling mariachi who is “mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.” The film is 81 minutes long.
A bloody head and cracked wakeboard are only small drawbacks the Baylor wakeboarding team has faced.
The club has become highly competitive at the national level in the past few years and has shown that Baylor has very talented wakeboarders, said Austin senior Reagan Strickland, the president of Baylor Wake.
Nearly three weeks ago, Kimberly Minnick’s parents received a letter from her health insurance company.
“My mom called me to say my health insurance was ending and that I’d need to get a physical before the end of the year,” Minnick said.
According to the 24-year-old Truett Seminary student, Celtic Insurance Co. was going out of business.
Minnick said she’s lost her insurance providers before. “It’s the third time that’s happened to me,” she said.
American Airlines and US Airways reached a deal with the government that lets the two form the world’s biggest airline and opens up more room at key U.S. airports for low-cost carriers.
The settlement announced Tuesday — if approved by a federal judge — would end a fight with the U.S. Justice Department and head off a courtroom showdown later this month.
President Ken Starr, along with the Kenya Women’s Leadership team, will be sponsoring the Starrs’ St. Kizito’s Christmas Project.
Over the past three years a small group of women have traveled to Africa to spend time in the slums of Kenya helping out with a small school called St. Kizito’s.
For the first time the Baylor community has the opportunity to bring Christmas to that school in Kenya. Students, faculty, staff or members of the community can buy a Christmas stocking for $27 plus $2 for shipping costs and the money will go toward buying gifts for a particular child at the school.
Baylor basketball opened its home season Tuesday afternoon at the Ferrell Center with a hard-fought 66-64 win over SEC opponent South Carolina. With the showcase win in front of a national television ESPN audience, Baylor (2-0) has won eight straight home openers in the Scott Drew era.
Both Baylor and South Carolina started hot right out of the gates. The two teams came out shooting 15-for-17 from the field, including 3-for-3 from the three-point line. South Carolina jumped out to a 17-19 lead with 12:58 in the first half.
It’s a new year and a new team for the Baylor Lady Bears after losing six seniors – center Brittney Griner, guard Kimetria Hayden, guard Jordan Madden, forward Brooklyn Pope, forward Destiny Williams and student assistant Shanay Washington.
With the Griner era over, it’s up to the new seniors to lead the talented underclassmen to their potential. It will be a big task for the post players, but after practicing against Griner, they are up to the challenge.
7 p.m. today Room 101 Castellaw Communications Center Sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and the film and digital media department, acclaimed filmmaker Robert Rodriguez’s debut movie as a film student at UT Austin will be shown. Admission is free and open to the public. For more details, see the full story by Ada Zhang at BaylorLariat.com.
3:30 p.m. Thursday Kayser Auditorium Hankamer School of Business Baylor journalism grad and former Lariat editor Charles Poe brings a film surrounding the events of Pres. John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the people who witnessed it firsthand. Admission is free.
3-5:30 p.m. Monday 7-8:30 p.m. Nov. 22 Alexander Reading Room 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 23 Fifth floor Cashion Academic Center
From Aslan’s roar to reading letters from Uncle Screwtape to explaining theology to the common man, C.S. Lewis continues to make a huge impact on children, students and adults alike.
Even 50 years after his death, Lewis is still a popular author for his fiction as well as his theological and philosophical writings.
“The sweaty bodies pressed against one another as they spoke in tongues and danced in euphoria while they waited for the world to end. But one little girl in the back of the tabernacle just watched through the sawdust air.”
Donna Johnson, author of “Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir,” will discuss her journey to self-discovery on the “Sawdust Trail” during the American Studies Association of Texas Conference at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Kayser Auditorium of the Hankamer School of Business.
Freedom of religion is again at the forefront of a Supreme Court case. On Nov. 6, justices heard oral arguments in Town of Greece v. Galloway, No. 12-696.
Two residents, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, in the town of Greece, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester, filed a lawsuit against the town complaining that they and other residents that attend council meetings are a captive audience because the council opens every meeting in prayer. They contend that because nearly every prayer offered in an 11-year span were overtly Christian, that the town was endorsing Christianity, which is viewed as a violation of the First Amendment’s establishment clause.
I turn on the news to see what people are saying about Obamacare, and it’s almost always the same thing every time. Old men are arguing, not respectively debating or discussing, over Obamacare on television. Who can really blame them at this point?
It’s a complex issue. There’s no doubt that finding the best way to provide citizens health care is difficult to a find a consensus on. But what I do know as a fact is that President Barack Obama did not fulfill his pledge of, “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan. Period.”
In response to David Trower’s Nov. 12 column “Sex offenders need stronger punishments,” I feel disappointed that Trower would write something that relies on thoroughly debunked stereotypes, faulty statistics and emotional appeals, yet fails to even acknowledge or address the root causes of the issue of sexual abuse.
Trower’s viewpoint is typical of those who adhere to the “uncontrollable monster” myth of the American Sex Offender. It is a persistent myth dating back to the late 1800s and the serial killings of Jack the Ripper and HH Holmes. (In fact, sex offenders were referred to as “Rippers” during that era). Today, the “stereotypical sex offender” is still the shady and dirty old man in the wrinkly trench coat, who drives a rusty van and lures children with candy and puppies.
By Reubin Turner Assistant City Editor Baylor annouced Tuesday that a naming gift of $1.5 million was donated by Paul and Carol McClinton of Waco for a 350-seat auditorium in the new Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation. According to a press release by the university, the auditorium will be utilized for classes that require tiered seating, student organizational meetings and a space to host special lectures and events. The new building will be named the McClinton Family Auditorium, after the McClinton family. “In our current building, we really don’t have the ability to host events with a…
With talks of rebuilding surrounding No. 10 Baylor, the Lady Bears played with something prove en route to a 110-55 win over the Grambling State Lady Tigers on Saturday at the Ferrell Center. Baylor’s 55-point victory was the largest margin of victory in a season opener under head coach Kim Mulkey.
The Lady Bears balanced offense had plenty of scorers, but it was senior guard Odyssey Sims who stole the show with her 28-point, four-assist, four-rebound and five-steal performance. Four other Lady Bears scored in double digits with three of the four players coming off the bench, some of which can be attributed to Sims helping draw defenders.
Coming into this year, hopes were high for the Bears after last year’s success, but those dreams came crashing down on Monday when the Bears found out their season ended after not being selected to the NCAA Tournament as a bubble team.
After starting the season ranked No. 10, Baylor began to climb steadily only to go into a free-fall during a six game winless streak. After a three game winning streak, Baylor’s last hope was to win the Big 12 Tournament, but No. 1 seed West Virginia shattered any hope Baylor had with a 1-0 win Friday night at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Mo., in the Big 12 Championship Semifinals.
Baylor basketball opened its season last Friday night in the 2013 Bucks and Boots Showcase at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. The Bears played a 2013 NCAA Tournament team in the Colorado Buffaloes for a rematch of an early-season matchup last season.
Baylor led from start to finish in a 72-60 win over Colorado.
