“The Hunger Games,” the teen action-adventure film that opened to big numbers last weekend, is, without question, a parable of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s also a cautionary tale about Big Government. And undeniably a Christian allegory about the importance of finding Jesus. Or maybe a call for campaign-finance reform?

Jesse Joe Hernandez was already a convicted child sex offender when he was arrested for the horrendous beating death of a 10-month-old boy he was babysitting at a Dallas home.

Poets and preachers, theologians and therapists — care-givers of all kinds, — will tell us that mourning is a life-long project. It’s ongoing, meaning, we are all letting go of something all the time. Maybe that’s why Jesus got to grief so quickly in the Beatitudes. It’s number two on the list, “Blessed are those who mourn.”

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Relay for Life will be held Saturday and Sunday on Fountain Mall. This event is an overnight fundraiser for the…

The Outdoor Adventure department will host a rock climbing trip from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Reimer’s Ranch…

https://vimeo.com/39176488 The Baylor Lariat traveled to Austin’s annual South by Southwest Music & Film Festival just in case you missed…

On Sunday, Waco’s Got Talent announced its winners for the 2012 talent competition season. Labraska Washington won the adult category, while the duet group of Reagan Bruce and Lillian Kennedy won the child category.