Baylor News
Baylor’s chapter of Ratio Christi, a nationwide Christian apologetics organization, planned to host its keynote fall event this past Monday in Waco Hall, featuring Ratio Christi CEO Dr. Corey Miller and Dr. Frank Turek, founder of Cross Examined, another Christian apologetics group. When security costs came in higher than the group expected in the days before the event, and marketing was limited because the event was designated “expressive” under Baylor Student Activities policy, Ratio Christi postponed the event over the weekend.
Just weeks into his first semester at Baylor, Riverside, California, freshman Aidan Christopher crossed a finish line almost 5,000 miles away from campus — and threw a Sic ’em to the crowd.
One of Baylor President Linda Livingstone’s first efforts to address the university’s past exclusions came in 2017, when she invited generations of women back to campus to participate in a tradition they had once been denied: running the Baylor Line.
Living off campus doesn’t mean living without community. Baylor’s commuter students are finding ways to make staying on campus longer worth the hassle of a late-night drive home.
Waco News
According to the International Mission Board, the 70 million members of the global deaf population are “some of the least evangelized people on Earth.” Only about 2% of deaf people have been introduced to the gospel. With no deaf churches between Dallas and Austin, that was just as true in Central Texas as anywhere — until Richard Larson came to town.
Inconspicuously situated on a once-vacant lot in a sleepy Waco neighborhood on the 1100 block of Taylor Street is an array of crop beds growing vegetables such as onions, cabbage, peas and sorghum. The property is the site of Global Revive — a nonprofit organization founded in 2013 to “revive our world back to nature” by encouraging people to grow their own food.
From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, zookeepers at the Cameron Park Zoo rarely get a moment off their feet, spending the vast majority of their time training and caring for the more than 1,700 animals across over 300 species currently housed within the zoo’s boundaries.
In partnership with Waco Habitat for Humanity, Amy’s Attic will host its first “Cars for a Cause” event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday at 1821 South New Road. The event will include a car show along with local food trucks and vendors, raising funds for the humanitarian efforts of Habitat for Humanity.
State News
President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, with the execution scheduled for 1 p.m. Dec. 3 at the Central Texas military installation, roughly an hour from Baylor’s campus.
