The continued lack of interest in Chapel may not be a fault on the students’ part. It could be a call for Chapel to change and cater to those who fall through the cracks, bringing in guest speakers with diverse backgrounds and stories to reach them on a deeper level.
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“Tenderness is not just something we embody for others; it is something that we embody for ourselves, especially as we attempt to live, thrive, and work for justice under the siege of terror,” Walker-Barnes said.
How should we address these types of controversial questions? We need to be able to create safe spaces for these discussions. That means acknowledging that everyone’s experiences are valid, recognizing that their political philosophy does not determine their worth as a human being and using respectful rhetoric.
The newly created Biblical Journeys in the Holy Land study abroad program has been postponed from May 2024 to January 2025 due to the escalating Israel-Hamas War. Trip coordinator Dr. Cynthia Shafer-Elliott said faculty will keep a very close eye on the situation in collaboration with the Study Abroad Office.
Following Jesus, then, isn’t just a call to go to church on Easter or keep a Bible on a bookshelf. It’s a call to become like Him. To think how He thought, to live like He lived, to treat others in light of His sacrifice for them.
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Every year at orientation, the incoming class gets to learn its class hymn. Each class hymn is about the transformation of incoming freshmen as they become adults, allowing them to get a glimpse of what is to come as Baylor Bears. For the class of 2027, they learned “There’s More.”
The Spiritual Wellbeing Task Force was created during the 2022-2023 school year, eventually compiling more than 50 recommendations for President Linda Livingstone. According to Dr. Charles Ramsey, associate chaplain and member of the task force, it utilized surveys, questionnaires and discussion about how to put the needs of Baylor’s employees first.
“She has a heart of gold and her mission, honest to God, is to love you, and she is going to do it with these cinnamon rolls,” Cook said. “My suspicion is that the secret to Kimberly’s success has far more to do with how she treats other people than even the quality of her product.”
“It’s been wonderful seeing the Lord work through students lives in that sense … revealing the opportunity that prayer presents and how you can find peace from it,” Barberena said. “You can see it working through the students as well — the way that they treat each other, the kindness and love that everybody shows for each other. You can see it in the way that we are a Chapel team.”
“The beauty of the Gospel is that when you speak it across cultures … it resonates,” Aughtry said. “And I think that’s what I’m trying to do in all the faith and arts chapels, is find something that resonates with the art-making process, with storytelling process.”
After the prayerful procession in the dark, the walk was concluded in the walkway of Draper Academic Building with a song, “The Hail Holy Queen,” also know as the “Salvē,” which the group sang in Latin a capella.
Some might disagree, but I believe Christmas is about more than the birth of Christ. I know that sounds ridiculous, because it has his name in it. I certainly acknowledge that Jesus is the reason a lot of people celebrate Christmas, but I have different reasons.
As a passionate Christian who believes he has been called to help the Baylor student body, Houston junior Pearson Brown said he grounds his future as student body president in his beliefs.
One Baylor student, who began selling her own fashion products in high school, has big plans to use faith in her future fashion career.
“I’m just out here to tell people how much God loves them,” he smiled.
David Bolin is a Baylor alumnus and electronic design editor for Celebrating Grace Inc. Waco graduate student Priscilla Powell is currently going for her master’s in biology. Niceville, Fla., sophomore Stephen Farrell is studying trombone performance.
From her Harley Davidson T-shirt, dark lipstick and eyeshadow against her pale complexion, red streaks in her black hair and pentagram hung around her neck, one might think Xaos Giovanni to be a Goth at first glance — but the truth is more complex.
I could feel nothing. For more than six months I felt nothing. I was stuck in a fog. I could not see. I could not hear. I felt stuck in the gray. I breathed in light, but I lived in darkness.
Galileo. Copernicus. Evolution. Stem cell research. Science and faith have been viewed in opposition throughout history, said Jim Coston, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. Coston hopes to change that view with a series of guest lectures to be held at the church in April.
Imagine this: a world without time. What would it look like? Everything human eyes have ever swept across has been touched by time.
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.”
Quick fact: Six out of 10 college students will lose their religion after becoming indoctrinated by liberal professors.
Internationally known speaker, astronomer and Christian apologist Dr. Hugh Ross will visit Baylor Monday to speak on God and physics in two separate engagements.
Socrates once said, “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
Rachel Held Evans, author of the recently published “A Year of Biblical Womanhood,” spoke at Chapel on Monday about her year-long project to discover how to live the life of a “biblical woman” according to laws set forth in Scripture.
Baylor psychology students are continuing research into the effects of religion on interactions between people that indicates religion may lead to more closed-minded interactions.
I woke up two Sundays ago with tears in my eyes while my fearful heart asked God, “Do I have to?”
A Baylor study has found that friendships with fellow churchgoers have the strongest effect on a person’s belief in church doctrine, even more than their gender, geographic location, denominational background, level of education or income level.
Trying to document the history of the world’s largest religion would be a difficult task for anyone, but Baylor Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences Dr. Rodney Stark decided to fit in all in a book around 500 pages long without sacrificing quality or accuracy.