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.
Browsing: Faith
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.
Soldiers who don’t believe in God can go to war with “Atheist” stamped on their dog tags, but humanists and others with various secular beliefs are still officially invisible in the Army.
Plenty of people pray daily, but for Waco resident Virgil Bell, praying is a full-time job.
As children, we sat in our elementary school classrooms and learned about the great American melting pot. We derive many things in our country from members and traditions of many other nations.
For some, the start of the new year brought grief and sadness as they returned to Baylor from the holiday break — without three of their peers.
A student-run Christian organization, I Am Second, launched at Baylor Tuesday.
“Why me” is a phrase not found in the vocabulary of freshman Quincy Miller. During his high school career he had three close family members pass away. His senior season was lost due to an ACL tear in early December. Though these storm clouds loomed about him, Miller found the perspective needed to rise above.
If my graduating class votes to give our senior class gift to a new football stadium, I will do my very best to delay graduation.
Senior year of high school wraps up between a backpack full of memories and a graduation cap. But for seniors, somewhere between taking the SAT and hearing the bassoons in “Pomp and Circumstance,” a package arrived at the door — and a decision had to be made.
It can be hard fitting in at a university where many of the people you meet believe you’re going to burn in hell.
When meeting fellow Baylor students, the question “Where do you go to church?” often comes up as frequently as questions about hometowns and majors.
Two Baylor alumnae have decided to follow their passions and return to school. Ann Golding, class of 1979, and Susan Rutledge, class of 1986, both attended the Dallas Theological Seminary.
Dr. James O’Donnell explored the changing light in which Christians viewed other religions Wednesday in his lecture “The Death of the Gods: What We Can Learn from the Pagans.”
Killing entire races of people, slaughtering men, women and children and showing no mercy: such topics don’t often make their way into the typical Bible bedtime story, but according to Dr. Philip Jenkins, these darker and often bloodier passages cannot be ignored.
The fifth annual Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture will begin today, focusing on the topic of higher education and the exploration and communication of wisdom through learning.
Baylor’s newest faculty member presented her first lecture as the visiting distinguished professor of religion and public life, discussing her experiences as a Christian and theorist Wednesday.
Last spring, with friends graduating, career fairs buzzing, summer camps interviewing for counselors and friendly Baylor emails flashing hints that eventually I would have to face [gasp] “the future,” I started getting the heebie-jeebies.
The bear trail: a feat that many take on with many motives.