The idea of eternal punishment insinuates the notion that it’s not possible to grow past your mistakes. What makes the most sense based on this interpretation is purgatory — a temporary place for purification.
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It’s time to bury the idea that the common way of shortening the word Christmas as Xmas is somehow offensive. This way of spelling Christmas does not have secular roots as many suggest, and it does not take Christ out of Christmas.
It’s natural to be stubborn when you’ve had an opinion for a long time. That being said, I implore nonreligious students to at least try a more in-depth religious course. You could truly learn new things and see the world from a different point of view.
Baylor is most likely first and foremost known for being a Christian university — and with that comes the pressure of following Christian ideas and including religious education in its curriculum. While I think it is great for Baylor to maintain its religious traditions, I think the Chapel requirement should no longer be included in its core curriculum.
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.
In order for the university to uphold its commitment to respecting all people, that would mean providing dietary accommodations for practicing Muslim first-year students specifically, since they are required to purchase a meal plan. These students deserve to feel comfortable eating on campus without fear that they are going against their religious beliefs by doing so.
Better Together BU abides by its mission statement and starts interfaith dialogue among students. As a partnership between Baylor Spiritual Life and Multicultural Affairs, the organization welcomes students of all religions to come together and gain understanding despite their differences.
At a university whose mission centers around leadership, academic excellence and “Christian commitment within a caring community,” it has become normalized to be religious on a more public scale.
As a first-year student at Baylor, you receive a lot of advice from upperclassmen and advisers: Go to class, find a study group and say yes to every opportunity. But the piece of advice that has been most impactful to me thus far has been finding a Christian community.
The Catholic Student Association became the first Catholic organization on campus after its official charter in 2008. Now, CSA members hope to expand their influence through new member recruitment and events held on Baylor’s campus.
There’s no better place to debate whether something challenges Christianity than the world’s largest Baptist university.
Ah yes, once again the Baptist Church put women in their place in 2023 … at least, that’s what you’ve been told. That couldn’t be further from the truth, and Southern Baptists have been providing the receipts to back it up for decades.
Overall, seeing people eye-to-eye can help you appreciate the value of their life. No more excuses of, “Oh, they don’t believe this or that.” Life is short, and we need more people who can see someone for who they are and not what they believe in.
However, Catholic churches are not the only point of emphasis in the exhibit or in Hafertepe’s upcoming book. There is heavy emphasis on many denominations, from historically Black Methodist and Baptist congregations to Jewish synagogues.
“Baylor does a really good job of inviting seminaries that are really diverse in terms of theological dispositions,” Dean said. “In my conversations with the different representatives, realizing and getting to understand more of the heart behind each individual seminary. They all have, yes, one central mission, but also unique missions to their seminary, to their institutions.”
“Another reason I’m excited to come to Truett is because I feel like I’ll be able to make that kind of text-to-ministry, text-to-life connection every day,” Shively said. “It’s just not something that I’ve been able to do at St. Andrews because it just isn’t the focus of the university. … This opportunity to come to Truett is, I think, fulfilling my deepest desires.”
“I’m interested to see how people respond to the argument about shared devotional techniques between poetry and painting from Catholic and Protestant,” Knoppers said.
Throughout the 40-day period, those who observe practice serving alms and self-discipline on multiple occasions — something other Christians could learn from partaking in as well. Lent is not a “Catholics-only” season; it is a tradition people of any denomination can learn from as well.
“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.
We perceive God with whatever makes sense to us, but deliberately altering the image of God to whatever you please is not something that I think most Christians can get behind.
There’s a clear stigma that Baylor students are all upstanding Christians and continuously growing in their journeys with the Lord, but how many of us really see ourselves fitting into that mold?
Being an agnostic myself, it can be hard to bring value to Chapel. Although I have already done my time, I would like to have known how to continue learning from every video and question I complete.
If you truly can’t get over the fact that you’re forced to learn about Christianity and the Bible, we just have one thing to say: You knew what you chose.
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A Baylor research study recently found that seminaries do little to equip pastors to recognize psychological distress among their congregants and when to refer those members to a doctor.