When she was only 11 years old, Emily Chapman went on a mission trip to Haiti that would forever change her life — and the life of her entire family. Upon returning home, Emily planted a seed that, after much prayer and consideration, ultimately led her parents — renowned Christian music artist Steven Curtis Chapman and […]
For almost 50 years, the combined choirs and orchestra of Baylor’s School of Music have welcomed Christmas with joyful worship during Christmas on 5th Street. This month — for the fifth year in a row — their hour-long performance is being broadcast on stations across the country. Thanks to a partnership with KWTX, “A Baylor […]
The tree in Burleson Quad is lit, and it’s officially Christmas on Baylor’s campus! Thursday night kicked off the most wonderful time of the year with the annual Christmas on 5th Street celebration. As always, the classic entryway arch set the scene for this beloved Baylor tradition. A live nativity outside the Bill Daniel Student […]
Sweater weather, hot chocolate, roaring fires, snowfall (sometimes, at least). Christmas season is unquestionably the most wonderful time of the year — and at Baylor, the most wonderful time of the year officially begins with Christmas on 5th Street. Nutcrackers and candy canes line 5th Street through campus. Horse-drawn carriages covered in lights trot past […]
It makes sense that the School of Education at Baylor — the world’s largest Baptist university — would be among the leaders in developing teachers and administrators for Christian schools. Since 1985, the Baylor School of Ed’s Center for Christian Education (CCE) has worked to identify and promote successful values-based approaches to education that are […]
While it’s common for incoming freshmen to be welcomed to college by campus leaders, it’s not so common for that encouragement to come in the form of a hymn — but that’s what we do at Baylor. Since 2008, each class of freshmen has received its own unique message of encouragement and hope written by University Chaplain Burt Burleson, […]
Baylor University is well-known for its distinctive mission and for the unambiguously Christian educational environment it offers — a place where students and teachers can examine issues and relate to one another through a lens of faith. At the same time, Baylor’s student body — now made up of more than 16,000 students — isn’t […]
As a young girl in Uganda, Rose Nanyonga’s family envisioned a dark path for her. But after finding Christ, she found her way to America, where she earned degrees from Arkansas Tech, Baylor and Yale; today, she’s making an incredible difference back home in Uganda. But it almost didn’t end up that way. Born to […]
This summer, Baylor Missions has sent (and is still sending) out its largest group of mission teams ever, with 25 teams (made up of almost 400 students, faculty/staff and alumni) serving in 16 destinations around the world, including the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Uganda, the United […]
In this blog, we write a lot about the outstanding achievements of Baylor Bears: the academic honors, the national trophies, the alumni who become household names. If we only focused on those, it would be easy for many other everyday, inspirational stories to go unnoticed. One of our favorite things to do is bring those stories to […]
