Since 2005, Baylor’s Department of Sociology, along with the university’s Institute for Studies of Religion, has been conducting national surveys of American religious beliefs, values and behaviors. They’ve delved into topics such as American secularism, megachurches, religion’s influence on voters, and whether Americans believe in healing prayer. Their results are often surprising, provocative, even incendiary […]
We’ve all been there. It’s 2 p.m. on a Monday, you’ve worked through lunch, and you have zero motivation to push through the day. Or, you’re in the middle of a work project, being the most productive you’ve been in days, and your significant other calls. Or, you’re at home, sitting down to eat dinner […]
Have you ever heard someone say that cockroaches could survive a nuclear war? The idea is common enough today that even the Mythbusters have looked into it — and it’s an idea first noted by a Baylor grad. Dr. H. Bentley Glass, BA ’26, MA ’29, made that observation while studying the effects of radiation in […]
For the last five years, explorers from Baylor and three other colleges have painstakingly uncovered a puzzle in Huqoq, Israel. Buried underground for centuries, an ancient synagogue filled with elaborate mosaics has emerged from the rubble, and amazingly, many of the 1,500-year-old artifacts have been found mostly intact. This summer, the excavation team uncovered even […]
Whether in the halls of Congress or the streets of Waco, Jeremy Everett, MDiv ’01, spends his days addressing a topic that has become a burning passion — fighting hunger. Everett is the founder and executive director of Baylor’s Texas Hunger Initiative (THI), an organization that began in a small office in a Baylor parking […]
Every four years, the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR) chooses one scholar whose impact on the field is most deserving of their biggest honor. This year, a Baylor professor earned that honor. Dr. Wade Rowatt, a Baylor psychology since 1997, was honored with the 2017 IAPR Godin Prize for the Scientific Study […]
Paleobotany, paleomagnetism and paleoclimate aren’t words often used in everyday conversation. Even as academic disciplines go, they’re not among the most commonly cited. But as Dr. Daniel Peppe shows, these rare words and disciplines help us understand how climate change over time impacts plants and animal life on Earth. Peppe is an associate professor and […]
On any given day in the Baylor Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic, patients both young and old find their voices in a variety of ways. From children learning to communicate to older adults recovering from strokes, the clinic has met many needs in more than a half-century of service. Last year, the clinic got a […]
Baylor history professor Thomas Kidd‘s latest book begins with a question: At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, why did Benjamin Franklin, of all people, suggest they begin the proceedings with prayer? The answer to that question turns out to be much more complex than you might think. With that moment as a starting point, Dr. Kidd unpacks Franklin’s complicated […]
Why is U2 so popular across the globe? How much of our idea of heaven and hell is actually from the Bible? And why are we so obsessed with zombies? Such are the questions that Dr. Greg Garrett, a Baylor professor of creative writing, literature, film and theology, asks in the dozens of books and articles he’s written […]
