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The woke professor tearing up Baylor University continues his wild ride of unrestrained progressivism, recently interrupting church liturgy to unironically point out that the title of a centuries-old hymn is “sexist” for containing the word “brethren” and that he’s edited and moved around parts of it as to not cause offense. The last thing that I’ll mention is because I’m Episcopalian, I don’t like to interrupt liturgy. Liturgy is holy. It works when it’s together. We have a song that is 200 years old, which will be our opening hymn. I am well aware that the title Brethren We Have...

Members of the victorious Baylor University Lady Bears basketball team were in for a treat during their White House visit on Monday — a buffet of McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, Wendy’s and Burger King classics. President Trump welcomed the star athletes to the Oval Office in celebration of their 2019 NCAA Division I Championship win, having defeated Notre Dame 82-81 earlier this month. The occasion marked the first women's basketball team – college or professional – to visit to the Trump White House. As noted by USA Today, the official visit from the Texas collegians was something of a return to tradition....

Baylor University announces that Kenneth Winston Starr, J.D., current dean of the School of Law at Pepperdine University, has been named the 14th president of Baylor University. Starr was the unanimous choice of both the 14-member Presidential Search Committee and the 10-member Presidential Search Advisory Committee, and was elected unanimously by the Baylor Board of Regents on Feb. 12.

Ken Starr Named President of Baylor University By Jean Cowden Moore Posted February 15 Ken Starr, dean of the Pepperdine School of Law, has been named president of Baylor University, a private Baptist school in Waco, Texas. Starr, who came to national attention when he investigated former President Bill Clinton’s real estate dealings and personal affairs, will start his new job June 1. Baylor has an enrollment of 14,600 and, like Pepperdine, is known as a Christian university. Baylor has been looking for a new president since former president John Lilley was forced out in 2008. Starr has been dean...

Kenneth W. Starr, the former independent counsel whose work led to the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton, was named president of Baylor University this morning, sources said. Starr’s appointment as president of Baylor brings a nationally known, but highly controversial figure to the Waco campus at a time of prolonged and occasionally tumultuous transition from a teaching school to one focused on research and the pursuit of a top-tier ranking among colleges nationally. It ends a nearly 20-month-long search that began when former Baylor President John M. Lilley was fired in July of 2008.

A contingent of Baylor University officials will leave today for Washington, D.C., to make their case for why the school should host the George W. Bush Presidential Library. The seven-member Baylor delegation is scheduled to make its oral presentation beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the capital's historic Mayflower Hotel, said Tommye Lou Davis, director of Baylor's presidential library planning committee. Baylor officials continue to keep quiet about the details of their proposal, out of concern of tipping their hand to the other contenders. Last month, the president's library selection committee, headed by former U.S. commerce secretary Don Evans, announced...

The Starbucks location on the Baylor University campus is stirring up more than just coffee -- they're stirring up some controversy. Baylor University officials told Starbucks to remove a cup in the store they felt promoted homosexuality. The cup in question has a quote from gay novelist Armistead Maupin and reads: “My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.” Baylor University refused to comment on the issue....

A former Baylor University seminary student who lost his scholarship because of his homosexual lifestyle is paying the price for sending more than 1,000 lewd e-mail messages to school officials and their family members. A judge recently ordered 25-year-old James Bass to pay $77,000 for sending pornographic images and messages to officials at Baylor, a Baptist university in Waco, Texas. The former student, who withdrew from the school after losing his scholarship as a result of his homosexual conduct, was also ordered to stop sending e-mail to the university personnel and their families. Baylor attorney Andy McSwain says the school...

On his first day as interim president at Baylor University, William Underwood fired the Texas Baptist school's highly visible symbol of Vision 2012: provost David Jeffrey. Jeffrey recruited many Christian faculty as part of Vision 2012, two goals of which are a deeper integration of Christian faith and scholarship, and that Baylor become a top-tier research university. After Jeffrey refused to resign, Underwood on June 1 ended his role as provost. The move further polarized the campus, already divided over Vision 2012 and the actions of Robert Sloan, the previous president who is now chancellor. The next day at an...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Baylor University’s new interim president, William (Bill) Underwood, stated reasons May 2 why he has been a financial supporter of a Planned Parenthood sexuality program for youth entering the fifth through ninth grade. In an interview requested by Baptist Press, Underwood stated that he and his wife have enrolled their daughter and son in the half-day program in recent years. Planned Parenthood in Waco, Texas, where Baylor is located, and in numerous cities across the country, provides abortion and other sexual-related services and is known as the nation’s largest provider of elective abortions. Controversy over Nobody’s Fool, a...

A Jewish Studies professor urges the destruction of the Jewish State. Baylor University’s Anti-Jewish Liberation "Theologian" By Steven PlautFrontPageMagazine.com | May 5, 2005Marc H. Ellis is university professor and director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University, a Baptist University in Waco, Texas, not ordinarily on anyone's radar map as a particularly notable institution when it comes to the field of Jewish scholarship.  Indeed, theologically Waco is best known for serving as home of the Branch Davidians and the abortive FBI raid on its headquarters.  Thus fringe "theologians" seem to feel right at home there.  Maybe...

In "God On The Quad" Naomi Schaefer Riley reveals that some of the popular assumptions made about religious colleges — citadels of intolerant thinking, with inferior curricula and in-your-face religious zealotry — are either outdated or simply wrong. She profiles a number of individual schools including: Mormon stronghold Brigham Young University; Fundamentalist Christian Bob Jones University; Catholic Notre Dame and Thomas Aquinas College, one of the quirkiest schools mentioned; Jewish Yeshiva University, and Evangelical (Baptist) Baylor University. Unsurprisingly, the biggest issue religious colleges face is how to reconcile the seemingly incompatible nature of secularism, with its accent on post-modern, radical...

Four years ago, Baylor University announced what it called “Baylor 2012.” Its goal is to “propel [Baylor] into the ranks of the nation’s top tier colleges and universities,” while retaining and even strengthening Baylor’s Christian identity. The most important factors in becoming a “top tier” college or university are the faculty and the students. To that end, Baylor has committed itself to recruiting faculty “capable of achieving the best of scholarship, both in teaching and research.” More important, new faculty members must “embrace the Christian faith” and be “knowledgeable of the Christian intellectual tradition.” The goal is “to exemplify the...

WACO -- Some 400 Texas mayors want the George W. Bush presidential library to be built at Baylor University, school officials said today. Baylor is one of several institutions seeking to be the site of the library, a decision Bush is expected to make after leaving office. Other contenders are the city of Arlington, where Bush was managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team before he was elected governor; the University of Texas at Austin; SMU in Dallas, the first lady's alma mater; Texas A&M and Texas Tech universities. In October, 100 mayors said they endorsed Baylor as the...

(Agape Press) - The student newspaper at the largest Baptist university in the world has endorsed homosexual "marriage." Back in November, Christian pollster George Barna reported that approximately 40 percent of young adults (between the ages of 18 and 38) believe it is "morally acceptable" to have a sexual relationship with someone of the same gender. If one believes those findings, it should come as no surprise that on Friday, the editorial board of the Baylor University Lariat compared opposition to same-sex marriage to discrimination based on skin color or religious beliefs. After summarizing recent events in San Francisco, where...