By Rachel Chiang | Reporter Truett Seminary’s annual Willson-Addis Lecture returned to Baylor on Tuesday and featured Dr. Elizabeth Shively, who shared her lecture entitled “The King Worth Following: Discipleship According to Mark's Gospel.”Shively is a senior lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, and she has a Ph. D. in religion from Emory University. She has a primary concentration...

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By Rachel Chiang | Reporter After a 15-month renovation that started in 2020, Tidwell Bible Building reopened for the start of the fall 2021 semester. With the renovation, Tidwell is now able to display artifacts from biblical times that were acquired with the help of Dr. Bruce Cresson, a former professor in the Department of Religion. These artifacts include a...

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By Rachel Chiang | ReporterFor many of us, we have probably experienced bullying in some form sometime in our life. Unfortunately, getting bullied, especially with social media, is pretty much unavoidable, but sometimes there may be some positive effects that can come out of those negative experiences. Growing up, my mom always made me homemade lunches that usually featured some...

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By Rachel Chiang | Reporter FM72, the 72 hours of prayer and worship nights at Fountain Mall and McLane Stadium, will be held from March 27 through March 30. The campus-wide event originated in spring 1945 when Baylor students gathered on Fountain Mall and prayed for revival for 90 days straight. Now, the event is hosted by Baptist Student Ministries...

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By Rachel Chiang | Reporter Catholic Student Association (CSA) is Baylor’s only Catholic student organization and the first non-Baptist religious organization chartered since Baylor’s founding. Chartered in 2008, the organization promotes the intellectual and spiritual growth of its community through events geared toward service, faith and fellowship.“We just really try to promote spiritual community fellowship,” San Antonio junior and CSA...

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By Rachel Chiang | Reporter Students on campus shared their experience throughout the process of the storm after McLennan County’s tornado watch prompted Baylor to advise students to seek shelter Monday night. Las Vegas freshman Lindsay Wheeler said she was doing homework in her dorm room in Collins Hall when she got the campus-wide message to seek shelter. “I had...

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By Rachel Chiang | Reporter Young Life is a non-denominational Bible-based ministry that acts as a bridge between churches and Baylor students who do not go to church, according to director of Baylor Young Life John Mackin.“Young Life, in general, is a nonprofit organization, and our mission is to introduce adolescents to Jesus and walk with them in their faith,”...

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By Rachel Chiang | Reporter When students apply for a community leader (CL) position at Baylor, the process usually takes up to seven months, with multiple interviews and leadership courses to prepare them for the role. For Denton freshman Chloe Brown, the process only took a couple weeks. Brown is spending the second semester of her first year in college...

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By Rachel Chiang | Reporter BRH Choir, officially the Baylor Religious Hour Choir, is one of the oldest student-led organizations at Baylor, founded in 1948 by Dick Baker. The organization is an audition-based group that consists of around 50 students. They rehearse twice a week in the Paul W. Powell Chapel inside George W. Truett Theological Seminary and sing worship...

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By Rachel Chiang | ReporterBaylor offers five different Chapel experiences — one being Chapel Online, which it added due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Baylor should remove Chapel Online as a Chapel alternative for students since the worst of the pandemic is behind us, and Baylor has recently lifted mask policies and basically resumed normalcy in all aspects of...

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