Faith has been at the center of this year’s U.S. Senate race in Texas, both candidates — the incumbent Baylor graduate Ken Paxton and newcomer James Talarico — making Christianity a centerpiece of their campaigns. Few recent Texas races have been as openly fought over faith. Paxton has questioned whether his opponent can be considered
Exactly 100 years ago this Halloween, Texas A&M senior Cadet Lt. Charles Milo Sessums took his very last breath lying supine in a Waco sanatorium. The Aggie student had been bashed over the head with a broken piece of debris from the stands of Waco’s Cotton Palace stadium, where Baylor and A&M had been playing
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A sulfuric haze of green and gold hangs over McLane Stadium on the night of the Revivalry against TCU, left behind by a fireworks and colored-smoke display. Despite the cool night air, fans sip icy $10 Pops strawberry lemonades and crane their necks toward a drone show flashing near Gate D. Those not following the
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Playing first for the Bears, then the Cleveland Browns and the Dallas Cowboys, a young James “Jim” Ray Smith once dove into a voracious life of football, and across nine decades he never came up for air. Even after retiring from the NFL in the 1960s, Smith dedicated over a third of his life to
It was a sunny afternoon in the canyons of Bluffton, Texas. A local rancher spotted an odd-looking fellow camped near the riverbed, napping in a cot, a necktie draped over his dusty clothing. The rancher approached the sleeping man, Baylor faculty member John K. Strecker, and asked with some reservation: “Are you the bug-hunter?” Unamused to
On the morning of March 28, 1977, hundreds of Baylor students settled into their theater seats spread across Waco Hall, likely having marked themselves ‘present’ for another Chapel attendance credit. Often the young men and women would expect to hear a sermon in the historic hall, but this week was the annual University Forum. A
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