BAYLOR LINE FESTIVAL 2024
It’s that time of year again. Time for the biggest ideas in the Baylor Family. Join The Baylor Line live via the links below for eight outstanding panels with the movers & shakers of 2024.
LIVESTREAM AGENDA
9:00 am | Live Recording of "The Baylor Brief" Podcast
Kourtney David (Edit0r-in-chief, The Baylor Line) and Jonathon Platt (CEO, The Baylor Line) record the first episode of The Baylor Line’s weekly news podcast. Learn about what’s happening in the Baylor Family, on campus, and the stories we’re telling for every Baylor grad.
9:40 am | Bridging The News Gap: A Panel with Leaders from The Waco Bridge
Ayan Mittra (Senior Managing Editor, The Texas Tribune) and Natalie Choate (COO, The Texas Tribune) are here to discuss The Trib’s latest investment: a nonprofit newsroom experiment in Waco. As The Trib embraces an expanding model, learn about why Waco is the first case study for their vision of whole new model of service journalism.
10:40 am | Some Gained, Some Lost: Becoming the Pastor's Wife
Beth Allison Barr (Professor of History, Baylor University) is known for her bestselling, breakthrough book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood. Four years later, Barr is preparing to publish her next manuscript: Becoming The Pastor’s Wife. We’ll discuss what brought her to the topic — professionally and personally — and what she hopes to accomplish with her growing role as a voice in the role of women in the Christian church.
12:10 pm | Up In Smoke: A Hellacious Year for Helberg Barbecue
In November 2023, Phillip & Yvette Helberg (Founders, Helberg Barbecue) experienced the worst: Helberg Barbecue, their award-winning barbecue restaurant was destroyed by a fire. In the year since, the Waco and barbecue communities have come together to support their rebuilding and expansion. Hear about the hellacious year the Helbergs just survived (and thrived!) through.
1:10 pm | Won't Back Down: Waco Women Inspiring Change
Mary Landon Darden (CEO, Higher Education Innovation) and Fiona Bond (CEO, Creative Waco) may work in different industries, but these two inspiring women share an incredible quality: they make big ideas happen wherever they go, no matter the odds. Hear about their storied lives and careers of championing new ideas and how they brought innovation into their industries — again and again.
2:10 pm | An Unholy Divide: What's Going On In Baptist World USA?
Mark Wingfield (Executive Director, Baptist News Global) is back at Line Fest to discuss the changes, crises, and cultural shifts happening in the world of Southern Baptists. Right on the heels of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, Mark and Jonathon will break down the latest news and what’s ahead for evangelicals in America.
3:20 pm | Going Global: A Conversation On International Affairs
Joanne Cummings (Adjust Professor, Political Science), The Baylor Line’s resident international expert, is back to talk about the widening crises in the Middle East, her perspective on the path to peace, and how she thinks the region will respond to a second Trump administration.
4:20 pm | Pour Decisions: A Panel On Wine In Waco
Carter Lacy (Co-host, Somm Of Our Thoughts) and David Mayfield (Owner, The Wine Shoppe) close out Line Fest ’24 with a conversation on the growing world of wine in Waco. Plus, they talk through a sampling of wide-ranging examples of natural wine. What a way to end the day!
