CFR’s annual Religion and Foreign Policy Workshop brings together leaders from across the U.S. A three-day Baylor University symposium on “Migration and Food Needs: Latin American and U.S. Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: Muslim-American Perspectives on U.S. Religion on X. To sign up to receive the monthly Religion and Foreign Policy Bulletin, please sign up here. CFR’s Religion and Foreign Policy (RFP) program serves as a resource for faith leaders and policymakers, and offers a forum for congregational leaders, seminary heads, scholars of religion, and representatives of faith-based organizations to discuss global issues in an interfaith environment. James takes it up in James 2:14, suggesting that faith is very little without good works, like giving alms. “This growing group of Americans can feel like there is at least some people in Congress who believe they matter.” says the co-chair and founder, Rep. The 2022 workshop was held in a hybrid format in May, with people attending both in person and virtually. Over 2,000 people were interviewed in person for the survey. The term “religious” refers to people who positively identify with any religious tradition regardless of how connected they are to it or how often they attend worship services.

Faculty are committed to a strong research agenda, and that agenda is tied to the Baylor tradition of providing the very finest in classroom instruction. Politics and Religion is an international journal publishing high quality peer-reviewed research on the multifaceted relationship between religion and politics around the world. They also challenge students to see the complex relationship these religions have had with each other in the arenas of politics, morality, and culture in the United States and the world. We probe the dynamic relationship between religion and society. Religious studies is interdisciplinary, and many courses examine the intersection of religion with other areas of study to determine its influence within society. Our studies focus on gaining a greater understanding of the world’s major religious traditions. Our courses invite students to immerse themselves in the rich and varied texts and traditions of Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Taoism (among others). The department offers a variety of courses regarding diverse African, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American traditions and scriptures.

This years Annual Department Lecture will feature Dr. Cynthia Shafer-Elliott. Each semester the department sponsors speakers and groups to campus to enrich the classroom teachings. The three groups remain within the margin of error of each other though, making it a statistical tie. We circle April 15 on our calendars in bold, red strokes, making the day stand out like a swollen thumb. The US public education system, like the Constitution itself, is meant to be secular, free from the sway of any religious institution. In the old history, people make slaves and they treated people like livestock. Leaders may also ask people to come to the front of the church for healing, where they might anoint them with oil and pray over them. Who are the “we” who are to educate the people of the world? Despite science’s promise of unlimited progress, no-one can claim that we have eliminated social, economic or moral problems in the western world; we are not perfect and science alone can never make us so. At Bowdoin, students have the opportunity to study the nature and significance of religion-in its philosophical, literary, social, and cultural expressions-from a variety of academic perspectives and without sectarian bias.

The Ministry Guidance program at Baylor University is designed to help students who are exploring careers in ministry – referred to as ministry students – to clarify and affirm their call to ministry and to introduce them to ministry as a vocation. Our undergraduate program in religion invites students to inquire more deeply into the Christian faith, to gain an enhanced appreciation of the contributions of Christianity to the development of twenty-first century culture, and to prepare for life-long lay or career ministry. Jesus asked, “What does it prosper a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul? Harvey persevered in his belief that someone would find something, and whenever a reporter tracked the man down, he would say that he was just a year or so away from publishing something. I have always been a man of rationality (well, what I thought was rationality) and have denied God for the past seven years or so. They also gain immense longevity of several million years when given the position of being God of Destruction. How did David first gain fame? Through the Luminous Mysteries, we meditate on the events of Jesus’ public ministry: his revelation as the Beloved Son of the Father at the Baptism in the Jordan, his first public miracle at the Wedding at Cana, his Proclamation of the Kingdom of God, Jesus’ Transfiguration, and the Institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper.