When I count my blessings, I am thankful for Houston Baptist University … for the students, the faculty, staff, alumni, The Guild, American Museum Society and so many other friends I have met during my journey on this very special campus. Through our time together, we all share in the enterprise of “a higher education.” …
Dr. Craig Evans, John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins, and Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston, associate professor of Early Christianity and president and founder of Christian Thinkers Society, a resident institute of HBU, last week published a column on the Fox News Opinion web page. “Was there a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem? Were the Pyramids …
Saleim Kahleh, associate university minister, was guest speaker for AIM (Athletics International Missions) missions week in San Luis, Dominican Republic July 18 to 25, 2017.
Mon’Sher Spencer, director of Student Involvement and Student Leadership Programs, served as camp pastor at Camp 220, July 17 to 21, in Waxahachie, Texas at Southwest Assemblies of God University.
Sarah Holloway, coordinator of Student Involvement, served as a Cluster Facilitator for AFLV’s LeaderShape (Southwest) at the University of Texas at Austin. The LeaderShape® Institute™ challenges participants to lead with integrity™ while working toward a vision grounded in their deepest values. Participants explore not only what they want to do, but who they want to …
Dr. David J. Davis, assistant professor of History, recently published a review of Europe after Wyclif, eds J. Patrick Hornbeck II and Michael van Dussen (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017) in the Journal of British Studies. Dr. Davis recently returned from a three-week long research trip as the Hardenberg Fellow at the Johannes a …
Dr. Chris Hammons, professor of Government and director of the Center for Law & Liberty, was the invited speaker for the monthly meeting of the Men’s Retiree Association of Houston on July 28. Dr. Hammons spoke about the importance of passing on our constitutional culture to the next generation.
Dr. Encarnacion (Encarna) Bermejo, was a symposium panelist at the XX International Symposium of Hispanic Studies in Spain on June 23. The topic of the symposium panel was “Teaching the language, how to analyze the media and linguistic proposal” and Dr. Bermejo presented her paper entitled “Emerging morphological system in the writing of students of …
When I arrived at Houston Baptist University in August of 1991, I was a 27 year-old Yankee from New Jersey who had spent the last five years of his life in the cold climes of Ann Arbor, Michigan. As I applied to universities across the country, I left myself open to God’s leading. However, I …
Driven by the need to support first-generation students, HBU created a mentor program in 2014. Over the course of four years what started out small has now become a full program of academic, social, spiritual and community support. “As a First Generation college student coming from a small town, I didn’t really think I would …
