Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana

Waco's Baylor University

New University President Ken Star gives a historical sketch!

On the Baylor tradition...



A random snippet from the magazine First Things -- November 2010.


"Baylor's motto for all its 165 years has been Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana -- for the church and for Texas.

"Quintessentially American, Baylor's ecclesiastical tradition is deeply respectful of individual conscience.

"The Baylor tradition honors what Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson eloquently called the one fixed star in our constitutional constellation -- freedom of the mind.

"Early in the history of the New World, upholders of this tradition set their faces against the state establishment of religious communities.

"This tradition, a powerful one, is exemplified by Roger Williams, a Baptist who, in search of religious freedom, fled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to found Providence Plantation as a haven of religious liberty..."