Minute. I am the interim director at Baylor University press. We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco, texas. At baylor press, were very focused editorially. Almost all of the 40 books that we publish each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fort for our list, and were proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you Melissa Rogers needs no introduction at all. Shes served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylvania and a b. A. From Baylor University, and she now serves as visiting professor at Wake Forest University withs school of divinity and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. She has received an honorary doctorate both from Wake Forest University and the John Leland Center
We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco texas. We are very focused, almost all of the 40 books we published each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fit for our listand we are proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you linda rogers needs no introduction at all. She served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylvania and she serves as visiting professor at Wake Forest University school of divinity and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. She has received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University and the johnleland center for theological studies. 11 years ago Melissa Rogers coauthored her first book at Baylor University press, an ambitious volume called religious free
News. Republicans breathing a sigh of relief down in georgia and maybe throughout the country. Just a short time ago karen handel won the race, what had been a close contest. This is key because largely seen as a referendum on the Trump Administration. Keith standing by with more. Reporter they really wanted to take this. It barely won for President Trump back in november and now it seems republicans will hold on to it. Karen handel took it. She has grown close to majority whip Steve Scalise. She wants both sides to come together. In these days of United States of america, no one, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political believes and position. Ossoffs party, he just concede saying this is the start of something big. He is 30 years old, georgetown grad. The full Democrat Party thrown behind him. Watching this house race, it was the most expensive in history, a huge turnout, more than a quarter voters. And winner takes the seat once held by tom price who is serv
Going. Thanks. [ applause ] thank you. We go live to the Muslim Society in sterling, virginia to hear remarks from lynch this morning. The increase in hate crimes against muslims. Please welcome the honorable lore t Loretta Lynch. [ applause ] i will now introduce the boy scouts and girl scouts with the pledge lead by and then i will come back and introduce. You alone we ask for help. Guide us to those that have pleased and earn the displeasure. Its an honor to be here and a muslim and College Student and adventure scout and leader of the boy scouts of america, i wear the head scarf the way that the virgin mary did. We love her and jesus. E i have family members that are catholic and jewish and proving that love prevails. Today as we welcome Loretta Lynch, i wear my United States flag out of love and hope for my country. With that today i want to begin with the boy scouts, girl scouts and venture scouts of the Muslim Society. Color code. Attention. Color guard holt. Color guard cross t
Here when the front two cars snapped off the trailing six. Around 40 passengers had to be taken off the 7000 series train. Thankfully, no one was injured. One woman recorded this video as metro employees escorted her down the rocky rail bed. Her trek about the length of a football field. Metro has not said if it cut power to the third rail before evacuating passengers. It also isnt sure just how fast the train was going when the cars dislodged. Red line trains single tracked for an hour as crews worked to fix things. We did check our archives and we found this isnt the first time something to this effect has happened. In january, a green line train disconnected near the Navy Yard Ballpark station. Metro customers contend this is merely the latest black eye for the mass transit agency. Constantly its been stuff happening on metro. Whether a new train or older train, stuff like that shouldnt be happening. Metro needs to step up its game to operate properly. There are precious lives on th