The Research Project, Week Forty Nine, Wisconsin

Milwaukee’s Marquette University opened its doors on August 28, 1881. Two days later Bishop John Martin Henni, the man responsible for its founding, passed away. Marquette is a Jesuit University named after Rev. Jacques Marquette, S.J. (1637-75), a French missionary and explorer in North America. Early in 2005 my daughter met her husband-to-be at Marquette and…

The Research Project, Week Forty Three, Texas

Many of our nation’s elite private universities were started by the only educated people in the community, the clergy, and the denominations that they were members of. But eventually most of these universities became independent of the Christian denominations that founded them. That is not the case with Baylor University in Waco, Texas, the oldest…