“For What You Were Prepared” ft. Baylor University’s Linda A. Livingstone I Saturdays at Seven – Season Two, Episode Three

In the third episode of the second season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Linda A. Livingstone, President of Baylor University. Livingstone begins by discussing the commitments that define the research university and the unique ways the Christian research university is designed to be of service to a world in need. Ream and Livingstone discuss Livingstone’s calling as a faculty member in business, how that calling came to include serving as dean of the business schools at Pepperdine University and George Washington University, and, in particular, how that calling came to include serving as president of Baylor. Livingstone addresses the theological imagination needed to lead a Christian research university such as Baylor and, in turn, how to form staff members and faculty members for lives of service to students as well as a myriad of external constituents. Ream and Livingstone then close their conversation by discussing the virtues that define the Christian academic vocation and the ways that the health of that vocation is connected to the health of the relationship shared by the Church and the university.