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According to new reports evangelical evangelist, teacher, author and lay theologian Beth Moore, one of the most successful and widely influential Christian women in America, has finally, publicly broken ties with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). This was probably an agonizing decision for her, but I applaud her for making it. The SBC has many problems and among them is a certain (ahem) inhospitality toward female speakers unless they totally toe the line with regard to the SBC’s complementarian stance. Finally Moore became so uncomfortable with that stance and its affects on herself and women in general that she broke off her relationship with America’s largest Protestant denomination and its publishing arm Lifeway.
Dover Lifetime Learning offers course on ‘American Short Story’
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Editor’s Note: The following was submitted the Friends of the Dover Council on Aging.
The Friends of the Dover Council on Aging with support of the Dover Council on Aging are sponsoring the following four-part Lifetime Learning series:
The American Short Story 1960 - Present
Mondays 1:30-3 p.m.
March 1, 8, 15, 22. Cost: $35
Classes conducted on Zoom: Instructions on how to join these meetings will be e-mailed to participants.
This course will focus on reading and discussion of short stories by a selection of eight American authors including John Cheever, John Updike, Lorrie Moore, Jhumpa Lahiri, Mary Gordon, Elizabeth Strout, Junot Diaz and Chimananda Ngozi Adichie. Guided by the instructor, participants will devote classes to discussing two stories at
The Baltimore Greenways Trail Network is a relatively new idea. Other projects working their way through Maryland’s transportation pipeline, including the Purple Line, the cancelled Baltimore Red Line, the Corridor Cities Transitway, and the Southern Maryland Rapid Transit Project, each date back decades. But the Baltimore Greenway, a proposed 35-mile network of urban trails ringing almost the entirety of Baltimore City, only dates back four or five years Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s earliest planning meetings for the project launched toward the end of 2015. But despite its newness, the trail network, spearheaded by a coalition with more than 40 stakeholder members, has a key advantage: it’s already almost done.
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