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Beth Moore has left the Southern Baptist Convention. I am still a Baptist, the prolific Bible study author said in an interview with
Religion News Service published Tuesday, but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists.
The import of this departure, as manyhaveobserved, is difficult to explain if you don t already know who Moore is. She s something like the book club leader version of Reese Witherspoon for conservative evangelical Christians, except she also writes the books and teaches classes and draws giant women s conference crowds, and she s worked through decades of dismissal and ridicule by male coreligionists.
The Atlantic
Hiking Is an Ideal Structure for Friendship
“Without this hike … it would have been one of those college friendships where you get together and talk about the old days.”
’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship.
This week she talks with a group of friends who have been going on monthly hikes for 25 years. They discuss why the hike organizer has absolute authority, how they’ve shown up for one another through tragedies, and why hiking together has bonded them more deeply than other ways of keeping in touch.