The Story of Coffee, and other links

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• Are Catechisms a Baptist Thing? -- "It’s not as well known, but Baptists also have a rich tradition of writing and using catechisms."
• Bass Reeves, Lawman Extraordinaire -- "Could the West’s first African-American deputy marshal have inspired the Lone Ranger?"
• ‘Everything to Me’: A resilient couple finds home and hope in one of Alabama’s poorest communities -- "If you come and see the people, and talk with them, they don’t talk about how they’re living on less than $12,000 a year...Their focus is on their joy and the things they do have."
• Have Landmark Baptists made any helpful contributions to the Christian tradition? -- "While Landmark Baptists may have been the most vocal in championing Baptist perpetuity, this view was held by the majority of all Baptists from the 17th to the 19th century."
• In Defense of Church Membership -- "...Paul described a repentant individual as one once excluded by “the majority” (2 Cor 2:6)."
• Samuel Harriss -- "In Virginia Baptist Ministers, by James Barnett Taylor and George Braxton Taylor"
• Spurgeon Uncut and Unpasted -- "What we read today is not exactly what Spurgeon’s audience heard...Spurgeon spent most of Monday and Tuesday revising and editing the stenographers’ copies of his spoken sermons."
• The Origin, Theology, Transmission, and Recurrent Impact of Landmarkism in the Southern Baptist Convention (1850-2012) -- "The research concluded that Landmarkism is far from a forgotten piece of Southern Baptist history. Its influence, impact, and grip are very visible in some Southern Baptist beliefs and practices."
• The Story of Coffee -- "One of my summer reads is Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity by H. E. Jacobs. This book was written in the 1930s, but don’t let that stop you from reading it."