18 key events and other links

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• 18 Key Events of Church History a la Haykin -- A list of just what it says.
• Andrew Gifford baptizes Mrs. Deschamps -- "A wonderful appearance of providence at baptism."
• Anglican communion's 'bitter divide' over gay rights -- "One Church of England source has termed it 80% likely that some will walk out of the meeting after the agenda has been agreed, as those who - on Biblical grounds - are firmly against accepting homosexuality want an apology and repentance from the liberals within the US Church for appointing openly gay priests and bishops."
• Christianity and Islam: Evangelicals and Americans Are Not on the Same Page About the "Same God" -- "A lot of debate has swirled around the similarity (or dissimilarity) of Christianity and Islam lately. What do people think?" 
• Franklin Graham to Christians: Vote Only For Those With 'Biblical Principles' -- "Graham...asked people to sign a pledge that asks them to support 'candidates who will uphold biblical principles, including the sanctity of life and the sacredness of marriage'."
• Presenting the Nominees for 2015 Word of the Year -- Sad what a low class of new words we have to choose from for "Word of the Year"
• Rebel Yell -- "The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson"
• The Dilemma of Theistic Determinism -- "If theistic determinism is true, then God is the evil doctor writ large, a cosmic Dr. Strangegood." 
• The Journal of Baptist Studies, Volume 7 (2015) -- To view as a PDF, select link at the bottom of their page.
• The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War -- "Old former President John Tyler, who had literally known the Founders like Madison and Jefferson, possibly even meeting Washington as a boy, proposed there be one great last effort to save the union through a Peace Conference."
• Why are more people identifying themselves as bisexual? -- "A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests bisexuality in America is on the rise, specifically among women."