5 ways baseball’s all-time record books, and other links

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• 5 ways baseball’s all-time record books could change with Negro League stats added in -- “Major League Baseball made a historic — and long overdue — announcement Wednesday, elevating the Negro Leagues to a major-league level.”
• A Candid Statement of the Reasons Which Induce the Baptists to Differ in Opinion and Practice from so Many of Their Christian Brethren, by John Ryland (1753-1825) -- “In this pamphlet John Ryland outlines the distinctive beliefs of Baptists.”
• Alito: Court’s ‘Preposterous’ Trans Ruling Threatens Religion, Speech, Privacy, and Safety -- “...Justice Samuel Alito...He noted that Congress has tried and repeatedly failed to amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in just this fashion and that no one interpreted the law this way until 2017.”
• Arlington Statement on Bible Translation -- “Because every person in every culture needs to know God’s truth in all of its fullness, Bible translations should not avoid confronting sin or falsehood that the original-language texts confront, whether among believers or unbelievers.”
• FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization -- “The Federal Trade Commission today sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct.”
• Hopewell Baptist, Org. 1876, Quitman County, Georgia -- “The congregation is now inactive and has been so for a number of years. However, the structure is in remarkable condition, given the footings and underpinnings of the church have been there for 135 years.”
• Interpreting 1 Corinthians 14:33b-35 (Part 1) -- “That women were “silent” in all first century church meetings everywhere (and not just Corinth) is evident from the way the paragraph begins, “As in all the churches of the saints...”
• Leonard Brothers Built Retail Empire -- “The Leonard Brothers was a cross between a modern day super store and a shopping mall. It was a place to purchase merchandise and a place to meet up with friends.”
• Lights of Advent Bring Message of Hope -- “Lights of Advent displays 17,000 lights along a two-story, 100-foot wide grid to portray the coming of Jesus as told in the Gospel of Luke.”
• Must Women Be Silent in Churches? (1 Corinthians 14:34) -- “The Bible’s teaching may be controversial but it’s not self-contradictory. Paul doesn’t forbid women from praying and prophesying in the assembly.”
• Origen on I Corinthians -- “What Origen wrote, in Greek, in the third century.”
• Shepherds Are Shaped by the Sheep -- “The people we ministered to shaped this minister. There’s a symbiosis to shepherding. Shepherds are shaped by the sheep.”
• Studies in Tertullian and Augustine, by B. B. Warfield -- “This free book download is a collection of articles by B. B. Warfield on Tertullian and Augustine that previously appeared in a variety of soruces.”
• The Battle of Athens, Tennessee -- “On August 1, 1946, a group of Southern World War Two veterans in Athens, Tennessee, fought and won the only successful armed insurrection in the United States since the War of Independence.”
• “What Exactly Should We Be Looking For?”: Reflections on My Recent Search for a Church -- “My husband and I have put down roots in a local church here in Washington where the Word is boldly proclaimed, where fellow believers strive for holiness and pursue meaningful fellowship.”