5 Questions For Stephen Kotkin, and other links

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• 5 Questions For Stephen Kotkin -- “Xi Jinping...spent a great deal of his time and resources figuring out why that collapse happened in the Soviet Union and why it would never happen in China.”
• 1963 Annual of the North American Baptist Conference -- “The Baptist Jubilee Advance is a Cooperative Witness for Christ in which seven Baptist groups in the U.S.A. and Canada representing over 19 million people are cooperating.”
• A Look At Baptists Around the World (in 1995) -- “...in Canada, Baptists...almost have the status of a sect, never attaining the prominence and influence of the Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Church and United Church in that land. There are at least 14 different Baptist groups in Canada...”
• Black Americans See the Biggest Shift Away from Faith -- “Over more than a decade, the share of Black Americans who say that they have no religious affiliation has risen more dramatically than whites, Hispanics, or Asians.”
• Durham says Democrat-allied tech executive spied on Trump’s White House office -- “Special counsel John Durham says he is building a case to show the technology executive with whom an indicted Democratic lawyer on the payroll of Hillary Clinton’s campaign was working to build a Trump-Russia collusion narrative gained access to internet traffic at the White House...”
• Focus on Texas: Public Art -- “‘A true work of art takes at least an hour,’ wrote Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip.”
• Is Intelligent Design a Science Stopper? -- “The upshot of all this is that evolution does not follow the evidence, it follows a rule. The intellectual necessity does not allow for exceptions. Evolutionists must adhere to a strictly naturalistic origins story, regardless of the evidence. The science doesn’t matter.”
• Late-night reports suggest CIA collecting more data on Americans -- “The revelations have prompted calls from civil rights organizations and privacy hawks in Congress for legislative action to strengthen protections for Americans.”
• Levi Brand Boss Exits After Dispute Over School-Mask Opposition -- “Jennifer Sey, who was the company’s global brand president, said she passed up a $1 million severance package that would have come with a nondisclosure agreement so she could publicly discuss the circumstances of her departure.”
• Making sense of contemporary Charismatic Apostolates: An historical and theological appraisal -- “...as a whole, the Baptist Church has produced influential Charismatic leaders such as Jack Taylor, Ron Phillips, and Gary Folds, as well as the prominent Christian television presenter, James Robison...”
• Mark Ward’s KJV Parallel Bible - a glaring example of his poor scholarship -- “So just in that one exercise, if 3 places in one chapter was in error, and there are 260 chapters in the New Testament, we could be looking at 700-800 places he has overlooked.”
• KJV Parallel Bible -- “Using the KJV Parallel Bible, English speakers can see for themselves the differences between the two major textual traditions.”
• Outline of Baptist Persecution in Colonial America -- “1775 – Baptists presented petitions [in Virginia] calling for the abolishment of the established church; one petition garnered 10,000 signatures, including Presbyterians and some Anglicans.”
• Swedish Reformation Bible Society -- “In Google you can choose translate to translate this site into English.”
• Symbiotic Lichens Showcase Our Creator’s Ingenuity -- “Despite the errant views of Darwinists, we’ve come to realize that mutually beneficial creature systems widely pervade nature among both plants and animals.”
• The Baptist Scene Today in the U.S.A. -- “The bewildering disarray which the flourishing Baptists of the United States manifest is as confusing to the average American as it is to the on-looking Englishman. (old, 1963, but interesting)
• WM 226: André Juthe, Swedish Reformation Bible Society -- “The second edition of the New Testament Reformation Bible is expected to be published shortly. It is primarily a direct translation of the Greek Textus Receptus, but also a revision of Charles XII’s Reformation Bible.”
• Woodland Cemetery -- “Located off of Magnolia Road in Henrico, Virginia lies the historic Woodland Cemetery. It is estimated that about 30,000 people have been laid to rest here in its 29 acres.”