10 Things You Never Knew, and other links

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• 10 Things You Never Knew About Funeral Home History -- “Funeral homes might seem like they’ve been around forever, but they really didn’t emerge in the United States until the mid-1800s.”
• Baptist Roots: The Use of Models in Tracing Baptist Origins -- “The interpretation of historical evidence is greatly affected by the particular approach of the historian.”
• Does Pragmatism Tend Toward Liberalism? -- “One of the first things to go missing in pragmatic churches is regenerate church membership, or any meaningful way to discern whether or not a person wanting to join has placed their faith in Jesus.”
• How a Christian Woman is to Adorn Herself -- “Seek to find out what this means and go wherever the Lord shows you.”
• How Dictionaries Decide Which Words to Include and Exclude -- “The balance between tradition and innovation will remain a focal point for lexicographers as they strive to document the richness of human communication.”
• How far did the early Christians worship God? -- “The question which arises is whether these accepted terms are the best or the most appropriate ones to describe what Christians do, or what they ought to be doing, when they gather together.”
• How to Identify the Andersonites -- “This article is intended to be a warning for faithful Baptist churches both against Anderson’s practice and doctrine, as well as a ‘how-to’ guide for identifying the churches that openly or secretly associate with Anderson directly or at least maintain his doctrinal positions.”
• Is it True That No Two NT Manuscripts (MSS) Are Exactly the Same? -- “Years ago I myself wrote that no two MSS were identical, merely repeating the prevailing canard. But that was before I started collating MSS for myself.”
• Lanier and Ross’ Fallacious Footnote -- “Consider first the sloppiness of the footnote. While the first two references are properly cited, the reader is then offered a vague reference to ‘various’ materials produced by RBS...”
• Name Dropping -- “...The white board and batten Nameless School operated for 36 years, from 1909 to 1945.”
• Raising up Pastors Is the Church’s Work -- “...seminaries are...usually used for the wrong purposes. ”
• Terlingua’s Traces -- “...a trip to the cemetery confirms that Texans have been living out here for a very long time.”
• The God-Ordained Method for Missions -- “Sadly, the Christian life in the West has become more individualistic over the last sixty or seventy years.”
• The Roots of Red -- “Like many quintessentially American foods, chili (or more accurately chili con carne) was born from that unique amalgam of cultures found in the U.S.”
• Your Moral Code Has Christian Roots Whether You Know It or Not -- “he found...his core beliefs about universal value and equality...lay not in the French Revolution, nor in the Declaration of Independence, nor in the Enlightenment, but in the Bible.”