Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...received a B.S. in journalism in 1954, then a B.D. from the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky in 1958. Marius then traveled to Strasbourg, France as a Rotary Fellow...
...experiences were always so charming--you know, this Southern gentleman meeting these Europeans and them being as fascinated with him as he was with them," Zwick said...
Thomas said Marius--the author of biographies on Thomas More and Martin Luther, and a trained Southern preacher--had a background that made him a skilled orator...
Infuriatingly, Diwali is also the occasion on which the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board has chosen to begin a campaign to convert Hindus and make them aware of the "darkness in their hearts that no lamp can dispel." I take serious offense to the idea that the Baptists are using one of the holiest times of the year for Hindus to begin a campaign of proselytization...
...Cold and bright, dark and drizzly, thunder and lightning, hot sun and still air--the heavens can open up and give me anything they've got. Weather is wonderfully evocative, like an old song or a familiar smell. Hot, breezy sunshine transports me to my grandparents' house in southern California, and each clear, crackling autumn day calls up every back-to-school shopping trip I've ever taken...