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...In the evening I walked the rim of the valley....
...Clance grew up in the Baptist Valley hills of Appalachian Virginia in the 1940s, the daughter of a sawmill operator and the youngest of six children. Everyone in her family called her Tiny....
...Does the overall decline in religious identity, so pronounced in places like the Welsh valleys, augur chaos and fragmentation?...
...Both said, I could never have an abortion but I would have never walked in another woman’s shoes and wouldn’t tell another woman what to do,” Slotkin says, in a September interview at the Mount Calvary Baptist...
...His family scraped the money together to afford schooling for him and an older brother at what he calls “the most affordable boarding school in America” — a Baptist school in rural Kentucky that had some...
...*This article has been amended to correct Dr Michael’s role and remove an erroneous reference to the government’s work with Silicon Valley companies...
...The two countries now stand on the brink of what Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a political-science professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University, calls a “new type of cold war”....
...Or is Sanders the harbinger of a lasting change — a John the Baptist to a future presidential Jesus? I probe that question in one of the least likely places — Marin County in northern California....
...After developing the concept in Silicon Valley as part of a Thiel Fellowship, Agarwal has steered Oyo to become India’s second-most valuable start-up, achieving a $10bn valuation in July....
...Another work with a two-sided tale is John Constable’s “The Skylark, Dedham” (c1830), a delightful oil-on-board of the artist’s beloved Stour Valley....
...At a time when there is much anger and hand-wringing over the outsized influence of a few business sectors — first banking after the financial crisis; now Silicon Valley — it is only natural that we are...
...The curriculum was approved by the Southern Baptist Convention, which embraces creationism....
...George HW Bush employed it for his 1988 campaign, and its patriotic poetry (“I saw below me that golden valley”, etc) was deemed sufficiently freedom-loving for inclusion in cold-war school songbooks....
...Although it is less famous than the “Mona Lisa” or the “Virgin of the Rocks”, “St John the Baptist” is arguably more remarkable than both of them....
...In Silicon Valley the phrase “disruptive technology” is tossed around on a casual basis....
...Mass tourism had begun, thanks to a Baptist minister from Derbyshire....
...The garden is not too far from the probable place where John the Baptist told his hearers they were a “generation of vipers”. The Baptist never tried to grow botanical plants in the desert....
...In her local Rains county (pop. 9,139), there are 31, of which 17 are Baptist. If you don’t belong to one, you aren’t part of the community, and there are few secular alternatives....
...He says he feels at home near Silicon Valley, the crucible of technological innovation....
...After a conversion experience while he was a 19-year-old freshman at a local Baptist college, he was called to the ministry....
...I’m having a week off to take my children to Los Angeles and another week off to go wine-tasting in Napa Valley with my wife Susan, who is the CEO of Brunswick Group and works much harder than me....
...But even Leonardo could not have improved on the precision with which one of his star pupils, Francesco Melzi, executed the columbine, anemone and lily of the valley that adorn “Flora”....
...From the Tabor Baptist Chapel, make the steep climb up Mynydd Dinas, using footpaths at first through stonewalled enclosures of grazing sheep....
...Gospel composer Dorsey started out as blues pianist Georgia Tom, but from 1932 he was music director of a Chicago Baptist church, and his blues-rooted compositions transformed gospel sensibilities....
...“You should definitely see the Baptist Chapel,” he tells me, after a ponder....
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