From our friends at the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies:

Please join us at 7 PM ADT on Monday, September 16, for the Rawlyk Lecture. Dr. Cindy Aalders from Regent College will speak on “Becoming a Baptist Woman: The Social, Intellectual, and Religious Worlds of Mary Steele Tomkins (1793-1861).”

The lecture, sponsored by the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies, will take place in the Langley Room of Acadia Divinity College. It will also be available online at  https://acadiadiv.ca/acbas/.

Mary Steele Tomkins was the great-niece of the hymnwriter Anne Steele. Dr. Aalders will examine her letters, diaries, and other sources to explore questions related to how she became a Baptist woman—adopting the faith for herself, rather than simply being born into it. She will use Tomkins’ story to ask, “How might a child take up faith as their own?”

Please share this invitation with others and plan to join us for this fascinating lecture on September 16.