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At least three UN schools housing displaced people have been hit directly by Israeli airstrikes in less than a week. A fourth suffered damage after an airstrike hit a building next to it.

Lately, there’s been a lot of focus on whose names are in history books and on monuments, streets and buildings, especially after the recent protests over racial injustice. So how can you request to have a Charlotte street renamed?

Pence warned that a Biden administration would threaten American freedoms and crumble the nation's economy. In making that case, Pence deployed several inaccurate or questionable claims.

NPR's Melissa Block speaks to musician Regina Spektor, who's known for her lyricism, about her first album in six years, "Home, Before And After."

Ukraine is celebrating 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union on Wednesday. It is also six months to the day since President Putin sent troops to try to bring Ukraine back into Russia's orbit.

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer shot a teen Saturday night after a party on North Tryon Street turned violent. Police were called to the 1400 block…

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For millennia, female authors, printers, and songwriters have shared their beliefs and devotional practices within their domestic and religious networks. Even Protestant women have a long history of making significant religious contributions, according to Amanda C. Pipkin, Ph.D. To illustrate the power of these efforts, Pipkin recounts the story of six Dutch women who were vitally important to the development of the Reformed Church, a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century predecessor of other reformed faiths based on the teachings of Jean Calvin, such as Presbyterianism. Her book reveals that a substantial number of early modern women did, in fact, drive reform and revival movements thus providing an early foundation for women’s ministry in today’s reformed Churches. Although many collectors, archivists, and librarians in the intervening centuries have not valued women’s creative works—so much so that most of the women’s texts featured in this book now survive in a single copy—Pipkin presents ample evidence that women’s devotional books were best-sellers, printed in many editions, and widely read. This long tradition laid a firm foundation for women leaders in Presbyterian Churches in Charlotte and beyond.


Amanda C. Pipkin, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her book, “Dissenting Daughters: Reformed Women in the Dutch Republic, 1572-1725,” published by Oxford University Press, has received the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender’s national 2022 Best Book Award. This first book-length study of women within the Dutch Reformed Church reveals the vital contributions women made to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith. This includes women’s work as editors and authors as this blog post shows. Dr. Pipkin also wrote ”Rape in the Republic, 1609-1725: Formulating Dutch Identity” (Brill, 2013), highlighting the significance of sex and gender in the construction of Dutch identity in pamphlets, plays, poems, and advice manuals, and co-edited “Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750” (Brill, 2019) (available in open access). While earning a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University, she volunteered in Mother Teresa’s homes in Calcutta, and later she earned a master’s degree at the University of Leiden, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Prepare for an unforgettable journey as Matthews Playhouse of the Performing Arts presents "Around the World in 80 Days," a timeless tale of adventure and exploration, February 22 through March 3, 2024. This epic production, based on Jules Verne's classic novel enjoyed by generations of readers, transports audiences to various exotic locations, capturing the spirit of adventure that defines this literary masterpiece. The content in this production is suitable for ages 8 and up.


Performance Dates: February 22 - March 3, 2024

Where: Fullwood Theatre (inside of the Matthews Community Center) 100 East McDowell Street, Matthews, NC 28105

Tickets: Prices range from $10-$19 and are available for purchase. Tickets and show times are available at www.matthewsplayhouse.com/around-the-world-in-80-days


Special Performances:

Pay-What-You-Can-Night Thursday, February 22, 2024 @ 7:30 p.m. - General admission, donations can be made at the door and most of the proceeds will benefit a local non-profit organization.

Sensory-Friendly Performance Saturday, March 2, 2024 @ 11:00am​ - This performance will be modified to accommodate children on the autism spectrum and/or with a cognitive or developmental disability. All questions about this performance can be directed to contact@matthewsplayhouse.com.

Weekday Performances for School Children February 26-March 1, 2024- Matthews Playhouse is offering weekday performances of “Around the World in 80 Days” for school children, teachers and homeschool communities to enhance and support the classroom curriculum. Those interested in attending a weekday performance can visit www.matthewsplayhouse.com/plan-your-field-trip.

Happens on the following Dates:
Feb 22, 2024, 7:30pm to 9:30pm CST
Feb 23, 2024, 7:30pm to 8:30pm CST
Feb 24, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm CST
Feb 24, 2024, 6:00pm to 7:00pm CST
Feb 25, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm CST
Mar 1, 2024, 7:30pm to 8:30pm CST
Mar 2, 2024, 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Mar 2, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm CST
Mar 3, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm CST

A former school resource officer at Charlotte's Myers Park High was the responding officer in reports of sexual assault that led to six arrests, according to court documents. The officer had been accused in a lawsuit of downplaying reports of sexual assault. The school's handling of sexual assault accusations has been a major story in Charlotte over the last year.

Nonprofit RIP Medical Debt buys up unpaid hospital bills plaguing low-income patients and frees them from having to pay.

A girl in Gaza's pleas for help were heard around the world, but over the weekend the Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed the child was killed along with an ambulance crew that tried to rescue her.

Robert Lewis Dear, the man suspected in Friday’s attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic, had lived in the Carolinas before moving to Colorado a…

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with TNT Sports sideline reporter and bracketology expert Andy Katz about final four predictions, championship X-factors and indelible moments from this year's bracket.

New Yorker writer Luke Mogelson says many of the insurrectionists he filmed at the Capitol "had no inkling that what they were doing was wrong or suspicion that it could result in any consequences."

The Charlotte Hornets get big praise from an NBA legend; the Australian Open has a North Carolina connection and high school basketball playoffs start this week.

Ukraine and Russia officials hold peace talks in Turkey. Biden says he was expressing "moral outrage" when saying Putin shouldn't stay in power. The Jan. 6 House panel takes new steps in the probe.

The Jan. 6 panel presents evidence in a final hearing. More details are out on why the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago. White House expels illegal Venezuelan migrants as it offers some a legal path to entry.

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9:00, Thursday, January 22, 2015A Marine colonel and a Navy captain were asked to devise a grand strategy for the United States in the 21st Century. Their…

The Southeast’s growing Latino population is the fastest in the nation with Charlotte and Atlanta topping the list. We’re feeling the impact on local…