Baroness blackstone biography of abraham
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Abraham and Sarah
Written by Roberta Kells Dorr
Review by Marie Burton
In this biblical novel featuring the first patriarch and matriarch, Abraham and Sarah, the author glazes over the accepted storyline in Genesis but fills in the blanks with skillful storytelling. Beginning with Abram’s family, with Sarai as his half-sister, we follow the events in their lives as they marry and travel throughout the Holy Land.
With a supporting cast of characters such as Lot, his wife Mara, and Hagar the Egyptian, who becomes the mother of Abraham’s son Ishmael, readers of the Bible will appreciate the novelization as it adds more context to the actual events depicted in Genesis. The best features of this story are the characters as Dorr has portrayed them: selfish, envious, and flawed. Hope and redemption come along later, but the dramatic events beforehand will help readers appreciate the plight of our religious ancestors.
Readers looking for an obvious connection to God will be disappointed in the first half, as it takes a while for Abraham’s destiny to develop. Dorr examines the beliefs of various gods vs. Abraham’s God, the Elohim, who starts to take shape in the latter half. The author portrays her biblical knowledge well in all her novels, and this is no exception. The
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Ros Altmann, Baroness Altmann
UK pensions expert and campaigner life peer (born April 1956)
Rosalind Miriam Altmann, Baroness Altmann, CBE (born 8 April 1956) is a British life peer, leading UK pensions expert, and political campaigner. She was appointed to the House of Lords following the 2015 general election as a Conservative, but describes her work both before and after the election as being politically independent, championing ordinary people and social justice.[1][2][3]
She became well known in 2002 for leading[4] the "pensionstheft" campaign on behalf of 150,000 workers and their families whose company pensions disappeared when their employers' final salary scheme failed. Having been assured their pensions were safe and protected by law, these workers from companies such as Allied Steel and Wire, Kalamazoo Computer Group, Dexion, British United Shoe Machinery and UEF suddenly faced losing their whole life savings and her work contributed to establishing the Pension Protection Fund and the Financial Assistance Scheme. She has also supported the campaign for people whose pensions were placed in peril by Equitable Life.
In 2011, she campaigned against the sudden, short notice increases in women's state pension age, achieving