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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Pre-History of Jackson County, Oklahoma (3)

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By 1891, a few short years after its founding, the town of Frazer was home to several businesses. These included a hotel, drug store, a gene...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Pre-History of Jackson County, Oklahoma (2)

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Among the most important pioneers in what is now Jackson County, Oklahoma, were the family of John and Susan McClearen. In 1885, the McClear...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Pre-History of Jackson County, Oklahoma (1)

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Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to pass through what is now southwest Oklahoma. But they never stayed in the region. Later, in th...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple

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The most recent issue of the Stone-Campbell Journal includes an article by Kelly Tyrrell titled "Strange Bedfellows: Jim Jones and the...
Tuesday, February 04, 2025

J. W. McGarvey on the Elders in Acts 14:23

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Acts chapters 13 and 14 narrate what is often called Paul's First Missionary Journey. In this story, the Apostle is accompanied another ...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Is "Revisionist History" Redundant? Not Always.

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At first glance, this title seems to contradict my previous post, where I argued that revisionist history is redundant because all historic...
Sunday, July 07, 2024

Why "Revisionist History" is Redundant

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I want to make a case: The expression revisionist history is redundant. It's like  tooth dentist . The origin of the phrase seems clear...
Friday, December 30, 2022

El Meta and the Church of Christ at Minco in 1919

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In 1919, the newspapers in Minco were mostly quiet about El Meta Bond College. The local school system and business colleges in the area app...
Monday, November 07, 2022

Alexander Campbell on the Biblical Tabernacle

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Campbell published his four-part series on the biblical Tabernacle in the Millennial Harbinger 1861, the year he turned seventy-three. By t...
Sunday, October 02, 2022

David Lipscomb on the Roles of Christian Women, 1892

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In October 1892, David Lipscomb set out to define what Churches of Christ should teach and practice regarding the roles of Christian women i...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

Reaction to Meta Sager's 1936 Speech in Minco

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The reaction to Meta's speech that night was a fond memory of hers for the rest of her life. A few days after the event, she wrote to Cl...
Saturday, September 03, 2022

Meta Sager's 1936 Speech in Minco, Oklahoma

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On Tuesday, December 15, 1936, Meta Sager spoke during a large banquet held in Minco. The occasion was the laying of the cornerstone for the...
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Frank Bellizzi
I am a Christian, a son and a brother, a husband and father, an elder in the Body of Christ, an American historian, a Bible student, a college instructor, and a music fan. I also like movies, and would like eventually to become a real film buff. My ultimate professional goal is to win the World Series as the lead-off batter and 2nd baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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