Frankly Speaking

I put this post together for my HIST 1302 course (U.S. History, 1877-2000). It explains how in the 1920s the United States started becoming ...

Several months ago, I was asked to teach a Bible class at the Polk Street United Methodist Church here in Amarillo. The class wanted me to i...

Last weekend's Wall Street Journal contains the regular column by Peggy Noonan , one of my favorite opinion writers. Her most recent is...

Episcopal scholar Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr., has done a good job expressing the historic catch-22 of the Calvinist understanding of salvatio...

It's August 10, 2025. Public schools and Amarillo College will begin a new year within days. Educators are reporting earlier than stude...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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