Frankly Speaking

This is a second post about the article by James Thompson, "What Is Church of Christ Scholarship?" Restoration Quarterly 49 (Fir...

The most recent issue of Restoration Quarterly (Vol. 49, No. 1) arrived several weeks ago. For nearly 50 years now, RQ has been the schol...

It's a melancholy day for me. The unspeakable terror and tragedy on the campus of Virginia Tech has combined with a couple of lesser-kno...

I'll be traveling for the next few days and won't have much time for blogging on the road. I had planned to do at least one more po...

It's a strange irony. One of the great doctrinal misunderstandings--one that goes unrecognized and, therefore, uncorrected in some Chris...

For folks who couldn't care less, I promise, this is the last migraine post. I know there's a lot of information out there about mig...

And now for something entirely different: A few years ago, when I went in for my annual checkup at the doctor's office, I got some news....

Over the weekend, I took care of some housecleaning here at "Frankly Speaking." There are some new "Bloggers I Like" lis...

I was looking around yesterday when I stopped by the website for New Wineskins magazine. At the top right of the homepage, I saw something ...

Okay, last week I was a slogger (sloth + blogger). But it was Spring Break for me, and Michele, and for kids here in Amarillo, and a step-ki...

I mentioned a few months ago that in 2007 I planned to read, among other books, Marilynne Robinson's novel Gilead . Well, I'm readin...

According to a survey conducted in 2000, when Jews were asked whether Jesus was born in Jerusalem, 51 percent said "Yes." Not too...