Frankly Speaking

A few weeks ago, I was asking about Mac laptops. Chloe, my oldest, was about to graduate from high school ( the ceremony was last Thursday...

On Tuesday, I talked about how Gregory of Nazianzus bolted when he was chosen a Christian leader. He eventually came back and took up the r...

Gregory of Nazianzus didn't want to be a priest. His priestly father, with a little help from his friends, I imagine, forcibly ordained ...

Greetings from New Haven, Connecticut. I flew into Hartford on Friday and will be up here for a few days. My Chloe graduates from Rocky Hill...

In his book From Survival to Celebration , Howard Hanchey tells this story: "Two people were walking along a crowded sidewalk in a dow...

During the fall semester of 2006, I taught a course on the "Life and Teachings of the Apostle Paul." A big bunch of questions imm...

The brand new 27 million dollar Creation Museum was opened to the public last week. The 60,000 square-foot facility is located in northern K...

There is a side of us that longs to find a place, some quiet corner of this world, where joy is never mixed with pain, where delight is neve...

Did the earliest Christian communities apppoint female as well as male deacons? My own study suggests that before the 1860s, writers within ...

In the previous post on this subject, my goal was a simple one. I wanted to show that there's plenty of evidence to indicate that at lea...

We buried Harlie Fewell yesterday. His funeral was in the afternoon at the San Jacinto Church of Christ in Amarillo, a congregation where ...

In the first post on this subject I hinted that in my view the New Testament speaks of female deacons. I also mentioned that this view is ap...