Frankly Speaking

This is the last post I'll do about Rice Haggard, for now anyway. I hope that this series helps to show that his role in early American ...

From the mid-1790s until the beginning of the 1800s, Rice Haggard was a preacher and leader among the former Republican Methodists. In Augu...

The beginning of the Rice Haggard story takes us back at least as far as December 1784, when the Christmas Conference of the Wesleyan Societ...

On Monday, August 4th, 1794, a group of about thirty preachers met at the Old Lebanon Church near Surrey, Virginia. There just a few miles f...

The "Life of Paul" class gets a lot of my attention these days. At the end of the last class session (on Monday), we broke with th...

Every once in a while, I like to write about a book that I've read thoroughly, one that I can recommend to others (or warn them about). ...

July 10th of this year will mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin . It's safe to say that he changed the world. During ...

Have you ever explored the "silent" or "unknown" years of Paul the Apostle? Most people remember three things about Paul...

I 'm told that the following story was recently posted on the Christian Standard website: Christ's Church of the Valley (San Dimas, ...

A few weeks ago on a Saturday morning, I sat at the kitchen table scanning the obituaries in our local paper, the Amarillo Globe-News. ...

John Updike , one of the truly great authors of the last few decades, died yesterday at age 76. He had been battling cancer and passed away ...

Of the courses I teach, the biggest challenge is "Introduction to World Religions." I don't know too many Buddhists; never bee...