Frankly Speaking

Charles M. Sheldon was born in Westville, New York in 1857. He was one of five children of a Congregational minister. Like a lot of preacher...

Next week, I'm supposed to make a presentation about the Christian classic,  In His Steps , by Charles Sheldon. At this point, I'm p...

Since I last posted about the life and times of R[obert] W[allace] Officer, I have been able to discover additional information about him an...

A few days ago I was flipping through the channels when I came to a live broadcast of the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. There s...

This post is a follow-up to the previous one which reproduces the obituary for Lota Venable Officer. It appeared in the newspaper serving At...

Related to my on-going project on R. W. Officer (1845-1930), I’ve made a new friend at the Atoka County (Oklahoma) Historical Society. Somet...

May, Henry F. The Enlightenment in America . New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. May says that before he wrote this book he went expl...

"To the eyes of the Puritan faithful, Scripture presented a dramatic panorama which moved from Creation to Redemption to Resurrection ...

Knight, Janice. Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. In this caref...

On Sunday, April 29th, I went to worship with my home congregation, the San Jacinto Church of Christ in Amarillo, TX. Nothing unusual abo...

What follows is not a critical book review of Stephen Foster's, The Long Argument.  At the beginning, I do say a few things about the c...

For a few years now, I've wanted to travel to two Turkeys. I've now visited one. That country in Asia? The scene of some of the most...