Frankly Speaking

The first full-time preacher for the Church of Christ in Altus, Oklahoma was A. C. Huff. By the time he arrived in Altus in 1907, he was fo...

Brown, Douglas E. When Past and Present Meet: A Companion to the Study of Christian Thought . Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1987. In this dee...

A. C. HUFF "Abraham Conn Huff was born February 8, 1864, in Texas, where he lived most of his life. After some country schools, whic...

Huff, A. C. A. C. Huff was born February 8, 1864, in Halletsville, Texas, and departed this life December 8, 1967, at the age of 103 years...

McNamara, Robert S., “The Military Role of Nuclear Weapons: Perceptions and Misperceptions,” Foreign Affairs 62 (Fall 1983): 59-80. A co...

Silas and Willie Howell, Hudson and Elm Church of Christ, Altus, Oklahoma, 1936. Silas was preacher for the congregation from 1934 to 1937...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the word teach derives from an Old English term that means "to point out" or "t...

I read a few dozen books in 2012. (See photo above!). You can see some of those books at my Amazon list for this year . Almost all of t...

Every semester, I teach a freshmen-level course at Amarillo College titled "Introduction to World Religions." It's the toughes...

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...