Frankly Speaking

A few days ago, I told a friend that he really shouldn't bookmark "Frankly Speaking." So why would a blogger like me tell a ...

Sunny South School and Church, Minco, Indian Territory, early 1890s. Teacher Meta Chestnutt at left. At right is Kansas preacher D. T. B...

The Internet contains a good number of sites designed to help students of Hebrew.  The following is a list of some of the better ones for be...

"Divisions in North America: The Emergence of Churches of Christ and Disciples of Christ," Chapter 5 in The Stone-Campbell Movemen...

The following is (1) a transcript of a letter sent from Scott P. Squyres, Secretary of the Oklahoma Memorial Association to Meta Chest...

This being the last Sunday before Christmas, all of us have been recently reminded that God the Son took on flesh, that he physically became...

Orsi, Robert Anthony. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, ...

We were encouraged and inspired this evening. The Wills Family visited the Church of Christ at the Colonies here in Amarillo. This family ...

In important ways, Bruce B. Lawrence's book New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life (New Y...

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to share lunch and to spend some time with Dr. Bill Humble, well-known among Churches of Christ ...

Meta Chestnutt Sager (1863-1948) In the following poem by Meta Chestnutt, the pioneer educator makes clear her theology and conviction ...

Immediately after his conversion to Christ, during the early to mid 1870s, R. W. Officer cast his lot with the Baptists along the border di...