Frankly Speaking

The following is a brief overview of the history and outlook of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. I wrote it in order provide basi...

John Allen Gano (1805-1887, pictured at left) was a protege of Barton W. Stone and served as a prominent leader among the "...

Alexander Campbell argued that a simple definition of communion  and the specific usage of that word in translations of the New Testament ...

In August 1861, Edmund Ruffin, a Virginia planter and slave owner, wrote: "The excitement of the war, and interest in its incidents, ...

Regarding the Lord's Supper, should churches invite all in attendance to participate, permit only members in good standing to partake,...

In their quest to rehabilitate what Alexander Campbell referred to as "the divinely authorized order of Christian worship in Chr...

Alexander Campbell concluded his 1825 series "On the Breaking of Bread" by pointing to early church history as a verification for ...

Brevard Childs was a first-rate biblical scholar, a real master of the various critical analyses so basic to his craft. But he did not cons...

In this fifth and final post, I want to say a few things about the future of microhistory. If recent discussions of theory and methodology, ...

If the method known as microhistory is both legitimate and productive, then what microhistories stand out as the best examples of this subfi...