Frankly Speaking

Like several of the the other small colleges in northwest Texas, Hereford College had its sports teams. The main sport was baseball. But stu...

To what degree were the Disciples of Christ distinguished from the Churches of Christ before the U.S. Census Bureau listed them separately b...

What follows here is a bit of material I might use in introducing the study of Christian history. . . . What are some reasons for a Christ...

Deaf Smith County Texas "Hereford Will Soon Be the Educational Center of the Plains." The headline of the local newspaper fo...

On March 6, 1856, J. J. Trott sent a letter from his home in Franklin College, Tennessee, to the Gospel Advocate  magazine in Nashville. He ...

In the spring of 1837, having spent most of the previous fourteen years in Georgia, J. J. Trott moved back to Tennessee. It must have been a...

In the fall of 1830, James J. Trott, a Methodist missionary to the Cherokee Indians in Georgia, was immersed into Christ at Overall's Cr...

This post summarizes and makes a few observations about Alexander Campbell's address to the students at Henry Female Seminary in Newca...

The map above is Indian Territory, 1885. (Click on the map for a much larger view). The Chickasaw Nation was located in what is now South-...

One idea I have is to compare the brief careers of three Christian colleges: El Meta Christian College (later, El Meta Bond College, 1889-...

The following article appeared in a Borger, Texas newspaper, August 4, 1964. I copied it from a transcript found in Planning the Route: Harm...

The expression Five Civilized Tribes emerged during the mid-nineteenth century. It referred to the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and...