Frankly Speaking

In the records of the Disciples of Christ in North Carolina, Isaac Chestnutt appears for the first time among the delegates who attended the...

What is now the Baptist denomination emerged from English Puritanism around the dawn of the seventeenth century. Similar to the sixteenth-ce...

The Great Dismal Swamp, known by that name since the early eighteenth century, is a forested marshland in southeastern Virginia and northeas...

In a scathing article against the Edenton Baptist Church, where he had served as pastor and would eventually resume that role, Thomas Meredi...

A 1926 article appearing in The Outlook claimed: "Less than one hundred years ago the religious journals had more influence than any o...

In his 1909  Comprehensive History of the Disciples of Christ , W. T. Moore wrote: "The Disciples have no Diocesan Bishops, and consequ...

Query.--By Elder John Scott of Indiana. "Did the ancient Christians take the Lord's supper every Lord's day. Answer.--It is evi...

Long before the early twentieth century, leaders in the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement more or less agreed on two points related to the...

In his monumental 1974 commentary on the Book of Exodus, Yale professor Brevard Childs provided an overview of the long history in which bot...

In August 1897, Silas Kennedy established a congregation of the Christian Church at a community in the Chickasaw Nation known today as Davis...

The following paragraph might show up in my dissertation. It's my partial attempt to define and explain the project: While it does prese...

John Downing Benedict was born in Clermont, Indiana, in 1854. His family moved to Vermillion County, Illinois, in 1869, and it was there tha...