Frankly Speaking

In October 1892, David Lipscomb set out to define what Churches of Christ should teach and practice regarding the roles of Christian women i...

The reaction to Meta's speech that night was a fond memory of hers for the rest of her life. A few days after the event, she wrote to Cl...

On Tuesday, December 15, 1936, Meta Sager spoke during a large banquet held in Minco. The occasion was the laying of the cornerstone for the...

Judging by the views of David Lipscomb, long-time editor of the Gospel Advocate magazine, the ten-year period from 1897 to 1907 saw the Sto...

From 1909 to 1929, farmers on the Great Plains, many of them desperate to make a living as agricultural-commodity prices fell, plowed up for...

Shortly after 1920, when Meta Sager sold El Meta Bond College to a con man, the school went out of business. Given the growth of public educ...

On November 23, 1930, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Meta Chestnutt Sager, then sixty-seven years old, presented a collection of relics to ...

Although there must have been some well-to-do members in Disciples churches in Nashville at the time, most of the people Meta Chestnutt wors...

The previous post ended with a question: If Meta Chestnutt grew up in a liberal, "digressive" Disciples environment in North Carol...

In his history of the Restoration Movement in North Carolina, Charles C. Ware reveals that during the decades following the Civil War, Disci...

Women teachers who went to the American frontier in the nineteenth century quickly gained a new identity. Often, they experienced a radical ...

Founded in 1875, the State Normal College of Tennessee was the result of a post-Civil War gift from George Peabody. Born in Danvers (now Pea...