Frankly Speaking

Among the most important pioneers in what is now Jackson County, Oklahoma, were the family of John and Susan McClearen. In 1885, the McClear...

Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to arrive in what is now southwest Oklahoma. But they were not in the region to stay. They were j...

The most recent issue of the Stone-Campbell Journal includes an article by Kelly Tyrrell titled "Strange Bedfellows: Jim Jones and the...

Acts chapters 13 and 14 narrate what is often called Paul's First Missionary Journey. In this story, the Apostle is accompanied another ...

At first glance, this title seems to contradict my previous post, where I argued that revisionist history is redundant because all historic...

I want to make a case: The expression revisionist history is redundant. It's like  tooth dentist . The origin of the phrase seems clear...

In 1919, the newspapers in Minco were mostly quiet about El Meta Bond College. The local school system and business colleges in the area app...

Campbell published his four-part series on the biblical Tabernacle in the Millennial Harbinger 1861, the year he turned seventy-three. By t...

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...