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As we turn the page next week, I think it appropriate to review the year’s literature in the broad field of Stone-Campbell studies.  Though the publishers seem to have scaled back the volume of new titles, several significant studies came our way this year.  I make no claims for thoroughness here; no doubt I’m overlooking something.  [...]

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Available here on Google Books.

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Genealogists in the Nashville area will want to know about this event:
Located in the buckle of America’s Bible belt, Nashville, Tennessee is home to several major repositories of religious records.  Denominational archives, publishing boards, and local congregations offer a wide array of research opportunities.  In addition to documenting de­nominational histories, religious archives also preserve information [...]

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A. C. Watters’ book History of the British Churches of Christ is online here.  Not only does this make what was a hard-to-find print book accessible, this is keyword searchable…a huge improvement over the un-indexed 1948 book.  Look around on the site, especially the site index for more material from the earlier days of the [...]

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Simply, reverentially, confidingly, they would speak of Bible things in Bible words, adding nothing thereto and omitting nothing given by inspiration. They had thus a clear and well-defined basis of action, and the hearts of all who were truly interested re-echoed the resolve: “Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; [...]

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DisciplesWorld’s website will change and evolve over the next few months.  Keep up with it all at Verity Jones’ blog here and get connected at the Intersection, a social networking site for Disciples and friends, here.  Change and evolution is the order of the day it seems.
It remains to be seen what an archive will [...]

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The summer of 2009 has been, without question, the busiest research season in my three years at DCHS.  It’s been terrific: lots of people are working on congregational history, personal family history and genealogy, scholarly articles and presentations, theses and dissertations, plus an array of books.
In one sense our stacks are my reference shelf, but [...]

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http://www.discipleshistory.org/catalog/alex.htm
Happy searching!

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Regular readers of this blog know that one of my research interests is Nashville’s Stone-Campbell heritage.  Judging from the folks who find my blog by searching for old Nashville churches like Foster Street Christian Church or Vine Street Christian Church or South College Street Church of Christ, I see I am not alone in my [...]

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With its organizing theme as The Power of Narrative, this year’s conference drew to Lipscomb University about 400 conferees to hear over 230 presenters in 70 sessions. Topics ranged from studies in specific biblical texts to theology to poetry to literature to history to ethics to science to ministry to teaching (and beyond). Presenters represented [...]

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