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Owen Chapel Church of Christ, just south of Nashville, recently celebrated 150 years of ministry.
See this article for a bit more information.

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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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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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I will add to the Spoken Word page my three handouts and PowerPoint presentation.   The handouts are 1) A Basic Chronology of the Stone-Campbell Movement, 2) A Basic Bibliography of the Stone-Campbell Movement, and 3) tips for Researchers of the Stone-Campbell Movement.  Look for them shortly.

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A kind and generous friend passed along to me a sketch of South Nashville Christian Church, also known as South College Street Christian Church, South Nashville Church of Christ (all interchangeably) and finally, after 1920, Lindsley Avenue Church of Christ.

David Lipscomb is an elder here from the beginning until his death in 1917.  He preached to [...]

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When I undertook my Dorris research and decided to blog about it, I intended to use my blog as a means to publish some of what I found yes, but also as a way to solicit aid and assistance.  Already I have been in contact with several people who have found my by way of this blog and others [...]

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Congregants, friends, former students and fellow preachers, mourners all, assembled at the Grace Avenue Church of Christ on the winter morning of February 9, 1946 to remember the life of their minister, mentor and friend, Henry Leo Boles.
 
Just a month earlier, Sunday January 6, he preached in the morning assembly at Grace Avenue what would [...]

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