Happy Birthday Owen Chapel

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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A little help needed

A colleague and I were talking today about the early days at Nashville Bible School.  It is our understanding that a Nashville Rabbi was employed to teach Hebrew.  Whether this happened before or after the turn of the 20th century (when Harding left Nashville for Bowling Green) will determine whether James A. Harding or David [...]

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Save the Paper

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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Understanding Non-Institutional Churches of Christ: Some Suggestions for First Reads

I offer for this installment the suggestions of my friend Chris Cotten.  Several weeks ago I asked Chris to consider guest-posting to eScriptorium a short reading list on non-institutional churches of Christ (NI).  I told him there would be no parameters, no restrictions and no pay…well, ok, a meal at Wendell’s in West Nashville, but no lucre, filthy or [...]

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Lipscomb & Sewell

Some weeks ago I searched the Gospel Advocate for 1889 looking, of course, for CEWD, and saw this ad for Lipscomb & Sewell Printers/Publishers.  It takes up about half of the back page of the paper and ran in several issues.  Thought you’d like to see it.  The illustration  has at 6 or more classes going on simultaneously.  [...]

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DLC Honors Veteran Preachers, 1954

Here is another installment in my Dorris research.  From the February 25, 1954 Gospel Advocate, page 157, the men pictured are the “honor guests” of the 13th Annual Fellowship Dinner at the Lipscomb Lectures.  Each having preached more than forty years, the combined number of years preached, Willard says, is near 1300 years.  As one I [...]

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South College Street Christian Church

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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Henry Leo Boles

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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North Edgefield Remembered: Story of a Nashville Neighborhood

I contributed to this neighborhood history short sketches of three Churches of Christ (Foster Street Christian Church/Grace Avenue Church of Christ, Joseph Avenue Church of Christ and Lischey Avenue Church of Christ) a biographical sketch of Henry Leo Boles and short write-up of a Catholic aid effort under the name of Little Sisters of the Poor.
North Edgefield [...]

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Earl West Remembers C.E.W. Dorris

Earl I. West twice remembers CEW Dorris in his memoirs, Searcher for the Ancient Order: The Golden Odyssey of Earl I. West. Nashville: Gospel Advocate Company, 2004.
pp. 67-68:

In my quest for information on the restoration, I went in many directions, one of which was the home of C. E. W. Dorris on Caldwell Lane in [...]

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