Seventeenth Street Christian Church

Seventeenth Street Church is in East Nashville…17 blocks east of the river to be exact…and quite close to Shelby Park.  The building is about 2 blocks north of where Shelby Avenue Church of Christ met.  Organized in 1896, the congregation first met in a white frame building of which I cannot find any photograph.  Micah Stirling Combs [...]

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Carnal Warfare: A voice from the summer of 1942

This from the August 1942 issue of Apostolic Times, a monthly published in Nashville by James A. Allen.  In 1941 Allen is in his late fifties.  He has been editor of Apostolic Times, a paper he originated and printed himself, for a decade.  He preceded Foy E. Wallace, Jr. as editor of the Gospel Advocate, serving in [...]

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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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Christian Scholars’ Conference 2009

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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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