“To be a historian”: Quote without comment

This from Doris Kearns Goodwin via Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac” (with thanks to Don Haymes for passing it on to me):  To be a historian is to discover the facts in context, to discover what things mean, to lay before the reader your reconstruction of time, place, mood, to empathize even when you disagree. You read [...]

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The Bible and the Education of Children: Lessons from Alexander Campbell, RQ article by Samjung Kang-Hamilton

…most of the prior literature has ignored his [AC] understanding of the education of children in the Bible.  This essay will begin to close that gap and suggest ways in which an understanding of Campbell would help strengthen children’s ministry in Churches of Christ today.  The following sections will examine Campbell’s views on (1) the [...]

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Dictionaries and Lexicons

DICTIONARIES AND LEXICONS. None understand the value of dictionaries and lexicons so well as those who use them most. Every individual who reads any should, when reading, always keep by him an English Dictionary, such as Walker’s or Webster’s. An English word, the defination [sic] or meaning of which we are ignorant of, might as [...]

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Two Disciples websites, and a reflection on archiving

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 [...]

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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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Quote Without Comment: The Intellectual or the Devoted?

The Intellectual or the Devoted? Perhaps the major reason why the intellectual life is viewed with suspicion and distrust is because it is regarded by many as being an alternative to devotion.  The prevalence of this view that devotedness and the intellectual life are mutually exclusive shows that we do not really understand the nature [...]

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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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TSLA Genealogy Seminar, Saturday May 2, 2009

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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Lischey Avenue Church of Christ

Concerned about the spiritual welfare of the neighborhood children, Nell Joy (of Joy’s Flower Gardens) and Mava Smith canvassed the streets and taught them the Bible.  It was June 1907 and the little group would meet as the early Christians did, from house to house, for two years.   The generosity of the Joy family [...]

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Looking Back: Of Disclaimers and Critical Thinking

Installment 3 (see the two prior posts below) is from the 21 June 2005 edition of Occasional Espistles of Grace and Peace and is entitled Of Disclaimers and Critical Thinking. Given my profession I regularly surf church, parachurch, biblical studies and other like ministry websites. Invariably I run across disclaimers, usually on the links pages, that [...]

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