Garrison Keillor, meet the Campbellites

Word on the streets of gold is that famed radio personality Garrison Keillor is bringing his show to Church of Christ wonderland, Abilene, Texas. He and his troupe will perform on the campus of Abilene Christian University. The town/city of Abilene is geographically on the far west fringe of the Bible Belt. People in the Church of Christ refer to it [...]

World Convention 2008

Thursday and Friday I represented HUGSR at the World Convention, a unity meeting of the three branches of the Stone-Campbell Movement (or American Restoration). These groups are: Church of Christ, Christian Church, and Disciples of Christ. The Nashville-based meeting is an opportunity for leaders to inspire each group to focus on common goals in [...]

Let’s Keep Talking

I recently came across an advertisement for the 2008 Global Missions Conference. This conference is held for Church of Christ missionaries, prospective missionaries, former missionaries, missions professors, and anyone who is generally missions-minded to swap ideas and spread information about missions related things. Anyway, what caught my attention was the list of sponsors. You [...]

Neo-Restoration

I just wanted to let you in on a project going on over at Greg’s Blog. A few of us are slowly working on a forum-style site for those interested in hermeneutics and theology-who hail from Campbellite backgrounds. Nothing big. But it might be a place of interest. The official page has not been loaded [...]

A Good Read

Yes I know. You don’t have to tell me. Since I publish this blog I am keenly aware that a majority of the recent entries relate to the Scarlet & Gray. No apologies here. But you can be sure that up until the BCS Championship game I will commit myself to a more ecumenical spread [...]

Hymnody

A few nights ago I made my way through the current hymnal of the United Methodist Church. Remember these people are the people who, since the Wesleys, have been doing hymnals and have been doing them well. They haven’t fared so well in singing the songs, but have done well in publishing them. Just a [...]

David Lipscomb

I am putting the finishing touches on my latest term paper, David Lipscomb and Racism. And by finishing touches I mean 1) proofread the entire thing and end up re-writing it 2) coming up with a title that is much less bland. I did think, however, that it might be appropriate to share some of [...]

1906

With this year being the anniversary of the official recognition of the split between Disciples and Churches of Christ, much ado has been made in attempt to unite the two bodies. Half way through this “epic year” I have mixed impressions.
1) My favorite thing of all is that we make the statement “we split off [...]

Sit Down, Sit Down for Jesus?

I have been slow to post due to my more busy schedule. I am taking 9 classroom hours, while working 15 in the Admissions Office. The classes are good so far: Systematic Theology A (Powell), Counseling Skills (Gray), and Hebrew (McMillion).

Last night Andrea and I attended Sycamore View Church of Christ. They are currently doing [...]