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Review Of Robert Cornwall's Book, "Called To Bless: Finding Hope By Reclaiming Our Spiritual Roots", Keith Watkins

Journal of Discipliana

Called to Bless provides a theologically informed case study, based on the author’s experiences in churches, as lifelong member, ordained minister, church historian, and ecumenical advocate. It is intended to show individual Christians, pastors, church leaders, and congregations how to find a fruitful balance between their past traditions and their Christian witness for the future while living faithfully in the present.

“Longing For A Better Country: The Stone-Campbell Movement And The Search For Atlantis”, John M. Young

Journal of Discipliana

Two people with Stone-Campbell Movement ties, Edgar Cayce and Maxine Klein Asher are noted for their interest in Atlantis. Their stories serve as reminders that the Stone-Campbell Movement is neither as uniform nor as unchanging as is normally assumed.

Review Of John Young, Redrawing The Blueprints For The Early Church: Historical Ecclesiology In And Around The Stone-Campbell Movement., Joshua W. Jeffrey

Journal of Discipliana

A review of John Young’s Redrawing the Blueprints for the Early Church: Historical Ecclesiology in and around the Stone-Campbell Movement

Carl Spain’S Waves: How A Powerful Lecture Ended Segregation In Church Of Christ Colleges, Dyron Daughrity

Journal of Discipliana

In 2018, the Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and Spiritual Action was founded by Dr. Jerry Taylor of Abilene Christian University in honor of a man ahead of his time. The Center memorializes Carl Spain, a courageous professor who, in 1960, delivered a scorching lecture at Abilene Christian's Bible Lectureship entitled: “Modern Challenges to Christian Morals.” The lecture publicly excoriated the college for rejecting African American students from attending it. This paper investigates the man and the lecture that tipped the scales towards integration in Church of Christ colleges.

Review Of John Young, Visions Of Restoration: The History Of Churches Of Christ, Stan N. Helton

Journal of Discipliana

A review of John Young, Visions of Restoration: The History of Churches of Christ.

Alexander Campbell And 2022: Three Ways He Teaches Me How To Live As A Christian Today, Douglas A. Foster

Journal of Discipliana

Alexander Campbell attracted both ardent admirers and determined foes during his lifetime, yet in the century and a half since his death he became largely unknown or misunderstood, especially outside of the religious movement he helped establish. Inside, descriptions were almost universally admiring, depicting him as an unparalleled preacher, writer, theologian, educator, and one of the most learned men in America.

Since publishing A Life of Alexander Campbell, I have sometimes felt compelled to start my lectures about him with the statement, “I assure you that I do not hate Alexander Campbell.” I truly don’t. Quite the contrary, I admire …

Review Of Leonard Allen's Book "In The Great Stream: Imagining Churches Of Christ In The Christian Tradition", James L. Gorman

Journal of Discipliana

Leonard Allen, Dean of Lipscomb University’s College of Bible and Ministry, has been helping Churches of Christ engage their history and theology for four decades. This book constitutes Allen’s boldest attempt to reveal the pitfalls of the anti-tradition posture of many Churches of Christ and, conversely, the riches of embracing the Great Tradition as an ally in the challenging twenty-first century context. Allen urges Churches of Christ to rediscover and reclaim early Christian Tradition, following the examples of Robert Webber, J. I. Packer, D. H. Williams, and others. Allen lays out a clear proposal for communal formation that deliberately utilizes …