A time for healing • Texas congregation grieves, prays, sings after deadly shooting • Why minister talked to me about shooting • One town, one church once again • The fires Down Under • At FHU Lectureship, Chronicle panel to address church shootings • We have already won this battle • Hero sacrificed his life for many • He died as he lived: serving the Lord • The voice of Keeble • The faith of French Africa • Delving into the history of black churches • Max Craddock, prominent minister and TV speaker in Canada, dies at 77 • Brecheen was ACU Bible professor and half of marriage seminar duo • Minister, college president, civil rights crusader Ron Wright dies at 72 • Editorial: We mourn the lost lives — and we celebrate those saved • Do our churches still benefit from our universities? • Should we read the Bible as a legal brief or as an invitation to live in God’s story? • Anthology traces 50 years in the life of a movement • Iranians find a Pearl of Great Price
In this issue:
HENDERSON, Tenn. — A “Christian Chronicle Live” panel will tackle the issue of church shootings during the 84th annual Freed-Hardeman University Lectureship. Speakers will be…
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — A few minutes after noon Sunday, my iPhone started pinging with messages from friends, alerting me to a shooting at the…
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — The West Freeway Church of Christ, a close-knit congregation of about 280, didn’t get to finish its Sunday morning worship assembly.…
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — Britt Farmer had his head down, focusing on the sermon he was about to preach. That’s when the 60-year-old minister heard…
FORT WORTH, Texas — At first, Glenda White didn’t realize that her husband, Richard, had been shot. When gunfire broke out during Sunday worship at the…
The gunfire lasted just six seconds. It was a shot from Jack Wilson, the West Freeway Church of Christ security team leader, that ended the…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Tony Wallace wasn’t afraid of dying. The faithful Christian talked often about heaven, friends and family members recalled at the church…
Since she was 4 years old, Maxine Vaden has worshiped with fellow Christians in Mount Vernon, Ohio. But when she was 10, the town’s Church…
Oh, what it would have been like to hear the voice of Marshall Keeble. The famous traveling evangelist died in 1968, so most Christians alive…
Ronald D. Wright, a longtime minister and elder of the Gray Road Church of Christ in Cincinnati and former chancellor of Delgado Community College in…
Max Craddock, a prominent preacher and television speaker in Canada, died Dec. 15. He was 77. Craddock ministered for the Strathmore Boulevard Church of Christ…
Writing for ACU Today at Abilene Christian University in Texas, Cheryl Mann Bacon reports on the death of Carl Brecheen, a longtime Bible professor best…
I love the song “God’s Family.” The chorus goes: And sometimes we laugh together Sometimes we cry Sometimes we share together Heartaches and sighs Sometimes…
The gunfire lasted just six seconds. The trauma will linger much longer. On Dec. 29, a man entered the West Freeway Church of Christ in…
Memorials Douglas I. Broyles 1941 – 2019 Douglas I Broyles, 77, of Jennings, La., passed away August 24, 2019. He was born in Kingsport, Tenn.,…
HONORED Larry Jurney, Dawn Shelton and Mark Thomas, with Oasis in the Desert Awards. The awards, given by Oklahoma Christian University, recognize people fighting to…
Churches of Christ enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship with colleges and universities associated with the fellowship during the 20th century. A substantial number of alumni…
The editors of “The Living Pulpit: Sermons that Illustrate Preaching in the Stone-Campbell Movement, 1968–2018” present this volume as a continuation of anthologies of preaching…
Edward J. Robinson’s newest book, “Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A History of African American Churches of Christ,” takes its title from a popular song in Black congregations…
HENDERSON, Tenn. — "A preacher school? Here?” The idea didn’t make a lot of sense to Bill Morgan. The year was 1994. Morgan, then an…
While I like travel shows of places I haven’t been, I especially love the episodes that focus on the places I have seen. For me,…