Article Author: J. E. McDermond | Brethren In Christ Historical Society

The Great Dechurching
Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

August 2025 p. 234–236 | Book Review

JIM DAVIS and MICHAEL GRAHAM with Ryan P. Burge. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back? Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Reflective, 2023. Pp. 242. $29.99 (US) Since the COVID-19 outbreak, people connected to American Christian congregations are keenly aware...read more

The Brethren in Christ and the LGBTQ+ Community
Three Views

By J. E. McDermond, John R. Yeatts & Lynn Thrush

August 2024 p. 151–263 | Featured

Introduction (From the Editor) In this edition of the journal, we begin a long-overdue discussion of a topic that has been and will continue to be highly controversial: human sexuality and gender identity. To what extent should we welcome and include LGBTQ+ believers in our faith communities? We at the...read more

Humble Confidence
A Model for Interfaith Apologetics

By J. E. McDermond

April 2024 p. 132–134 | Book Review

BENNO VAN DEN TOREN and KANG-SAN TAN. Humble Confidence: A Model for Interfaith Apologetics. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2022. Pp. 296. $32 (US) In his first letter, Peter encourages his readers to “Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the...read more

Reclaiming Pietism: Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition

By J. E. McDermond

December 2015 p. 449–451 | Book Review

ROGER E. OLSON and CHRISTIAN T. COLLINS WINN. Reclaiming Pietism: Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015. Pp. 190. $18.00 (U.S.) If you know anything at all about the Brethren in Christ Church, you probably know it has been influenced theologically by Anabaptism, Pietism,...read more

Conversion and Life Between the Resurrections
Belief, Belonging, and Behavior

By J. E. McDermond

August 2015 p. 263–284 | Article